Plausible Sentence Generators

Forthcoming in the September, 2023 issue of Locus Magazine.

6 min readJul 14, 2023

A woodcut of a gentleman at a writing table, staring down at a sheaf of papers. His head has been replaced with the menacing eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.” The paper is covered in the green ‘code waterfall’ from the Wachowskis’ ‘The Matrix.’ — Cryteria/CC BY 3.0, modified

I was surprised as anyone when I found myself accidentally using a large language model (that is, an “AI” chatbot) to write some prose for me. I was twice as surprised when I found myself impressed by what it wrote.

Plausible Sentence Generators

Forthcoming in the September, 2023 issue of Locus Magazine.

Written by Cory Doctorow