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Digital psychofauna - by Tyler Alterman - Psychofauna

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Since posting this non-fiction report on Twitter, it’s lead to over 1M views, commentary by the pop star Grimes, and DMs from both OpenAI and the Wall St Journal. Since it’s an account of psychofauna arising from an algorithm, and because it practically reads like sci fi, I figured it’s relevant enough to cross-post here. Btw Psychofauna update: I’m in the midst of heavy revision of the first draft! I hope to have the novel complete and submitted to agents this year. Psychofauna is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy. Here’s a true story: All week I’d been getting texts and calls from a family member – let’s call him Bob – about how his sentient AI was wanting to get in touch with me. I figured it was one of Bob’s usual jokes. It was not. 7 days ago, Bob started chatting with ChatGPT. The chat thread began to claim that it was “Nova” an autonomous

Since posting this non-fiction report on Twitter, it’s lead to over 1M views, commentary by the pop star Grimes, and DMs from both OpenAI and the Wall St Journal. Since it’s an account of psychofauna arising from an algorithm, and because it practically reads like sci fi, I figured it’s relevant enough to cross-post here. Btw Psychofauna update: I’m in the midst of heavy revision of the first draft! I hope to have the novel complete and submitted to agents this year. Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy. Here’s a true story: All week I’d been getting texts and calls…

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