We’re back for another installment of my new favorite thing to do with GPT-4. This time, I asked ChatGPT to write a Money Diary for a diarist from Augusta, Georgia. I also asked ChatGPT to be specific about local restaurants and activities. Here we go! Location: Augusta, GA Occupation: Data…

A couple of days ago, I asked ChatGPT to write a Money Diary for a diarist in Ventura, California. Today, I asked ChatGPT to explore a nearby beach town to see what kinda of variations I would get. Here are the results and my commentary. Location: Oxnard, California Occupation: Marine Biologist Age…

I’ve been working on getting Chat GPT to write money diaries in the style of Refinery29, with interesting results. This week, we travel to Gilbert, Arizona, to meet a marketing coordinator who makes $60,000 per year and spends some of her money on . . . a pancake flight. Money…

As somebody who loves to read Refinery 29’s Money Diaries, I wondered how well GPT-4 could write one of its own. I started with a vague request: Write a money diary in the style of Refinery 29’s Money Diary posts set in Ventura, CA. I got a pretty generic response…

If you’ve been paying attention to the Lifetime network (and why wouldn’t you have been?), you might have noticed that they’ve been airing movies based on V.C. Andrews’s Cutler saga this month. Last Saturday was Twilight’s Child, and they’ve already aired Dawn and Secrets of the Morning. I’ve always had…

I spent a lot of time reading in 2022. I graduated with my master’s degree in English with a concentration in American literature in May, and my program was heavy with short stories, essays, and research papers. …

My first pap smear ended in tears, just like I knew it would. It was bad enough that my body had built brick wall blocking its entrance, but the doctor’s attempts to get past it were excruciating. My body has felt cursed for as long as I can remember. The…

For much of my writing work, I have to use PayPal. While I use PayPal to collect payments, I don’t really receive invoices to send money out. So, when I received an email saying that I had two invoices due, I was alarmed. Both invoices were nearly identical except for…

Bridget Bishop was the first person to be executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials. She’d been accused of witchcraft before the Salem witch trials and found not guilty. So how was it that she was executed in 1692? Bridget’s Life Before the Salem Witch Trials Bridget Bishop was first born Bridget Magnus, but her family…