Exercise 1: Your First Interview Inversion

Open any LLM (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whatever is handy) and paste this prompt:

Interview me, I decided to read a book about LLMs and human creativity, let's discover why. Ask one question at a time, no more than 5, then provide a summary analysis.

Answer the five questions honestly, then read the summary.

Notice what happens. You are the topic. The LLM has no idea why you are interested in this. It cannot cheat, because the answer is not in its training data; the answer is inside you. Every word of signal comes from you. The LLM provides the probing and the structure. You provide the content.

Read the summary when it arrives. Some of it will be obvious. But look for the part that surprises you: a connection you had not made between two of your own answers, a reason you had not put into words before, a motivation you had not named.

That is the interview inversion producing something neither you nor the LLM could have produced alone.