Amor Cringe

by K. Allado-McDowell

Amor Cringe explores the dually base and beautiful aspects of self-obsessed media culture. In a perennial bohemian style, an unnamed, ungendered protagonist travels from coast to coast and affair to affair, stumbling upon various moments of failure, absurd insight, and flashes of transcendence.




Half traditionally-written and half AI-generated, Amor Cringe is a "deepfake autofiction" novelette about a TikTok influencer that seeks God, created with the intention to be "as cringe as possible." The result is a painfully self-aware series of encounters that exfoliate the repulsive and fascinating aesthetics of romantic life under social media.

103 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 12, 2022

About the author

K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI, and are co-editor, with Ben Vickers, of The Atlas of Anomalous AI. They record and release music under the name Qenric.

Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are a conference speaker, educator and consultant to think-tanks and institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding.

Reviews

[H.L.H. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant premise for a book! Strange and disorienting reading experience, in that I found myself wondering whether a human or AI wrote a particularly affectice passage. I love a hot mess of a protagonist, too; just when you think they've made progress, they do something absurd that made my head spin. Loved it!

[Méli · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was certainly an experience

[E.R. Burgess · Rating 1 out of 5]

It’s a good title for this bizarre book

If this is AI writing, writers have nothing to worry about. It’s a really painful bunch of purple prose and comically, bad characters with no life, endlessly, drowning on brainlessly.