Is it Real or is it Murderbot?
Generative AI is really creepy. Some people are using it to “write” stories that they pass off as their own. I wondered how well that would work, since my previous tests of ChatGPT suggested its writing skills were poor. I decided to give it another try, by comparing its work to one of my own stories. Here is the story I wrote, a flash fiction piece that was published at Six Sentences . Katje He came to Amsterdam every two months or so, and as soon as he dropped his bag at the hotel, he went to Katje. He had found her on his first visit to the red light district, when his only requirements were that the girl was pretty and that she spoke English; as he went from window to window, they were all pretty, but Katje was the first one whose English vocabulary extended beyond a list of available services. She proved to be both compliant and playful, with crooked teeth that subtracted nothing from her charm, and a language learner’s nonstandard phraseology that struck him as borderline ...