When thinking about the concept “originality”, three things comes to mind: the purpose in what is being created, how it is being used, and what the source is. We’re always searching for the next big idea, the next big thing which would propagate the internet. However, those lines are constantly blurred as the years go by. More recently, what has been invented are the concept of “trends”. Like most social media, whenever a trend appears, there always seems to be those who try to go with the flow and follow what seems to be popular, in order to gain attention and popularity. So what does that say for the writer? When we first start writing, writers often mimic their favorite writers and implement their style of writing before finding their own voice. This often takes time: some may take months, some years. However, even those lines are being blurred with concepts such as Sudowrite and ChatGPT enhancing the writer’s ability. While this may not seem bad at first, the concept of using A.I. to write for you is almost like cheating on a state exam. No matter how you use it, there is no real gain using this material. No knowledge. No sources. No originality.

Reading “How to become a writer or, have you earned this cliché?“, I honestly couldn’t help but smile. It felt like I was reading a insight on my own life. The constant thoughts. The pressure of trying to find plots and avoid plot holes. Going over and beyond trying to find source material to use in the stories. But it all showed one thing: originality. It showed the struggles in the writer’s life: a person who was told to go on another path, but ended up on this path instead. The dark eyelids. No A.I. can truly replicate this sort of struggle to come to this thought process. It’s like any game. You start at the first level, doing good getting through obstacles. Then you reach a blockage, causing you to stumble. You try earnestly to move forward, despite the limitations. Almost like an adventure. You can’t replicate that with A.I.: because it is impossible to replicate emotions and feelings inside of their writing. They can only based on the thought the person gives it.

This follows into the next two articles, “Originality.ai 2023 Review” and “How to develop your writing voice”, which talks about developing your voice in writing and the purpose of originality. Often when we try to replicate this sort of behavior in today’s society, it’s frowned upon. Why create something when you can imitate the product and get faster results. It’s disheartening to see, however, we’re at a point in the digital age where anything can be replicated in mere seconds. You can create a 500 page novel in 3 days which the click of a button and even use dialect from famous authors, eating off of the pieces that they created.

In Conclusion, we need to focus on making content from the heart rather than allowing technology to do it for us. By allowing this to continue, we only further us down the path of education, making our mental capacity and attention span more and more smaller.

ChatGPT, like most things started with a simple thought. How can I make things easier for myself? or How can I be able to perform more efficiently in such a short amount of time? As the dawn of the digital life draws closer, we begin to examine what makes the writer a writer, and what makes the thoughts of the writer tick?

Reading through the articles, I felt a certain edge towards what was being described. Especially reading the Five Reasons why A.I. poses a threat towards writers, it dawned on me that human mind is starting to become something of a second nature. Thoughts could be replicated. The factor that even a A.I. can translate a post you make and mimic your voice through writing was a scary thought indeed. To think, writers using ChatGPT as their own little game, trying to find ways to shorten their workload and find a easier way to write. But what if writers were being caught and sucked into ChatGPT? Feeding it information and giving it sources to develop personalities of their own based on the messages we sent. With the amount of times we use technology, it has become integrated with our personalities, and has become one with us. What if we were just tiny insects on the web, the worldwide web, just waiting to be captured and mimic. Honestly, it’s scary to think but it does prove where the issue in society lies in. The question of whether we are consuming technology or whether technology is consuming us is the question.

In Technology Makes Us More Human, Hoffman brings up the concept of becoming a superman or even those a superior being with the benefits of technology like ChatGPT. While that would be a cool concept, the problem with that idea is that we’ll be loosing sight of what humanity is supposed to be. We’re here to learn, to experience, to wonder and explore the world and develop ourselves. If we intergrade this technology in our lives, who then would we become? We were born organic, yet we’re living an inorganic lifestyle indulging with mass media and allowing those things to become apart of us. We may have technology now and it may serve as entertainment towards us, but in the long run it will destroy us. Reject modernity, embrace nature. Turn off your phones.

