The post by Pamela Mishkin from The Pudding in 2021 is a creative personal essay that explores the author's post-breakup feelings and attempts to find closure by generating potential narrative endings with the AI language model GPT-3. It blends the author's real experiences with GPT-3's generated text, highlighting how AI can both facilitate and distort the storytelling process. The piece highlights the complexities of moving on from a relationship, the influence of societal tropes on our expectations, and the potential for AI to adopt human idiosyncrasies and biases.

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Key points

• Explores processing a breakup through creative writing prompts with GPT-3

• Blends the author's real experiences with GPT-3's generated narrative outputs

• Highlights how AI can facilitate storytelling but also distort truth/nuance

• Shows how AI writing can inadvertently adopt human idiosyncrasies and biases