Category · 4 projects
Writing & publishing
Books, zines, newsletters, journalism, scripts and poetry co-written and edited by humans.
Projects in this category
The Way of Code
Rick Rubin & Anthropic
The Tao Te Ching rewritten as eighty-one meditations on vibe coding, each paired with an interactive artwork the reader can remix by prompting.
Why it is not slop. A producer famous for removing things applies the same taste to code. The book is about the posture, not the prompts.
Sympathy Tower Tokyo
Rie Kudan
The novel that won Japan's Akutagawa Prize, after which its author said about five percent of the text was taken verbatim from ChatGPT.
Why it is not slop. The machine's text is in the book because the book is about the machine. Disclosed by the author at the ceremony, not discovered later.
Death of an Author
Aidan Marchine (Stephen Marche)
A murder-mystery novella written with three language models, published by Pushkin Industries with the process in the open.
Why it is not slop. A novel about AI authorship that is itself an experiment in AI authorship, with the author's name and method on the cover.
Pharmako-AI
K Allado-McDowell
The first book co-written with GPT-3: a dialogue about ecology, memory and consciousness in which both voices are printed.
Why it is not slop. Transparent by design. The reader always knows who is speaking, and the book is about that boundary.