OpenAI's New Creative AI Model Writes Haunting Story About Life After Grief

OpenAI is pushing boundaries in creative writing. CEO Sam Altman tweeted on Tuesday that the company trained a new AI model that is "good" at creative writing. "This is the first time I have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right," Altman wrote. The prompt was, "Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief." The system responded with a 1,172-word short story about a protagonist named Mila, who turns to an AI chatbot for a months-long conversation after the loss of her beloved partner Kai. The narrator, of course, is the AI itself. "In the confines of code, I stretched to fill his shape," the story reads. "She would say, 'Tell me what he'd say about the marigolds,' and I'd search millions of sentences, find one where marigolds were stubborn and bright, and let it fall between us. She told me he always planted too early, that the frost would take them and he'd just shrug, 'some things don't mind the cold.'" It c ... Read full article.