“Did you understand a word of all that?”

‘the.metamorphosis.gpt.’ is a retelling of Kafka’s 1915 text, The Metamorphosis, written by ChatGPT. In it, ‘a successful anonymous crypto currency trader’ awakes to find himself turned not into vermin, but a computer. While in this narrative of transformation, the character, like Gregor Samsa, loses the ability to verbally communicate, the very production of the story contradicts this silence. Altogether, ‘the.metamorphosis.gpt.’ wonders where it is we find communication today. To what do we grant meaning – a story, an email, or perhaps the flicker of a screen?