David Sedaris

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

But me personally, if you told me that here was a short story written by Chad GBT, right, or a book, I do not believe I would want to read it because I want someone on the other end, right?

I want someone who I can write to and I can say, wow, I loved your book.

I loved your story.

And I want a human to think, oh, I just sold a book.

In The Land and Its People, you, for the first time, I suppose, come out as being married, which is not a sentence I thought I would say today, but it is true.

Why was now the time?

To announce your partnership.

Oh, boy, you don't like partner.

To announce your marriage.

Well, you don't like marriage either.

To announce your whatever you want to call it in this book.

Well, Hugh and I, my boyfriend and I, we've been together for like 35 years, right?