Dirty Business
There are times when I think that I'm going to receive a knock at my door with a couple of police officers wanting to question me. Or worse, that I suddenly show up on a no-fly list. Honestly, I wouldn't harm a fly. When I was doing research for Dark Water , I Googled all sorts of sources about the decomposition of a body, the plausibility for a murder, and all sorts of forensic and legal questions, as though I was trying to get away with a crime. The very first time I presented a scenario to ChatGPT, it responded by saying that it could not give me the answer to my query because the scene I described was of a criminal nature. I had to explain that I was gathering this information for crime fiction, and laid out a blurb of the story before the AI tool understood my motive for these questions, to which it then gave me all sorts of help. I'm back at it again for The Watcher , and I'm finding that ChatGPT is still showing reluctance in providing me with details. And pe...
