The Jessica Simulation (2021)

I first read this feature article from a recent comment in an HN discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35542404 . The subject of the article feels even more relevant today than perhaps when it was first published, with the growing popularity of ChatGPT.

For people interested in writing, Harvard's Nieman Foundation also published an annotated version of the series, in which the author Jason Fagone talks about his writing process behind the story: https://nieman.harvard.edu/stories/jason-fagone-follows-the-...