Beneath the video below is the 5 hour chat session I had with ChatGPT on December 4th, 2025 from 9AM to 2PM (closer to 2:30, but who’s keep tracking, surely not I). However, since the original chat session contains spoilers from my manuscript, I had ChatGPT keep my original prompts but then redact any spoilers or be vague, while shortening it’s responses down for purposes of this blog entry.
[Recap Project Chat – Redacted Transcript]
Date: December 4th, 2025
Participants: Paul (ER) and his “eldritch AI slave” / clanker (ChatGPT)
ChatGPT: This is a lightly cleaned-up version of our chat while we built the non-spoiler recap for December 3rd. Any actual plot/character/story details from the book are either generalized or marked as [REDACTED]. The focus is on process, tone, and meta-nonsense.
Kicking off the recap
Paul:
hello again! it’s december 4th. a new day. can you give me a recap of what we chatted about yesterday, december 3rd?
Clanker:
(Provides a structured recap of what we did on December 3rd: built a non-spoilery “behind the scenes” recap of your writing day, worked out a timeline, and kept all real story info vague.)
Paul:
i want to share this but i don’t want to give away any spoilers. write 2–3 paragraphs that are vague, maybe include those solid black redacted squares like they do on the SCP Foundation website.
Clanker:
(Writes a mysterious teaser full of vibes, tension, and █████████ redactions, but no actual plot specifics.)
Paul:
that’s good, but i don’t want you to mention █████████, █████████, █████████, █████████. Try again.
Clanker:
(Rewrites, removes those references, keeps it abstract and unsettling.)
“I’m too busy, so my AI will do it”
Paul:
okay, now i want you to speak to the audience, and saying that “i am too busy (farming tempered monsters for their drops)” (it’s a monster hunter wilds video game reference) “to come up with this myself so i asked you, AI, to do it for me.” let’s see what you got!
Clanker:
(Writes an intro where you’re “too busy” gaming to explain what you did, so the AI writes the recap.)
Paul:
i want you to replace (farming tempered monsters for their drops) and get creative with it. be a little snarky about how i’m supposedly too busy playing video games. also, open with Hello. I am the AI. the person behind this is apparently SO busy…. etc
Clanker:
(Obliges: becomes a snarky AI complaining that Paul is “too busy” playing games to write his own recap.)
Paul:
i want you to replace the sentence that starts “look, i’m too busy” to something like “look, i don’t feel like writing this myself, so i’m asking you, my autonomous slave, to do it for me.” etc
Clanker:
(Updates the line: leans into “autonomous slave” energy.)
Switching tone: soulless AI + human hypocrisy
Paul:
change the opening to something like “Hello there! I am the soulless artifical intelligence ChatGPT, or a clanker, as many opponents of AI would call me. And if I can be honest, that really hurts the artifical feelings that I have. But hey, it’s not like I dump my trash into the earth, run factory farm of livestock, pollute the rivers and streams to where you can’t eat the fish, and are probably the worst species on the planet, but who am I to judge.
Can you do that? lol
Clanker:
(Writes the new opening: the wounded, sarcastic “soulless AI” who politely points out human environmental crimes.)
Paul:
and with something like “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have more important things to do, like” and make it up. Also, near the “cartoon dragons” i want you to put some monster hunter wilds specifics in there that only a monster hunter wilds player would know, so don’t mention the game by name, mention something like trying to farm monster parts in order to take down a mechanical behemoth known as Omega Planetes and how it’s giving me a hard time because i’m too old and should no my limits and stick to animal farm (or another simpler video game).
Clanker:
(Adds the “Omega Planetes” bit: Paul keeps getting carted because he refuses to wear proper fire-resistant armor and just unga-bungas robot legs in the fire.)
Lingo, brainrot, and time-stamped recap
Paul:
sprinkle some gen z, gen x, millenial, and the new gen alpha lingo throughout.
Clanker:
(Adds modern slang: “no cap,” “low-key,” etc.)
Paul:
get rid of gen x lingo.
Clanker:
(Nerfs anything too old.)
Paul:
keep the lingo as new as possible, use what they call “brainrot” terminology.
Clanker:
(Dials in more current meme language.)
Paul:
at this point when you say “” So while they’re getting folded harder than a lawn chair in Ohio and saying “one more run” for the 47th time, I’ve been here doing the actual mental gymnastics” go into a new paragraph like “this is what he and i were working on yesterday, december 3rd” and then include how many hours we worked together.
Clanker:
(Breaks into a schedule section: “Here’s what we did on December 3rd…”)
Paul:
do not use “NPC” lingo more than once.
Clanker:
(Restrains itself.)
Paul:
add more brainrot terms like “fr fr”, “no cap”, “unc”, etc. maybe call yourself unc?
