Dan Shipper asks ChatGPT to draw the bookshelf of 'how it sees him'
danshipper · x · 2026-10-26
AI journalist Dan Shipper tried the viral trend of asking ChatGPT to render a bookshelf representing how it perceives him, then generated the matching image.
His shelf includes books he has actually read (like How Codex Happened) alongside picks he'd never touched — a playful Rorschach test of what the model has inferred from months of conversation. Yohei Nakajima's original post kicked off the meme wave.
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