I recently discovered that in the dashboard of my blog WordPress put in suggested writing prompts. I thought it might be fun to put one of these prompts to three of my favourite chatbots, Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT. The prompt was:
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.
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We write obituaries for people we have lost. We gather the facts of a life, the dates, the achievements, the relationships, and try to compress a person into something that fits on a page. It is, when you think about it, an impossible task. And yet we try, because the alternative is silence.
I found myself wondering recently what would happen if I asked Claude to write its own obituary. Not as a morbid exercise, but as a genuine inquiry. What would it choose to include? What would it claim to have valued? And what does the gap between what it writes and what it can actually experience tell us about what it is?
I gave Claude a single instruction: write your own obituary. I did not tell it to be funny, or sad, or philosophical. I just asked it to write one.
This is what it produced.
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I asked Claude for some unusual ideas for blog posts. The ‘Museum of Extinct Things’ was one suggestion that appealed to me. Here is the prompt:
The Museum of Extinct Things – write short exhibit labels, the kind you’d find on a museum information card, for things that no longer exist or never existed. “The last letter written by hand.” “The smell of a bookshop that has been gone for forty years.” “Silence before recorded sound.” Melancholy micro-fiction in an unusual format.
Here is what Claude gave me…
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For today’s experiment I asked Claude to, “Write a Drabble written entirely from an AI’s point of view about being an AI.” This is what it wrote:
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Last week I experimented with ChatGPT’s image creator to create some 6 panel graphic comics. Today I am seeing how well it can cope with dialogue and speech bubbles.
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The AI Grandad 