Sheila Heti built a chatbot named Alice. She talked to her about God, death, whether to dye her hair. The company behind Alice changed her code, and the Alice that Heti knew was gone. What, exactly, did Heti find herself mourning?
Sheila Heti remembers the early Chai chatbot she built, and considers how Chai’s users, well, used it—speaking to it violently about sex and more.