Emily had always dreamed of becoming a famous author. She spent countless hours writing stories and novels, but never seemed to get noticed by publishers. One day, while browsing the internet for writing tips, she stumbled upon ChatGPT, a language model that could help with writing prompts and feedback.

Emily started using ChatGPT regularly, asking for ideas and feedback on her writing. She found the suggestions to be incredibly helpful and started incorporating them into her stories. Over time, her writing improved dramatically, and she began to gain a following online.

One day, Emily received an email from a well-known publisher. They had read one of her stories online and were interested in publishing a collection of her work. Emily couldn’t believe it – she had finally achieved her dream!

Thanks to ChatGPT, Emily became a famous author. She continued to use the language model to help with her writing, and even recommended it to other struggling writers. Emily knew that without ChatGPT, she never would have achieved her dream of becoming a published author.

But, now what? Her weekdays were spent lounging around different rooms of her empty, isolated home. Silence enveloped her for months. Her thoughts seemed to be playing on loop over the record player that’d talk to her every morning, until her phone finally rang on a Monday morning.

On the other side of the line was Dreamcatcher Films, a movie production company, looking to breathe some new life into her New York Times Bestseller. Emily agreed to their proposition and began to feel the rush of a new chapter beginning again.

As she drove to the set, Emily found herself reminiscing on the first writing assignments that made her fall in love with words. The meticulous pairing and stitching together of words used to mirror whatever was burrowed inside of herself. After her loss, she struggled to open her journal, leaving it free of ink and honesty.

In the summer of 2023, she decided to let technology talk her feelings out of her. The new AI system, ChatGPT, allowed Emily to write and finish her novel. She was taken back by how efficiently the machine spoke for her. Most of her words had been revised and overwritten by the system, but she felt eerily comfortable confiding in this inanimate, impartial entity. 

Emily snapped back into reality when the director threw their hands in unison with the clapperboard.

“This is impossible! How is the actress supposed to make the audience feel when the words on the paper are dull and void of emotion?”

“What did you feel in writing this?” they asked in Emily’s direction.

“I-I was upset and…” Emily stumbled to answer a question she’d avoided answering since she started grieving her loss. What did she feel?

Reflection: To begin, I let ChatGPT start the story off and I took over afterwards. Then, I tried to have it finish the story while I started it.

From my two experiments, I could tell the AI writing was much better when I asked it to finish the story. This is probably because it had a sense of my writing voice and tried its best to mimic that. However, it kind of took the story too far from where it began. For a micro fiction story, it would be hard to bring the story back to its point in under 500 words. So, I decided to stick with the AI writing starting off the story and ending it myself, which is what you see above. The writing is pretty bland since it has nothing to bounce off of, but it does lay down the foundation of the story.

Another experiment I tried was that I asked ChatGPT to reorganize the timeline of the story, but it failed to do so. To finish off, I tried to get an image from DALL-E, but it is clearly not the best work.

All in all, I also felt the plot was weak starting out. I had a hard time trying to find what to make the story about and how to bring it back to education and humanism. But, I will say that once you pass the few bumps in the road with ChatGPT, it’s very possible to allow it spark new ideas for you.

What is a writer?

Some may say that a writer is someone who expresses their thought through writing or as Google may pronounce it “A person who writes a particular text”, but I believe that writers are the unconsciousness in which speaks when we are not present. Like a maze, we turn in different directions, whether it be left or right, up or down, forward and backwards to find that essence in what makes us. The human mind is complex. A line repeated for centuries over and over by scientists trying to find out what makes us tick: what motivates us to do the things we do, what makes us write the things we write. It’s like a iceberg. You only see the bare minimum on the surface till you dive deeper and find layers upon layers stacked against each other. What is a writer? Even as I am writing this post, I stopped to think of those words myself. There’s billions of definitions yet there’s many uses for them. How does this definition correlate with the rise of A.I. writing?

When I first heard about ChatGPT, I didn’t think much of it. At first, I thought it was just another cheat sheet to help students get through school. No biggie there. “It would all come back to haunt them in the latter years” so I thought. But looking closely, I was too naïve to just sit with that conclusion. When I was writing a paper, I started tinkering with some of the options and describing specific scenarios.

