2024-08-28
19 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
For years, we've sort of imagined this picture of a polar bear floating on a piece of ice.
Those have been the images associated with climate change.
My challenge is to find stories that show you how climate change is affecting our world right now.
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This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Susanna Meadows.
I'm an editor in the New York Times Opinion section.
My job is to bring writers into our pages who are grappling with big questions and who can surprise us.
I'm here today with a fiction writer I have long been a fan of Curtis Sittenfeld.
She's the author of the book Prep and more recently, romantic Comedy.
And she's here to talk about a recent piece we worked on together that featured a writing competition of sorts.
We pitted an original short story from Curtis that she wrote for the Times against a story created by ChatGPT, both in the genre of a short, lusty summer beach read.
Hi, Curtis.
Hi, Susanna.
So before we get into the writing competition, can we talk for a second about your relationship to AI?
So I see it as a huge unknown, not necessarily a positive unknown, potentially threatening.
And if I'm having a meal with other writers and the topic of AI comes up, it's like a bunch.