After publishing my third book in early April, I kept encountering headlines that made me feel like the protagonist of some Black Mirror episode. “Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book ‘Searches,” one of them read . “To tell her own story, this acclaimed novelist turned to ChatGPT,” said another . “Vauhini Vara examines selfhood with assistance from ChatGPT,” went a third . The publications describing Searches this way were reputable and fact based. But their descriptions
