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With the phone at his ear and his face in a flush, Zach, the silly intern, stormed into the offices of BradParksBooks.com. "Yeah? You tell Sam Altman he'd be nothing without us. You hear me? Nothing!" Zach fumed. "What does the GPT in ChatGPT stand for, anyway? Greedy Parsimonious Twits?" Zach looked at his phone like it had personally offended him. "Can you believe that?" he said, scoffing. "They hung on me! The nerve!" "Who hung up you?" asked Maggie, the clueless intern. "The investor relations department at OpenAI, the people who make Chat GPT. I thought they should at least send us T-shirts or something." "And why, pray tell, would OpenAI want to send us T-shirts?" asked Sarah, the smart intern. "Because, it turns out that four of Brad's works—Eyes of the Innocent, The Girl Next Door, Say Nothing, and his short story, The Nightgown, are in a database called Books3, which was used to train ChatGPT. We are like the paper from which they create their origami." "Oh!" Maggie exclaimed. "So can ChatGPT make me one of those little swans?" Ignoring her, Sarah said, "Wait, let me get this straight: that means some small part of what gets generated by ChatGPT is . . . a Brad Parks novel talking back to you?" "That's right." Zach said. "Then why doesn't ChatGPT sound like more of a wiseass?" inquired Peter, the slothful intern. "With worse grammar," Sarah added. "I don't know," Zach said. "But the next time I see Brad, I'm going to tell him he is personally taking the intelligence out of artificial intelligence. Zzzzing!" Zach and Peter exchanged a high five. "You realize there's a much bigger issue here," Sarah said. "OpenAI stole Brad's books—and the books of thousands of other authors—without their permission and without compensating them. And now OpenAI is worth something like thirty billion dollars and Brad is still driving a Ford and paying us peanuts." Silence briefly filled the offices of BradParksBooks.com as the interns stared at each other. "All the more reason people need to preorder!" Zach pointed out. Yes, that's right, Brad's long-awaited next book, The Boundaries We Cross, is now a mere two months away from publication—and is available for preorder wherever you buy books (buy links below). No less than Riley Sager, the magnificent New York Times bestselling author of The Only One Left, has called The Boundaries We Cross, "A full-throttle page-turner. Starts at a sprint and doesn't let up until the shocking conclusion." What's more, the interns can guarantee it was one hundred percent generated by a real human being, with no artificial inputs whatsoever. (Remember: caffeine is a natural substance.) And while AI may be taking over the world in ways no one quite understands, there are still few things more pleasurable than being carried away by a great book. That's what Brad remains dedicated to creating, no matter what ChatGPT has to say about it. Yours with real intelligence, The BradParksBooks.com Interns
  
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