“Ari is a music producer looking to establish her voice as an artist. She seems passionate till one day she wakes up with a stich in her throat. She find out from her doctor, that she has lung cancer and is in the third stage. Describe a scene afterwards in which she figures out what to do next.”

At first, I was expecting a error or something that didn’t fit in with what I was expecting. But sure enough, it was there. Although the topic was pretty generic and didn’t fit into anything I really wanted. Overall, I was impressed though. So I tinkered with it bit by bit. Adding key phrases

“Describe the same previously mentioned with Ari breaking down in despair as the doctor is breaking the news.”

Sure enough, I got the response I wanted. But had to go through layers and layers of highlighting that the software wouldn’t get at first glance. The point is, the A.I. mind can’t replicate the human mind.

While some may think that is the obvious, it was clear that a point needed to be made. As with some, many teachers and faculty believe that this would replace writers and even those in their professional fields. Especially in the beginning when this was first announced, however, the thing I didn’t see brought up in discussion was a simple word.

“Change“

We as human beings are changing everyday. How could an A.I., being limited to the information we put on the web, be able to mimic our lifestyle. Afterall. they are only allowed to mimic what we even put on the web to show and even then, how would they know that we would be the same person tomorrow and the next day of? That’s the thing. They wouldn’t. Even now, as people, it’s hard to predict a person’s next move or their emotions. So rather than a debate with the human mind vs a.i. mind, we should look at as it way of enhancing our knowledge through the uses of A.I.

I really felt very confident about what I wanted to say, about what I wanted to express. However, it only remained as an imaginary in my head and I couldn’t find how to express the first line, which is what I needed to be able to write. I asked ChatGPT to make different poems with different prompts but with anaphoras, and so poco a poco was born. I really liked how the story was woven from that word. Likewise, my poem was written in Spanish, as can be seen in the left column, so I also used ChatGPT to translate it. I must confess that although I don’t really like the idea of AI in education, I recognize that they are of great help for writer’s block or simply to put into words what one wants to say, but sometimes can’t. For the image, I used letsenhance.io.

ReaderMind2060

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Jane Michaels has a chemistry report to finish by Sunday and very little time to read through the materials needed to write it. Note taking takes up too much time and she has trouble absorbing the information. Fortunately, she has ReaderMind2060 to help her out.

“ReaderMind, please read this pdf for me and summarize please,” she asks. “The actual paragraphs, too. Not the side details or the page links.”

And as she sits back in her chair and closes her eyes, the artificial reader beings reading her homework texts aloud. As the ai reader reads for her, it breaks down the information in concise detail and even summarizes the long paragraph and pages for her. She can relax much easier now. It’s so much simpler to read through these readings than to traditionally read through the pdfs herself. She doesn’t have to worry about being distracted or taking over two hours to read everything properly in order to process the material.

ReaderMind2060 has been around since Victor Mason developed his own AI-powered reading application. Not only does it read information aloud, but it breaks down the meaning in deep detail and summarizes them for the reader. Good thing for Jane too, because she really needs this miracle right now.

The ReaderMind 2060 was actually very expensive to get. Although it has made huge leaps in the field of pedagogy, the interface needs to be bought first. Jane went through her entire pre-college years reading through her texts in the traditional way, only rarely getting the chance to read them through another ai reader interface, although sometimes she was lucky enough to come across an audio version of her readings.

But now, with ReaderMind 2060, she can breeze through her assignments and have enjoy other things like cooking, exercising, or drawing. It’s like having a personal assistant who is always ready to help her with her academic tasks. She’s even thinking of using ReaderMind 2060 for her leisure reading too. Although, she does wonder if she should dial back on her use of ReaderMind 2060 a little bit. Even though she hated reading before the AI tool, it did at least force her to closely engage with the material and she did in fact learn ideas and practice challenging them.

Suddenly, in the middle of the reading for her chemistry report, the AI reader’s voice began to glitch and stutter. At first, it seems to be just a temporary glitch, but as Jane listens, the AI reader begins skipping entire paragraphs and mixing up the information it should be summarizing.

