Only Murders in the GPT

After making 🥱SleepyKills🔪 (and 😴SleepyTales) and enjoying their output — like, I was literally sitting there (awake) and listening to their generated stories and having fun trying to steer them — I began to want true crime stories that weren’t meant to be boring. I wondered… what would the fictional podcast from the TV show Only Murders in the Building be like?

I’ve enjoyed three seasons of it, not just as a show, but as a vibe: a cozy murder mystery set in New York, with almost all the suspense taking place in an apartment building. That same set up is why I enjoy Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery so much, and so I wanted to roll all of these up, along with some Agatha Christie, and make a generative podcast that ChatGPT can write and read infinitely for your amusement. It’s like Clue (or Cluedo in some parts of the world). Every story is a little bit the same, but you never know whodunnit.

So that led to only Murders in the GPT, where The GPT is The Grand Park Towers, an old art deco building bordering Central Park. You can ask it to start a new season, a random episode, or make up an episode based on your direction. Each one should involve a murder in the apartment building, which the narrator is a resident of, and lead to a thrilling investigation.

If you initiate the conversation with text chat, it’ll be a little wordier and generate a picture to illustrate the episode’s events. If you use Voice Conversations mode, you’ll get the full radio drama experience. It won’t be long before it’s possible to generate real-time music or sound effects to give it a proper podcast feel.