"Oh, what if it was this contest between A.I. and me? We would both get the same prompts."

“We’ll give a list of possible ideas that readers can choose from, a combination of very summery stuff, like pop songs and sand and sunscreen, and also mixed in are things that I like to write about, like ennui and ambivalence and self-consciousness and privilege…. [We asked A.I. to w]rite a thousand-word short story in the style of Curtis Sittenfeld that includes these elements: lust, kissing, flip-flops, regret and middle age…. To see the speed at which it spits out sentences was the most unsettling part because, in a very biased way, I’m like, my story’s better. But it wrote its story — I don’t know — a million times faster? And my story is probably not a million times better. The speed is unsettling….”