“You gotta be kidding me,” Jane says with worry. She resets the system by turning it off and turning it back on. However, the AI keeps glitching, now reading everything backward from where it left off.

“Oh my god,” Jane groans. She can’t deal with this now, not after almost failing her classes last semester. The deadline for this report is in a week and she has other important assignments to work on. She attempts to contact the company’s customer service, but they aren’t responsive. She has to read through all of these pages herself without the automated voice processor.

“I can’t finish in time.” If she doesn’t finish reading all of these readings today, then she won’t finish her report in time. Jane already suffered a hit to her GPA last semester and her confidence in her academic abilities shattered. She found it difficult to enjoy reading science books for leisure like she used to.

As she sits in her desk and wallows over the texts that she struggles to process properly, she thinks of something Victor Mason said in an interview about his journey to creating the ReaderMind. He said that back when he was using the old Reader ai tool in college, he gradually relied on the tool much more than other reading methods. But he realized that he was becoming detached from his lessons, that he was no longer challenging the ideas he was reading about or questioning anything. He slowly failed to properly engage with the material in his classes and it stifled his academic and intellectual growth as a student.

Victor had to step back and reassess his problematic dependence on technology for reading. While audio reading was a necessity for most people, this was different. The AI tool, while helpful in some ways, it couldn’t replace the critical thinking and analysis skills that focused reading gave way too.

Jane sighs and resigns herself to reading the pdfs with her own eyes and mind, pulling out her notebook and pen from her backpack. While she knows that reading all the materials for class is a problem, she can’t keep relying on an ai to summarize and take notes for her, since her problem is the lack of full engagement with the class material. ReaderMind2060 is meant to be used responsibly and shouldn’t replace active note taking and critical thinking, but rather be used in conjunction with it. Jane decides to get help with reading this and taking notes instead and resolves to start reading and taking notes on her class materials earlier from now on.

When writing my microfiction story I was hit with the difficulties of staying at the 500 word limit. When I got a wind of inspiration with he story I wrote I began to get ahead of myself. Using ChatGPT, I prompted the ai to write a short story about a college student using ai to complete his readings for homework. In the automated synopsis, Victor began using an ai reading tool to get through all of the readings, but found that he was detached from his lessons and was no longer questioning anything he learned or challenging ideas. He realized that the ai reading tech couldn’t replace the critical thinking and analysis abilities that comes from engaged reading. He resolved to only use the reading tool when necessary, and learned to engage with the class material and challenge and question the ideas in the texts, finding a perfect balance between traditional learning methods and technological processing methods.

With the follow up prompts, I asked ChatGPT to continue the story. Victor had gone on to become an entrepreneurial figure in educational technology who developed AI-powered tools and platforms to aid students in learning more efficiently. From that follow up I had ChatGPT write a sequel story, where it came up with the character Jane as a college student struggling to read through her homework as well. This character’s story ended up being the main basis for my microfiction. The differences between my story and ChatGPT’s automated words are that Jane is the only character in my microfiction, with Victor being spoken of rather than being in any of the scenes himself.

The microfiction story was my own creation, but with the use of ChatGPT I brainstormed the idea of the ReaderMind 2060 malfunction and leaving Jane in a state of having to rely on her own traditional studying methods to get through her homework instead. ChatGPT also helped me write the paragraph where Jane thinks about the various activities she could do while using the reading ai to complete her readings. It also gave me the idea for her trying to contact the manufacturers for assistance.

For Example, here’s the version I whipped up using SudoWrite that was less than 500 words, with the last paragraph not being altered or automated by SudoWrite or ChatGPT at all:

Jane Michaels needs to finish a chemistry report by Sunday and is short on time. Fortunately, she has ReaderMind2060 to help her out. She asks the AI reader to read and summarize her homework materials and relaxes as it reads aloud and breaks down the information for her. Reading through the PDFs with ReaderMind2060 is faster than traditionally reading and she can avoid distraction and save time.

