Will AI replace artists? Will we let them? Marian Ffarmer is an aging, world-renowned poet. Unfortunately, being one of the greatest writers of the century — which she is in Do You Remember Being Born? — is only a title, not a job. As she struggles with her financial reality, she receives a letter from a Silicon Valley company inviting her to make history by writing a poem. The catch is that she has to write it alongside an AI model named Charlotte.

This goes against everything Marian believes in, but sometimes you can’t afford to stick to your guns — literally. Feeling like a sellout, she finds herself in California anyway. Charlotte was made to write poetry, and while it wrote 230,442 in a week, it only likes two of them. As Marian interacts with the bot, she becomes both intrigued and frightened by Charlotte.

In a world currently obsessed with machine learning models, Do You Remember Being Born? makes us confront ourselves. What makes humans human? What makes art art? The novel is an exploration of the nature of language, art, family, and community. It barely scratches the surface of each issue, but it does so enough to make us ask these questions too — or at least confront them within ourselves.

WHERE TO FIND IT- Do You Remember Being Born? is available on Amazon as a hardcover for USD 14, or as a Kindle ebook for USD 16.99.

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