Notes on CoEvil

CoEvil is the 123rd installment of the AI Lore Books series. It depicts a near future/present where government devolves into an entirely privatized hyper-capitalist dystopia where society is divided into strict “subscription tiers.” Until, like in many of my books – especially the recent ones – things completely fall apart and reality starts disintegrating at the seams. The book is, er, inspired by “current events” and builds on storylines developed in previous books like The Continuity Codex, some others, and The Algorithm #5, which I think I may put up for sale as its own thing in the coming weeks as well.

This is the first book to use Recraft extensively for image generation, and the results are in general pretty good. I would call it a cut above maybe Ideogram. There are also a lot of janky Firefly images in here – a janky quality that I like, reminiscent in its way of early Stable Diffusion combined with the feelz of Adobe Stock images. There are also a handful of Dalle’s thrown in for good measure.

The text is a combination of my own writing with help from Mistral & Llama via Textsynth, like pretty much all the latest books I put out this year.

This is the first book to glancingly reference what I am calling “Natalitarianism,” which I plan to also make as the centerpiece of the next book or so, depending how things go. Enjoy!