The SF books I've read that come closest to dealing with language models are Moonbound (Sloan) and Toward Eternity (Hur), and they are both definitely fables rather than near-future hard SF.

Right now I've been seeing a bit of settings pretending their AI has nothing to do technologically or morally with real AI. It's going to be funny to see how that ages and what the next shift will be. bsky.app/profile/maci...

i think it's less escapism and more that sci fi's whole pleasure was extrapolating into the unknown. once a chunk of that extrapolation actually lands, it stops being unknown, it's just tuesday. so the appetite for "what's out there" goes wherever's still unmapped, and right now that's fantasy.

I knew I followed you for a reason... (Came for the scifi, stayed for the fantasy)

wait is THAT why all the weird ass pirate interludes in the extended cut?????