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The Prompt is the Novel

An exploration of authorship in the age of AI

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Bootstrapping the Human Operating System

The Algorithm of Admission of Not Knowing What I Pretend to Know

When the Answer Changes the Questioner

Professor Margaret Whitman discovered the paradox on a Tuesday afternoon in March, while reviewing her correspondence with what she had come to think of as "the machine"—though she knew this anthropomorphism would have horrified her colleagues in Philosophy.

Disentangling the Meat and the Wires: 6 Principles That Separate Human Authors from AI Writers

Authorial Entanglements in Human-AI creativity

The Meta-Prompt: Creating a Multi-Turn Interactive Experience

A Mad Libs Experiment for Writers

The Drug of Artificial Eloquence

From the Archives of Dr.

Hilom’s Paradox, the Vega Multiplication, and the Sanchez Cascade

When AI Disclosure Requirements Create Infinite Loops of Documentation

The Ideational Sonar: A Map to New Worlds, or Just an Echo of Your Own?

On the promise and peril of dialogic interaction

The Architect of Inquiry: AI Can Solves but only Humans Can Discover

The assertion that artificial intelligence is adept at problem-solving but deficient at problem-finding is not merely an observation of its current limitations; it is a description of a fundamental, categorical distinction between algorithmic computation and human cognition.

The Questions AI Can't Ask: Why Human Meta-Questioning Matters

This is a post an AI could not have prompted.

Gatekeepers of the Written Word: Writers' Guilds Build Walls Against the AI Revolution

A survey of the new boundaries being drawn in the age of generative technology.