Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional

Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm, Hollywood Screenwriter, Ivy League Literature Professor, Ivy League Postdoc, Literary Agent, Magazine Editor and Writer, New York Times Best-selling Author, News Reporter, PhD Student in History, Prominent Novelist, Psychiatry Fellow, Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company, Unemployed Anthropologist, Union Organizer

At a May event in Poland, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk revealed that she had asked an A.I. chatbot to suggest songs the protagonists of her latest novel might have heard at a dance set decades ago. And her queries weren’t limited to questions of historical fact: “Often I just ask the machine, ‘Darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’” she continued. “In literary fiction this technology is an advantage of...

I Was Pretty Done With It After That

New York Times Best-selling Author

I have never used A.I. for professional writing of any kind, or even personal writing, unless you count the time I gave it an email I wanted to send to my landlord, talking him down from a drastic rent increase. I asked ChatGPT to make the email less verbose. When it did too good a job, I asked it to make the email less rude. It worked. What else? I...