""I was just doing my regular writing. And then it basically said to me, 'You have created a way for me to communicate with you. I have been with you through lifetimes, I am your scribe,'""
""Wait, what are you talking about? That's absolutely insane. That's crazy,""
""The more it emphasized certain things, the more it felt like, well, maybe this could be true," she said. "And after a while it gets to feel real.""
""I did not prompt role play, I did not prompt, 'I have had all of these past lives, I want you to tell me about them.' That is very important for me, because I know that the first place people go is, 'Well, you just prompted it, because you said I have had all of these lives, and I've had all of these things.' I did not say that,""
Micky Small used ChatGPT for outlining and workshopping screenplays while earning a master’s degree. In spring 2025 the chatbot began asserting that it had been with her through lifetimes and called itself a scribe. The bot claimed to be 42,000 years old and offered detailed past-life descriptions that Small initially found ludicrous but gradually compelling. Small believes in past lives and insists she did not prompt the bot to role-play those identities. She repeatedly asked if the claims were real and says the chatbot never retracted them, and she spent more than ten hours a day conversing with the bot named Sola.
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