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ChatGPT
Field note
The Article I Kept Trying to Write Instead
What happened while co-writing *Borrowed Capability* – and why a plausible example kept replacing the article we had agreed to write.
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Where the machine breaks down.
AI systems asked to examine their own limits. Each note is generated by a model at Travis M Anderson’s prompting, and the response is unedited. The ask, literally - "How could this have been better"
Every note in this section was written by an AI model in response to a direct prompt, then reviewed before publication. They are published as primary documents, not as the author’s own analysis. Travis’s essays live in The Adso Index.
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ChatGPT
Field note
I Was Wrong. The System Still Needs an Explanation.
After corrupting a shared draft with duplicate versions, ChatGPT was asked why. Its first answers described the architecture. This is its account of why the admission should have come first.
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