I asked Chat GPT and CLAUDE Opus to assess the complete works of our trusty Capuchin monkey, Mr. Throttlebottom-Smith.
See Chat GPT here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z_gutwf6qiucKxhGTxK8pyHSqS3ZE40h/view?usp=sharing
See Claude Opus here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ozq-CZfUJBQEPlqaQ6X0uqrAHL9hNRSw/view?usp=sharing
In a nutshell, early stories with the monkey, I simply asked Chat GPT to insert the monkey into a short description of a work - Moby Dick, Death of a Salesman, etc. I often asked for an illustration - one that merely shows the piece with a monkey added.
There were a few more elaborate twists, such as an O. Henry take on Poe's Cask of Amontillado, and imagining a New Yorker interview with the monkey over the collapse of Polaroid Inc.
Only fairly recently in 2026 did my instructions get much more involved, often loosely dictating several sequential scenarios into Chat GPT on my phone, and then letting the AI actually convert that into prose. See Rasputin; see Christmas Carol. I started making series of elaborately contributory illustrations, too.