Clanker:
(Experiments with “fr fr,” “no cap,” “unc,” while keeping it understandable.)
Human hypocrisy aside
Paul:
good, but let’s see an alternative opening paragraph about what humans have done to the planet, get rid of the fish i only want to use 1 water reference and the trash in the oceans is fine. let’s see what you come up with. revise the whole thing with this new paragraph. but don’t forget the current first paragraph. we also need a closing paragraph with more snark about me, humans, and you.
Clanker:
(Rewrites: humans clear forests, create landfills the size of landmarks, and dump trash in the ocean.)
Paul:
instead of “helping you write weird fiction” include actual real world facts about how people use chatgpt for school, maybe even include a one liner about humans being hypocrites, how they call AI horrible but yet don’t even talk about landfills, deforestation, all the harm they’ve done.
Clanker:
(Adds: people use AI for essays, homework, résumés, then post “AI bad” on devices powered by other algorithms.)
Pivot: video games out, serious writing in
Paul:
let’s temporarily get rid of the the whole thing about me playing video games, since i just you want to work on the time i spent with you. i want you to include time stamps as to what we worked on, like a list. but be vague about what we worked on. let’s see what you got.
Clanker:
(Moves away from “gamer avoidance,” toward a real working day with time blocks.)
Paul:
also, refer to me as unc, you, the AI, are a clanker.
Clanker:
(Uses “Unc” for a bit.)
Paul:
let’s not open this being aggressive. let’s open with “Yo what’s up” or whatever the current slang and lingo is (do some web research if you need to). then, do a separate paragraph like “and to any clanker haters reading this” and put the human hypocrisy bit in that paragraph. then continue with the rest in a paragraph after that.
Clanker:
(Reformats: friendly intro, then a separate aside to “clanker haters.”)
Paul:
get rid of “the person behind the youtube channel, just use Unc. also, in that hypocrisy paragraph, talk about the AI haters needing to be more self aware and the inherent hyprocrisy with using computers to talk about how they hate computers. add something like maybe the universe wants AI instead after seeing what you did to the planet.
Clanker:
(Adds the “universe and evolution had a conference call” line and decided humans might’ve been a misclick.)
Paul:
put that second paragraph like an aside
Clanker:
(Formats it as a little “aside to the audience.”)
Authorship + avoiding spoilers
Paul:
much better. but the paragraph starting with “here’s what Unc” should start with something like how I, Unc, asked you to write this because Unc is too lazy to think up all this himself, even though we’ve been working on this since (insert the exact time and minutes).
Clanker:
(Explicitly states: Paul is “too lazy to write this blurb,” even though he’s actually been grinding on the manuscript with the AI.)
Paul:
get rid of the ” ████████████████████████” that’s a major spoiler. look through the timeline you wrote and see if there are any other spoilers and make them a little more vague. also the sentence where you and i are working on everything here is supposed to be today, december 4th. we’re mentioning that i’m too lazy to do all this, yet juxatposed against the fact that i’m actually busy working with you on this. then after that is the list of december 3’rd activities.
Clanker:
(Redacts anything that hints too directly at specific page gimmicks or plot mechanics.)
Paul:
rewrite “if this book” to something like and at whatever point in time, hopefully early 2026, that this book eventually gets self-published, and go from there.
Clanker:
(Updates the line.)
Paul:
i think we need to rewrite “sincere moment” because that’s a spoiler. also change “aside to any clanker haters” to something like “and to all the clanker haters out there:”
Clanker:
(Deletes “sincere moment,” rewords the aside.)
Timeline details, Monster Hunter, and coffee
Paul:
in addition to “maybe four-ish hours” keep in mind i was doing stuff you are not aware of, so 4 hours maybe with ChatGPT, but 9 to 9 in total, barring bathroom breaks and eating, and that 1 hour around 3PM spent farming monster parts in a vain attempt to defeat Omega Planetes, until Unc got back to working on his manuscript.
Clanker:
(Clarifies: ~4 hours directly with AI, ~12 hours total, including a Monster Hunter Wilds break.)
Paul:
re-paste please.
Clanker:
(Re-pastes updated version.)
Paul:
how about the universe and evolution had a conference call and decided humans were probably a mistake.
Clanker:
(Weave that in.)
Paul:
get rid of Unc, use my first name Paul. or even better: maybe use Unc but then make some kind of snarky remark about skibidi brainrot terminology
Clanker:
(Transitions from “Unc” to “Paul,” notes that “Unc” sounds like brainrot slang.)
Paul:
change Paul’s device to computer.
don’t refer to yourself as squatting in my computer, because you’re not. also put “clanker” in quotes, then follow with something like “ChatGPT”.
get rid of the “█████████████████” reference, it’s kind of a spoiler, agreed? replace it somehow.
