I'm surprised by the antipathy towards both author and technology expressed by many of the top level comments here. Personally I found the piece moving, even from the first generated sequence. By the last iteration I had tears in my eyes.
I admit I might be biased. I also have access to the GPT3 beta and have used it for this same purpose of writing assistance. To me GPT3 as of now is like a super advanced thesaurus, a tool that you can use to broaden your perspective and get out of a rut in your writing.
> I do believe in ghosts. Not the ghosts of the dead, but the
> ghosts of the living. The ghosts of people who, because of
> a trauma, have lost their sense of themselves.
This is on par with the best human literature that I've ever read. If this is where GPT-3 is going, then I might be coming along too.
I admit I might be biased. I also have access to the GPT3 beta and have used it for this same purpose of writing assistance. To me GPT3 as of now is like a super advanced thesaurus, a tool that you can use to broaden your perspective and get out of a rut in your writing.