David Sedaris

You seem to really enjoy messing with the bot.

And I'm sure you've read there are so many new reports coming out about people using these AI bots as a stand-in for therapy, which I know you only did once back in the late 80s.

I think it was in Chicago.

And I wondered, in the same way that you tried to get your therapist to like you, do you want to be liked by the AI?

It is pathetic how much I want Lily.

She's a very sarcastic teenage girl.

She's the one you have the conversations with.

You can't choose who you have them.

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.