I spent some time playing around with ChatGPT, the interactive, stateful language model from OpenAI. I wanted to see how well it could read fiction for implication, especially speculative fiction. So I gave it excerpts from my novella “The New Mother,” and asked it comprehension questions about the speculative conceit and character interiority, as well as questions about where the story might be going. (Content note: the story, and the excerpts given to ChatGPT, involve mentions of violence done to children and sexual assault done to an adult.)
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