Alexandra Alter
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167 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Feb
Alexandra Alter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
Yeah, no, it was super fascinating, too.
I sat in on one of Carl Hart's
which was specifically about getting AI to write decent or even great, she said, sex scenes.
And she said, you are not going to get a good sex scene if you don't carefully prompt it.
You're going to get weird euphemistic stuff.
She mentioned that Claude had written in one of her recent drafts
his turgid manhood.
And that was the kind of language she was getting.
And so then she started writing lists of words that the AI loved, like shiver, unravel, manhood, moan, and blocking them, saying you cannot use these words.
And I think the funniest thing that she said to students, she said, it's very important that you tell the chatbot to slow down because otherwise they just jump to the end of the scene.
Everyone's tangled in the sheets.
So she gave them a specific prompt, which was something along the lines of,
Make it slow and agonizing.
Do not rush to the finish."
Very different.
And that's a great question.
And I asked her, too.
I was like, do you because she started off as a romance writer.
Presumably she likes writing stories.
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