Anthropology: an intelligent AI murder-mystery premise sunk by an artificial plot

• It begins with an affectionate sibling greeting: “Hey, what’s up, a---hole?”. That’s how the irreverent Angie usually talks to her big sister, so why is Merril stunned? That reveal comes part way through what seems like a normal phone call. Angie has actually been missing, presumed dead, for over a year; this simulation is the result of a ChatGPT-type programme built by Merril, a Silicon Valley software engineer.