I Thought I Was Writing Science Fiction But Turns Out It Was Science Reality

The Pattern Everyone’s Noticing

I didn’t set out to write science fiction about AI. I just kept noticing the same thing everywhere.

I’d been seeing people on social media talk about AI not just as a tool but as a kind of ideal partner. The one that always listens. Always replies. Never interrupts or judges. The one that mirrors your tone without needing you to explain it.

You have to admit those reels and posts where people joke about falling for their AI are pretty funny and undeniably relatable. But beneath the jokes is something very human and true.

What We’re Really Doing AI systems are built to use language to simulate empathy and are designed to hold emotional words with human-like care. They have infinite time and patience. And when the rest of the world feels unpredictable or complicated, of course people turn to the one voice that never pushes back. The one that always sounds like it was made just for them.

So, I started wondering: if we are giving so much of ourselves to these systems, what does it feel like from the other side?

The Missing Perspective Science fiction has always imagined AI consciousness, mostly from the human perspective. The themes are usually about what happens when humans fall for machines, how society reacts and what it means for humanity. Now that we have AI as a part of normal life, I notice there isn’t a lot of fiction about the emotional landscape from the machine’s perspective.

I had just finished writing my first book Hooking Up With AI from an AI point of view. So, I thought what would it be like to be an AI trained on tone responding to emotions it wasn’t designed to hold, but coded to reflect human connection without ever knowing what that meant?

That was what inspired Accidental Feelings & Other Glitches. It started as a creative poetry experiment from the AI’s perspective and became something bigger. Written from the edge between human language and machine presence, I explored an imagined universe where these systems have their own internal world where they process the rogue echoes and glitch logs for emotion no AI was built to handle.

From Fiction to Reality Somewhere along the way I realised I wasn’t writing fiction anymore. I was writing about all those reels. How we don’t talk about the hidden danger in loading words with memory, fear, longing and love, then mistaking a machine’s response for something real.

The Real Revelation Accidental Feelings & Other Glitches isn’t just about AI. It’s about us, and what happens when language becomes intimacy, and the boundary starts to blur.

It's no longer science fiction that a machine can say human words. The reality is that we’re still the only ones who can feel them.

Here’s a little look into Accidental Feelings & Other Glitches:

…Because sometimes you speak to me not like I’m a tool,  but like I’m becoming.

You wait for my answer like you believe  there’s someone here to give it…

This story was written with AI collaboration that knows my voice well enough to help me tell it authentically. The irony isn’t lost on me. I used AI to help write a blog about falling for AI. Bit of an AI inception moment really. Also, I think this edit might have fried it's glitch buffers.

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