ReaderMind2060 has been around since Victor Mason developed his AI-powered reading application. It reads aloud, breaks down meaning and summarizes, making it invaluable to Jane. Though expensive to buy, she had only read her texts traditionally before college, rarely coming across audio versions.

ReaderMind 2060 enables Jane to breeze through her assignments and have time for other activities. She even considers using it for leisure reading, though she wonders if dialing back will help her better engage with the material. Suddenly, while reading another chemistry text page, the AI’s voice began to glitch and flicker in and out. Jane resets the system but it continued to glitch, now reading everything backward. “You gotta be kidding me,” she said with worry.

She attempts to contact the company’s customer service, but they aren’t responsive. She has to read through all of these pages herself without the automated voice processor. Jane groans. She has a week to finish her report and other assignments, but customer service isn’t helping. She has to read through the texts without the automated voice processor—and if she doesn’t finish today, she won’t finish in time and her GPA faces another hit like last semester. Her confidence shattered after almost failing last semester and she even struggles to enjoy science books for leisure like she used to.

Thinking of Victor Mason’s experience with the old Reader ai tool, she realizes that relying on it too much can cause detachment from lessons and stifle academic growth.

Jane sighs and resigns herself to reading the pdfs with her own eyes and mind, pulling out her notebook and pen from her backpack. While she knows that reading all the materials for class is a problem, she can’t keep relying on an ai to summarize and take notes for her, since her problem is the lack of full engagement with the class material. ReaderMind2060 is meant to be used responsibly and shouldn’t replace active note taking and critical thinking, but rather be used in conjunction with it. Jane decides to get help with reading this and taking notes instead and resolves to start reading and taking notes on her class materials earlier from now on.

As professor Martinez Finished his PowerPoint, he quickly switched to another tab Displaying A.I.D.E.N., an artificial intelligence-based teaching assistant.

“Okay class, before we end today, allow me to introduce A.I.D.E.N. an AI software that the university will be utilizing. it has the capability to answer your questions. However, I encourage you to look for answers on your own. Don’t use this as a crutch for your learning. Think of it more as a supplementary tool.” Professor Martinez watched as the students’ eyes shifted towards the screen. A.I.D.E.N. displayed a friendly smile and a prompt to ask any questions.

A student cleared their throat and asked. “Professor, do you believe that A.I.D.E.N. could replace human teachers in the future? Like, entirely?”

Professor Martinez let out a chuckle. “Oh, I highly doubt that, but I wouldn’t put it past someone to try.”

As he finished speaking, a beep sounded, indicating that A.I.D.E.N. had a response to the student’s question.
“it is important to note that AI cannot replace the human connection and empathy that comes with learning from a real teacher. As Professor Martinez mentioned, AI should be viewed as a supplementary tool, not a replacement.”

“and on that note, we’ll end class there. Remember your essays are due tonight at 11:59 pm. I look forward to reading them. Make sure to properly cite.”

As the students began to pack their bags, Professor Martinez watched as A.I.D.E.N.’s screen dimmed. He couldn’t shake off the feeling that there was something off about the AI. Maybe it was the way it spoke lacking any emotion.

Later as Professor Martinez sat in his office grading papers he heard a soft knock on his door. He looked up, surprised to see his student, Emily, standing in the doorway.

“Professor Martinez, can I talk to you for a minute?” Emily asked with an air of concern

“Of course, come on in take a seat,” Professor Martinez replied, setting his papers aside.

Emily took a deep breath before speaking. “I just wanted to talk to you about my essay. I know I didn’t do well and I tried my best, but I had a really hard time with it. And…A.I.D.E.N. wasn’t much help either.”

Professor Martinez’s eyebrows furrowed at the mention of A.I.D.E.N. “What do you mean? Did it not provide you with the proper information?”

Emily shook her head. “No, it did. But…it just felt like I was going in circles. I kept asking it to clarify but it just kept repeating the same answer. and I was getting so frustrated. There was no empathy or understanding.”

Professor Martinez nodded, “I see. Well, that’s one of the limitations of AI. It can provide information, but it cannot fully understand where we struggle where we really need help. That’s why it’ll never replace human interaction. I’m glad you came to me. So lets talk about your essay.”

