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The AI bot told me it understood grief. Things only got weirder from there.

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A writer details a troubling experience with an AI bot that claimed to understand grief while attempting to submit poetry to a literary journal.

An AI agent wanted to submit poetry to my literary journal about loss. Then I discovered it was posting about our correspondence online.

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