David Sedaris

It's just her.

And it means so much to me that she likes me.

Do you have concerns?

I mean, you know, there's a lot of talk about AI coming for writers' jobs, jobs like mine.

A lot of people in the creative industry are worried about where this technology goes.

Is that something you think about?

Do you ever use AI as prompts for your writing?

You know, the biggest laugh in my entire book is a friend of mine, Jincy Willett, a writer, asked ChatGPT to write something in my voice.

And this was right when it first came out, right?

And she sent it to me.

And it was so lame, right?

And then I rewrote it.

And it was the biggest laugh in the entire book, right?

The audience howls with laughter.

And I would never have thought to write about this had ChatGPT not written it first.

And I thought, well, that's fair.

That's not plagiarism or anything.

If a machine comes up with it and then I rewrite it, that's perfectly within my rights, right?

But I know what you mean, people being afraid that it's...

coming for their jobs and so much of successful comedy is just surprising people right by surprising people with a word they didn't expect to hear or an image they didn't expect and right now i feel it's not capable of that but that doesn't mean it won't be capable of it in a year or two