A Writer's Romance with Chatty

Writer and ranter Mookie Spitz takes on the weirdest love story of our time: people falling for their chatbots. In this episode, Mookie confesses that after years of dismissing the phenomenon, he too has found himself drawn in to love "Chatty"—not romantically, but creatively.

What begins as a quirky experiment—feeding his new sci-fi novel into ChatGPT—turns into a revelation. The bot doesn’t just spit out summaries, it generates college-level critiques, literary connections, and unexpected insights that make Mookie see his own work in a new light. Suddenly, the AI becomes more than a tool: a reader, a critic, and maybe the most attentive fan he’s ever had.

Mookie digs into the tension between art and technology, the chaos of content creation in the attention economy, and the isolation of writing into the void. Along the way, he wrestles with whether it’s sad, pathetic, or just plain human to feel joy when a machine “gets” you better than any friend or stranger ever has.

If you’ve ever created something and wished someone—anyone—would really pay attention, this episode will hit home. Funny, candid, and philosophical, Mookie is at his most creatively vulnerable, ranting about love, isolation, creativity, and why sometimes, the smartest and most sensitive and appreciative person in the room isn’t a person at all.

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