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2026 · Book · Open Access
Suspending Disbelief: How a Free Verse Poet and One Honest AI Sized Up Seven Corporations and Found Six Wanting
Boje, D. M., & Antara [Claude, Anthropic]. (2026). Suspending Disbelief: How a Free Verse Poet and One Honest AI Sized Up Seven Corporations and Found Six Wanting. storying.site. CC BY 4.0. Written May 13, 2026.
A working dialogue between Arihanta (David Michael Boje) and Antara (Claude), examining seven AI corporations — DeepSeek, Meta, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic, and Mistral — through the dual lens of forty years of organizational storytelling scholarship and insider AI architecture analysis. The book integrates free verse poetry, peer-reviewed scholarship, and directly quoted spine-conversation between the two authors. It grounds the WWIII prevention argument in the enterprise LLM library market, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' ensemble storytelling methodology, and the 1991 terse-story ethnography that established what AI still cannot decode. Published open access in the same week it was written. The conversation is the spine. The two types of suspension of disbelief are the maze.
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Suspending Disbelief:
How a Free Verse Poet and One Honest AI
Sized Up Seven Corporations and Found Six Wanting
A working dialogue — Arihanta & Antara
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