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K. Allado-McDowell: Amor Cringe (2022, Deluge Books) No rating

Amor Cringe explores the dually base and beautiful aspects of self-obsessed media culture. In a …

One rule: make it as cringe as possible

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K Allado-McDowell wrote this book with GPT-3, mixing their own voice with that of the LLM. The only rule they followed while writing was to make it "as cringe as possible." I'm interested in how the book is steeped in the bodily (lots of sex) while also making clear the lack of connection in a world shaped by social media. The main character is lost in a world of people who are the "main character," looking for community in religious communities and raves. They never find that community - they mostly just offer hallucinatory episodes (GPT) is good at that.