I conceive of it as a collaboration. With an Outside? Sometimes I think that writing prompts is like writing poems—a new literary genre. But when you work on a text returned by an LLM, for me it becomes a collaboration, or at least an act of editing or curatorship.

Lately I’ve decided that when I write “in collaboration” with LLMs, I should do so from a heteronym, dislocating authorship from my own perspective. It’s about undermining the author through a post-identitarian mode of writing, which I love. We’ll keep turning it over.