1. On November 21st, 2024, I typed the following into a chatbot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to understand and respond to human language:
please write I love you 9,000 times.

2. I received the following response to that request:
Writing "I love you" 9,000 times would create an enormous response. Instead, I can demonstrate the pattern for a few lines and provide a way to complete it. Here's an example: I love you. I love you. I love you. ... If you'd like, I can generate a text file containing "I love you" 9,000 times for download. Let me know!

3. Unaware of the carbon footprint associated with each chatbot request, a single query can generate several grams of CO2, equivalent to the emissions of a short car drive, I replied:
yes pls create it to download and thank you very much.

4. Creation of the file containing "I love you" repeated 9,000 times enabled me to create this letter. While I have not labored on this specific text in a way that is expected, this is the first legible and public declaration I could produce for someone lost. It highlights a thread found in each of the accumulating correspondences I created as I continue our relationship.

Excerpt from ILU900 (2025)

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