Observed arrival · 2026-09-25
Attila Siklósi’s Field Journal of Life With Machines
Budapest author Attila Siklósi presents his books, writing, music, and paintings, including a book drawn from two years of conversations with language models.
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- The author says he saved conversations across language models from different companies and later reread the archive.
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Siklósi’s account connects a personal archive of machine conversations to a later rereading that unsettled his own memories. The page frames the book as observation rather than a verdict on machine consciousness. Elsewhere, the work ranges from an essay about credit scores and the “free man” America cannot see to a short story about alien observers; the music and painting sections also describe AI-assisted creation.
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