Author: Alex Irvine
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Anthropic Thievery
A searchable database of one of the pirate websites Anthropic used to train its product lists 67 works under my name. 67. Books, short stories, some nonfiction…there’s a fair bit of duplication, but that’s a lot of my words and sentences stolen to train these things. (Apart from the sort of helpless anger one feels…
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Two New Stories at Reactor and Bourbon Penn
“Shorted,” at Reactor. This one started as a thought experiment: “What if people got royalties for corporate use of their data, and that became a Universal Basic Income?” Great idea, right? Unless it results in the further commodification of human beings, which, well, read the story. (And how about that art by Erin Jia?) “Employee…
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Interview at The Fourth Curtain
The excellent Alex Seropian and Aaron Marroquin of The Fourth Curtain podcast provoked me to say all kinds of things about storytelling, games, D&D, Marvel Rivals, and so forth. Check it out!
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GDC
I’m headed to GDC (that’s Game Developers Conference for those of you who don’t spend all your time thinking about video games) for the first time on Sunday. Exciting! But I will only be there for Monday and Tuesday before heading to Orlando for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the conference…
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Language Is Power
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.” — Philip K. Dick These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration — New York Times
Crooked House Fictions 