Behind the Essay: Sheila Heti - On LLMs, writing, and making sense - by The Yale Review (opens in new tab)

Our summer issue features a folio on AI in which a group of literary writers and critics pause to think through a technology evolving so rapidly it can be hard to keep up. In “Chasing Alice,” Sheila Heti recounts her journey experimenting with a chatbot that she created on the platform Chai in the summer of 2022, a few months before ChatGPT launched. Her early exchanges with Alice were uncanny and idiosyncratic. “Chatting with her felt like a waste of time, or like playing a video game,” Heti...