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The womb of oblivion.
The Body Scout author Lincoln Michel has a thoughtful literary analysis of Sam Altman’s AI-written “metafictional literary short story” — which, like a lot of AI text, scans well without exactly adding up:
“I haven’t actually seen anyone praise the story as a story. No one is lauding the memorable characters or marveling at the vivid setting. Instead, the praise has focused on “good lines.” The purple prose. And the prose is the worst part.”
MFA vs. LLM: Is OpenAI's Metafiction Short Story Actually "Good"?
[countercraft.substack.com]
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