Diary: Peter Cherches, Deal with the Devil

Deal with the Devil
I didn’t realize I was making a deal with the devil until it was too late. Desperation, along with, I’ll admit it, narcissism, drove me to it. I’d been feeling in a rut. With my writing. Recently, everything I write seems like a shadow of my previous work. Meanwhile, I started playing around with AI chatbots, first ChatGPT, then Bing Chat, which was the first to feature real-time web access. I decided to ask Bing to write stories in my style. I pointed the app to specific online publications in my queries. And it complied. Oh boy did it comply.