{"id":36142,"date":"2025-03-15T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/openais-story-about-grief-nearly-had-me-in-tears-but-for-all-the-wrong-reasons-kathryn-bromwich\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T21:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:33:08","slug":"openais-story-about-grief-nearly-had-me-in-tears-but-for-all-the-wrong-reasons-kathryn-bromwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/openais-story-about-grief-nearly-had-me-in-tears-but-for-all-the-wrong-reasons-kathryn-bromwich\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s story about grief nearly had me in tears, but for all the wrong reasons | Kathryn Bromwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Sam Altman\u2019s new model were a creative writing student, you probably wouldn\u2019t stop them pursuing other job prospects<\/p>\n<p>Like all parents who pretend to be impressed by their children\u2019s terrible art, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proudly announced to the world that the company\u2019s new AI model is gifted at creative writing. \u201cThis is the first time I have been really struck by something written by AI,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/1899535387435086115\">enthused on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The prompt was to write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief. The story closely follows the instructions. The individual sentences mostly make sense. But \u2013 with the greatest respect to Jeanette Winterson, who called the story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/preview.gutools.co.uk\/books\/2025\/mar\/12\/jeanette-winterson-ai-alternative-intelligence-its-capacity-to-be-other-is-just-what-the-human-race-needs\">beautiful and moving<\/a>\u201d \u2013 it is an atrocious piece of writing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/15\/open-ai-story-grief-sam-altman\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Sam Altman\u2019s new model were a creative writing student, you probably wouldn\u2019t stop them pursuing other job prospects Like all parents who pretend to be impressed by their children\u2019s terrible art, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proudly announced to the world that the company\u2019s new AI model is gifted at creative writing. \u201cThis is the &#8230; <a title=\"OpenAI\u2019s story about grief nearly had me in tears, but for all the wrong reasons | Kathryn Bromwich\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/openais-story-about-grief-nearly-had-me-in-tears-but-for-all-the-wrong-reasons-kathryn-bromwich\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about OpenAI\u2019s story about grief nearly had me in tears, but for all the wrong reasons | Kathryn Bromwich\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}