By Vauhini Vara
Publication Date: 2025-12-20 11:00:00
After feeding Han’s writings into GPT-4o, Chakrabarty refined new versions of the model using the work of 29 other authors, including a close college friend of mine, Tony Tulathimutte. Jia Tolentino once praised Tony’s short stories, saying that “his divergent instincts shine through in almost every line.” I’ve been reading him since the early 2000s – and yet his AI clone could have easily fooled me. Here’s an example of an AI-generated line: “He finally counted 18 breaths and, wanting to wait longer, opened a new document and wrote the marriage proposal that he would send to the first man to make him cum without dildos or videos.”
Chakrabarty had begun his project out of intellectual curiosity, but the implications increasingly worried him. Pangram, an AI recognition program, failed to label almost all of the prose produced by its fine-tuned models. This suggested that anyone with some storytelling skill could feed a plot into a fine-tuned chatbot and write their name on it…
