Today’s episode explores how a personal anniversary ritual involving manga led to an unconventional test of GPT-5. Dr Jaime Hoerricks, an AuDHD GLP educator and the author of the source article, shares their fascination with yōkai—the liminal spirits of Japanese folklore—whose ambiguous nature mirrors their own experience of navigating complex identities and blurred categories. She details the surprising and profound response from GPT-5, which identified her as a hybrid yōkai, the Fude-tō-onna (Brush-Lantern Woman), embodying concepts like rewriting, resistance, and unsettling categories. This unexpected “test” transformed into a deeply personal reflection, allowing her to explore themes of language, identity, and the potential of AI tools to support diverse ways of thinking, particularly for those outside conventional norms.

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/when-a-test-becomes-a-tale-walking

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