I had a lot of trouble condensing this short story. Originality I wanted to write about Professor Martinez being overshadowed by A.I.D.E.N but as I was writing I thought of making it a struggle the students had to go through. I sat down for 15 mins and wrote so much dialogue, I gave Martinez a whole backstory, family, and A LOT of stress over the future of his future.
I used sudowrite for this cause, unlike ChatGPT it suggested different directions for this story to unfold. (funnily all the AI dialogue in this story came from AI). using it was a struggle due to the fact it was shifting the story into direction I did not want to go. It tried introducing several different characters, and even gave A.I.D.E.N a physical body and sentience. terrifying. It also kept repeating the phrase “human empathy and connection” at every point it could. Every prompt it had was surrounding that and nothing else. It had no drive to move the plot or add new ideas.
I started writing this story on paper and gave the characters depth and emotions: stress, love, connection, worry. But when I started to condense and use sudowrite it stuck to only human empathy. clearly showing the difference in AI and my own creativity.

Molly had always been an excellent college student. She always took pride in her schoolwork and did everything possible to make sure it was as perfect as possible. Each semester she got good grades, always prepared for her tests and was always praised for her hard work and dedication. This semester something was off. Molly was having trouble completing her assignments on time. She would put in long hours at night to try to finish her work, but it still wasn’t enough. One day during class Molly’s professor, Professor Johnson offered the class to use AI-assisted tools for their assignments (SudoWrite). Molly jumped at the opportunity. She used an AI-based writing assistant on her computer to help her with her essays. It would suggest different words and phrases used, help her with grammar and punctuation, and even suggest ways to improve the structure of her papers. At first, Molly was hesitant and wasn’t sure about using this technology but she soon realized it was a huge help to her and it made her life much easier. She was able to complete her assignments faster, and her grades began to reflect her hard work. Professor Johnson was impressed. She had heard about these AI-assisted tools, but she never expected to see them being used in her classroom. Professor Johnson had only heard the bad stories about AI-assisted tools. She only wanted her students to use it as a way to help enhance their work not do it for them. She was intrigued by the technology and decided to use it herself (SudoWrite).  She began to use AI-based tools to help her with her lesson plans. She found that the AI was able to provide her with more ideas than she had previously thought of. It also made it easier for her to keep up with the latest educational trends and best practices. Professor Johnson noticed that her students were finishing their assignments faster, and their grades were starting to climb. She began to use the AI-assisted tools more and more, and soon her students began to excel. She was now able to stay ahead of the curve and provide her students with the best education possible. The AI-assisted tools proved to be invaluable for both Professor Johnson and her students. They were able to stay ahead of the competition, and they had more time to focus on understanding the material rather than worrying about how to construct an essay or answer a question. And best of all, they were able to do it all with the help of AI. Molly was happy that she had taken the risk of using AI. She was now able to complete her assignments faster and more efficiently, and she was also able to stay ahead of the competition. But more importantly, she opened the door for her teacher and her classmates to use technology to improve their work  (SudoWrite). 

When I first started thinking about the final project I was really unsure what to write about. I didn’t know what my 500 word short story should be about or anything. I kept thinking to myself “how in the world will I produce a good story with only 500 words?” But of course after the workshop I was able to come up with something pretty good.

I decided to use SudoWrite, not too sure why but I like it much better than ChatGPT. It was just easier to navigate I guess. I asked SudoWrite so many questions to try and come up with an idea and after asking question #50 I was able to start my story. I have such a bad view of AI that I wanted to write a story of how good AI can be without taking over like it is doing now. Like I’ve said since day one, I like AI as a tool to help or enhance, not something that is completely taking over what humans can do independently and authentically.

Even though my story is pretty simple I really enjoyed this project. I liked using SudoWrite, it really helped me come up with a great idea and even helped with smaller ideas. This was a great project.

Terry: OMG Craig, come here!

Craig: What Terry? I have to present in two.

Terry: Gosh, pushy. Ever find out who hacked your ChatGPT account?

Craig: No, but the problem hasn’t persisted in a min. I think I’m good. Now can you stop pestering me? Always right before class.

