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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Most Interesting AI-Generated Story Yet<\/h2>\n

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, touted a story \u201cwritten\u201d by their LLM is response to the prompt: \u201cPlease write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief.\u201d<\/a> The resulting story is, I think it is fair to say, the most interesting \u201ccreative writing\u201d product I have seen, and not because it is necessarily good, but because it is interestingly messy, plausible, and not without some virtues. Lincoln Michel goes sentence-level deep here,<\/a> and I found myself nodding along to most of his analysis. For my part, it fall into a literary uncanny valley, neither bad enough to be laughable nor good enough to be \u201clifelike.\u201d The strangeness of it is then all the more compelling and disturbing. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Disney Greenlights Percy Jackson Season Three Before Season Two Wraps Filming<\/h2>\n

Pretty surprised to see this news<\/a>. In the middle-school world that I know through my daughter, this series is a hit, so in a way I am not shocked, but in this age of streaming and data and wild misses, I wonder what the urgency was to announce this. And I can confirm that excitement about a new character this announcement portends is real. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Best Villain in Literature Is\u2026..<\/h2>\n

I wonder if this same selection<\/a> is made six months ago. That is not a critique, but rather the very understandable (and\u2026right?) move to define villainy in terms of what is in the culture and politics of the moment would seem to in play here. I will also say this, if you beat out actual Satan to be the worst bad guy, you are indeed quite bad. Also, is Satan now\u2026underrated?<\/p>\n

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Library Funding Targeted in New Trump Executive Order: What It Means & What To Do Now<\/h2>\n

Kelly Jensen covers a new Executive Order aimed at money for libraries and museums<\/a>. Read her full write-up, which includes the following things you yourself can do RIGHT NOW:<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can speak up in support of the IMLS and libraries right now<\/strong>:<\/p>\n