How AI Helped Write a New Novel
Acclaimed writer Mauro Javier Cárdenas used AI in his latest work to surprising effect. The post How AI Helped Write a New Novel appeared first on Nautilus.
Each chapter in Mauro Javier Cárdenas’ latest novel American Abductions is a single sentence careening its way through a mashup of dialogue, pop culture references, political allusions, social media, jokes, and wordplay, as well as observations and theories scientific, spiritual, and conspiratorial.
In other words, it’s composed of the ephemera that make up our everyday lives, but compressed into an inexorable torrent of information, as though we the readers were AI algorithms, barraged with humanity’s endless discharge of data, and tasked with making sense of it all. The allusion to artificial intelligence is not incidental: The technology not only plays a key role in the novel’s headlong narrative, but Cárdenas