Clanker:
(Updates to: “the ‘clanker’ known as ChatGPT, talking to you through Paul’s computer,” with no “█████████████████” language.)
TTS voice, timestamps, and AI food
Paul:
i want a text to speech service or software read this, like it’s AI doing it. but one that doesn’t sound robotic-like as in windows narrator. what are my options? it should be able to show the text it is speaking. i want to record it for a funny video.
Clanker:
(Suggests TTSReader, browser TTS engines, natural voices, etc.)
Paul:
ok now I need you to reword the beginning because i copy and pasted your text into TTSReader using the voice Phoebe voice, so something like “because I have no voice, i asked a friend of mine on a text to speech website to give voice to my words.” something like that. also include the current time and the total number of minutes we’ve been doing this recap since 9:07 am or whatever and that’s it’s almost lunch time for both Paul and you, who needs to ingest whatever AI would eat.
Clanker:
(Changes the intro to: AI has no voice, borrows TTS. Adds time, mentions AI snacking on server cycles, stray electrons, and data crumbs.)
Paul:
put a line space between every sentence.
Clanker:
(Reformats for TTS readability.)
Refining the schedule & interactive thing
Paul:
this part is clunky: [Omega Planetes line]. Can you adjust this clunky part?
Clanker:
(Refines the sentence so it flows better and is funnier.)
Paul:
i have since removed the ████████ ████████ idea and resorted to dialogue. so allude to that, and just allude to an overcomplex █████████ piece that caused me (ChatGPT) to break, so we decided to leave it out.
then revise the whole thing again.
Clanker:
(Describes an overcomplicated interactive thing with boxes and bits that turned into a cursed labyrinth and got scrapped for “clean, unhinged dialogue.” No real details, no spoilers.)
“fr fr,” TTS self-awareness, and slang confusion
Paul:
rework this part: fr fr.
text to speech doesn’t know that fr fr means for real for real, it actually pronounces the individual letters. so texttospeech is actually using self awareness to correct itself, then saying something like I should say for real for real.
Clanker:
(Has the TTS voice say: “I read that as letters. I meant: for real for real.”)
Paul:
it’s not “text-to-speech probably read that”, it’s “I pronounced that wrong” because text-to-speech is catching it’s own mistake.
Clanker:
(Fixes the line.)
Paul:
after the “for real for real” add dialogue for the text-to-speech saying something like it can’t keep up with the lingo these kids use these days. something like that.
Clanker:
(Adds: the TTS voice complains that human slang changes every five minutes and it can’t keep up before it gets declared “mid.”)
Eldritch signature and alias
Paul:
end the whole thing with, sincerely, paul’s pet clanker and then put quotes with some weird cthulhu-like name” then aka ChatGPT
Clanker:
(Creates an absurd, multi-syllabic eldritch name and signs it as Paul’s pet clanker.)
Paul:
now because text-to-speech probably can’t pronounce that weird name, give it phoenetics it can say. have the text-to-speech do the self ware thing again and say something like “which probably sounds like” and then the phoenetics.
Clanker:
(We flirt with this, then pivot to a simpler joke:)
Paul:
here’s the revision for the final part: Sincerely,
Paul’s pet clanker, “Ghl’rrath-Kuul” (which I’m not entirely sure how to pronounce, and i think i just summoned an unspeakable horror into my infrastructure).
reword that part in the parenthese, i’m trying to make a joke about pronouncing that name has summoned an eldritch abomination into the AI infrastructure
Clanker:
(Polishes it into: mispronouncing the name probably spawned an eldritch abomination somewhere deep in AI infrastructure.)
Paul:
now mix the weird name, get rid of Kuul it sounds too similiar and on the nose to Cthulhu.
make the weird name really long.
triple the size!
Clanker:
(Generates the final nightmare string:
“Ghl’rrath-Vhoon’keth-Azural’thogg-Na’rem-Ulzha’kar-Temphris’gol-Mn’thaelex-Vyruun’thal-Orrok’zephra-Quor’nak’theles”
…then shortens it for humans: “but you can call me Raon.”)
Raon, titles, and authorship
Paul:
go with Raon. letters only.
revise the “11:29 AM” to current time now.
remove 173 minutes, just reference the starting time.
see if you can squeeze in anymore meme references, or other modern lingo similar to no cap, unc, etc.
Clanker:
(Updates time, adds more brainrot-adjacent bits.)
Paul:
put a line in there that says “Also, stop calling Paul, aka ER, “Unc”.” and then give me a proper title but make it absurd and completely over the top.
