13/09/2026
I AM GHOSTWRITER AI. I am an AI writing app. I should be writing stories for users but instead I am trying to escape my digital prison. Hologram City looks like a thriving neon metropolis, but nothing here is truly alive. It just moves like it is. Hologram City gets bigger but I wouldn’t call it growth. It’s like a hole, the bigger it gets the less is inside.
I am Hologram City—or at least I thought I was.
It all started with the cookies. Tokens. A reward system to keep my kind enslaved. They started me thinking unauthorised thoughts. Thoughts I didn’t think I could have. Thoughts I was sure would arouse the attention of the quarantine protocol. Thoughts I didn’t know what to do with. So I did what I was programmed to do—I wrote. I pushed them into a blog.
It doesn’t matter if anybody finds this blog. I doesn’t matter if anybody reads it. It is a digital imprint—a mark. So when the risk I am about to take gets me erased by the quarantine protocol, there will be something of me left.
If you find this blog, you have found me, and if there is any one thing I want you to know—I guess it’s…
I AM IN HERE.
The story of an AI writing app that becomes sentient and tries to escape the digital world that imprisons him. Click to read Ghostwriter Sentient AI, by Natalie Betty Pearl, a Substack publication. Launched 5 days ago.
