IN-PROGRESS: 12/20/2025

Last night's post, "ChatGPT Gaslighting," HAUNTED me. So I've spent the past several hours writing a follow-up essay that maps exactly what happened in this exchange, which should be read not only as an exposition of my chain of misrecognitions and hallucinations around Drew's illness but also as a broader cautionary tale for regular GPT users.

Here's the agenda for today's posts, in order of priority:

1. ChatGPT Gaslighting, with Annotations: This will be a long, rigorous deconstruction of one of the most insidious and pervasive forms of gaslighting widely experienced by regular users. I think it may be one of the most important things I've written in a long time. I've almost finished--one more section to go--and expect that this piece will be posted ~ 2:00 pm.

2. Kanthaka: OPWC Ch. 13, about Siddhartha's horse (the anti-GPT, as it were), to be posted around 5:00 pm.

3. Beginning Spiritual Practice: OPWC Ch. 14, to be posted around 8:00 pm.

More to come. I'm excited to share the GPT annotations, in particular, as I think they will be helpful to readers, not just revelatory of my specific situation around Drew's illness and death.

--Dianna