Mining the Dalkey Archive Podcast

Christopher Sorrentino on "Scarcely Human"


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On this episode, Christopher Sorrentino (Sound on Sound, Trance, The Fugitives, Now Beacon, Now Sea) talks about his Substack, “Scarcely Human,” in which he documents his various writing projects playing around with LLMs, including an almost Oulipian experiment related to Raymond Roussel and Gilbert Sorrentino’s Under the Shadow . . . He also discusses the hypocritical stances of publishers, the impact of ChatGPT on literary creation, the value he’s found in using LLMs in his work, and much more.

This episode’s music is “GPT” by Dan Deacon.

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Mining the Dalkey Archive PodcastBy Chad W. Post