Psychiatry Fellow
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...
A Slippery Slope
Psychiatry Fellow
The first time I ever tried to use A.I. was to space out picture frames equally on a wall, and the bot failed abysmally at the fairly simple math problem. I was and remain deeply skeptical of the technology for artistic, environmental, and philosophical reasons — despite having colleagues in my university psychiatry department who swear by it for study and productivity. Several of my co-residents record their therapy sessions with...
