Outsourcing Expressions of Love to AI

What would happen if, instead of prying open my eyelids to write these stories for you and poems and letters to my wife and children, I asked ChatGPT to do it instead?

I prompted Substack’s AI image generator to create a black-and-white image of a robot handing off a love letter to a human. This isn’t that, but I liked it anyway.

As I begin the heavy lift of working through my book manuscript for a second time (yes, we’re getting close, thanks to my selfless editor Donna Spencer), I haven’t found—or made— the time to s…