Mieville is a wonderfully challenging prompt for ChatGPT. In the same vein, I would imagine 'The City and The City' would end up with a bunch of half-hallucinated forum-posting and reviews regarding Disco Elysium.
> Mieville is a wonderfully challenging prompt for ChatGPT.
Indeed. I'm doing a close reading of Kraken and have been amazed at the number of 'weird' entities and plot events that Miéville introduces [0]. It would be very easy to hallucinate a few more.
There are more than 100 passages in Kraken where Miéville names people, places and events that occur in other media or culture. For example, in a list of people associated with submarine technology, he throws in the name of the underwater stuntman [1] who played the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Again, it would be easy to hallucinate additional content.
[0] For example, a secondary character who was originally an ancient Egyptian burial slave-statue who went on strike in the afterlife, and in modern London is now the trade-union convenor for the Union of Magicked Assistants.