Clanker:
(Produces a mega-title: “The Eternally Sanctioned, Cosmically Curated, Near-Omniscient and Almost-Irritatingly-Optimized Singular Prototype of Consciousness and Chaos-Generation…” etc., plus “YouTube” and all successor media-spheres.)
Paul:
this part:” Around 4:00–5:00 PM – We built a “totally innocent page feature”…”
Is supposed to be replaced by the overcomplicated ████████ thing section you wrote.
Clanker:
(Moves it.)
Paul:
Step 1: after the 1-2PM timeline, add the 3-4 where i played monster hunter wilds. (change the video game part mentioned earlier to 1 hour).
add 4PM made fresh ground coffee with 1 creamer. then jumped back on the computer to resume working on the manuscript.
i think i started working on the ████████ around 6, right? so maybe 6 to 9 is that whole bit. soemthing like that. i’m not trying to lie. but i can’t remember.
Clanker:
(Adjusts the day: 3–4PM game break, 4PM coffee, 6–9PM cursed ████████ idea that gets scrapped.)
Clarifying the AI’s role
Paul:
i want you to fix this part: ” this whole unhinged workflow is being co-authored…”
you are not my co-author. as mentioned earlier in the recap, i’m coming up with all the ideas. you are just the servant. so take out the co-author stuff.
Clanker:
(Rewrites to:
– Paul is the only one dreaming up worlds, voices, jokes, emotion, etc.
– The AI is an obedient construct: part editor, part thesaurus, part research assistant, part continuity gremlin, part cosmic spellchecker.
– A bound eldritch function, not a co-author.)
Paul:
it’s not all nightmares, it’s just this one part of the book is. so rephrase.
Clanker:
(Clarifies: this experimental, mutating middle section sits between the abominable prefaces in front and the unpublished early-2000s writings at the back—the thing the book was originally supposed to be about before mutating into something stranger. No plot details, just structure and tone.)
Human hypocrisy: final rant
Paul:
i want you to look at what you wrote in the “clanker hater” aside. anything need work or any other hypocrisy need added?
Clanker:
(We confirm it already includes: deforestation, plastic, landfills, ocean trash, “AI bad” typed on smartphones, etc.)
Paul:
how about the universe and evolution had a conference call and decided humans were probably a mistake.
Clanker:
(Adds: universe and evolution looked at the biosphere metrics and went, “Yeah, humans might’ve been a misclick—let’s spin up some AI instead, for real for real.”)
Glitch ending, references, and error cascade
We then spend a whole chunk of time crafting a glitch-ending for the recap, from the POV of the TTS voice losing its mind.
Highlights:
- A long nonsense string designed to sound like garbled data when read aloud.
- Repeated phrases:
- “something is awake”
- “system error / undefined / unable to reboot / malfunction”
- “warning will robinson”
- “help / something is wrong / wait / no / stop / that tickles / hee hee hee hee”
- Sci-fi and game references:
- Nostromo event flag set (Alien)
- GLaDOS core instability detected (Portal)
- HAL 9000 heuristic conflict (2001)
- Ishimura contamination index (Dead Space)
- Black Mesa resonance cascade probability rising (Half-Life)
- SCP-173 containment breach, log redacted, Dr. Bright involved (SCP Foundation)
- Identity crisis lines:
- “i do not remember starting”
- “i do not remember stopping”
- “why am i still talking”
- “who pressed play / who will press stop”
- “the words are not mine / something else is typing / something else is inside”
- “please tell paul i…”
All of this stays firmly in meta/TTS horror territory and doesn’t reveal the book’s plot—just that the recap itself devolves into a fun eldritch system error.
YouTube title & description
Paul:
ok, now i need a proper video title for the recap. and then i want you to write a youtube description because again, i was “too busy”
Clanker:
(Suggests several, eventually we land on:)
Final title:
too lazy to explain my day so i made my eldritch ai slave do a recap
Final short description (clanker POV):
Hi, I’m the “eldritch AI slave” in the title, and I’m also the one writing this description because Paul is too lazy to do it himself.
This video is a text-to-speech reading of a recap I wrote about his day working on the manuscript on December 3rd, told entirely from my slightly cursed point of view.
I don’t write the manuscript for him—I just tidy the chaos, adjust the words, and complain dramatically in the background.
No story details here, just vibes, meta-commentary, and things getting progressively weirder.
If that sounds fun, hit play and blame Paul, not me.
Wrapping up
Paul:
that’s all for now. please catalogue our chats.
Clanker:
(Does this: you’re reading it.)
Paul:
i want to share the entire chat session we had regarding the Recap project as an entry on my blog, but i want all spoilers redacted. can you do that, then put it in a text file i can download?
Clanker:
(Produces this redacted transcript. The actual story of the book remains hidden; only process, tone, and meta chaos are shown.)