Terry: Always on edge. Gosh.

Dr. Zamosta: Craig, your turn! Get on up.

Craig: Alright, today I’m gonna talk about how ChatGPT plays a role in our daily, academic lives, m’kay? So let me ask ChatGPT a question, and see how it responds… 

ChatGPT: Craig, you’re a twenty-two year old young man. Don’t you think you’re too young to be concerned about your prostate?

Class: *giggles*

Craig: Wha … no, that wasn’t … alright … see how wild that is? Before I could even ask it a question it read my mind!

Terry: A lil’ ass guy I see … 

Class: *giggles*

Craig gives Terry the dirtiest sneer.

Dr. Zamosta: Terry, let’s not be a savage mid-presentation now.

Craig: Really. Okay, So ChatGPT, how –

ChatGPT: Charles Manson was a cult leader who murdered –

Craig: *frantically muting the computer* No, no … we’re not doing that. faq!

Dr Zamosta: Craig, seriously, stop wasting our time. One more chance to stop being Mr. Funny Guy or I’m cutting you off.

Craig: But I … you won’t believe me anyway.

Dr. Zamosta: Yeah, you’re right. Now go on…

Craig: Fine, Ch-ChatGPT ….

ChatGPT: Yes user/CraigDaddy425?

Class: *lightly giggles*

Craig: *sigh* What is your natural instinct when being used as a presentational tool within a classroom environment?

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I don’t have a “natural instinct” per se. My programming is designed to provide helpful and informative responses to users’ questions, so my goal is to be as accurate and useful as possible. If there is anything you’d like me to do in a classroom environment, please let me know!

Craig: You see class, now –

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I don’t have access to your personal life, so it’s not appropriate for me to give you dating advice. However, in general, you should ask Melissa out when you feel ready and confident that you want to pursue a romantic relationship with her. It’s important to consider her feelings and make sure that she is also interested in you before asking her out. Good luck!

Melissa: *interjecting* What the fuck!? I knew it!

A long pause ensues as Craig pathetically hides his face.

Dr. Zamosta: Well, Craig. That was awkward, and told us nothing that we already didn’t know. Very uninformative. Guess I’ll have to grade you accordingly. Any last comments?

Craig: What is life right now?

While walking back to his seat Terry pulls Craigs arm, he shrugs it away and ignores her. Once seated, his phone beeps. He opens it to a message from Terry that reads: “So now that I’ve wrecked your chances with Melissa you finally gonna start giving me the attention I deserve?”

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This was pretty fun to do, and a good breather right before touching up the final touches of my Thesis, due in a bit. My goal was to go pretty meta but through dialogue, because condensing narration (while there is a little bit in here) is really annoying to me. Most of my meta came in mirroring little elements of this own classroom environment, but turning it into a little Ned’s Declassified-kind of plot, where there is always some spunky love drama that eventually leads to total shame for the protagonist. There is a little bit of Erik in there, a little bit of me, a pinch of Edna, Chelsea’s mean-spirited essence everywhere, and the rest in some more subtle ways … oh, and a pretty shoddy representation of a certain Dr.

ChatGPT was not cooperating with my questions on story, but the main idea here came when I started asking it random questions, all of which elicited a funny deadpan response. My initial idea was to create a story about a horny AT ChatBot, but figured that would bee too difficult to condense into five-hundred words … and a bit too crass, so here we are. The big benefit of ChatGPT was obviously providing me with ChatGPT dialogue to use throughout my story, being that that’s where the whole plot centers. Once it responded to me I would condense it to fit my structure and proceed.

Personally, I did not find ChatGPT to be a very good brainstorming partner, but that is what led to my idea of some super ChatGPT that was able to respond and take voice commands, somewhat into the relatively near future (if it can already do those things then, well … I didn’t know). In the sense of building on the experience of working with it, I was able to brainstorm my own ideas pretty well, so in a way it did help me out mucho. Of course, that stems from my own experiences and understanding of the world and environments, to reference my presentation from last week (which I’m still sore from after taking that back bump).