Re: AI SF

On 12/14/2024 11:11 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vjl7aj$6qs5$4@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 15/12/24 11:28, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vjkh7q$3k9p$2@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/14/2024 11:44 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

One guy is hmm, curating?,  AI SF stories on substack.  Looks like
he's acting as a movie producer: "Get me a script about..."
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Prompt: Write a 10,000 word1 short story about an asetroid
miner marooned on an asteroid. Narrate in first person. The
miner has a wry, ironic, and detached demeanor, but he
really pines for his family back home. He has a number of
robots to keep him company, including one which helps him
with sexual needs, but as he becomes more aware of how
inextricably marooned he is, he starts to think about
descending through Dante's circles of hell. The overall
message is one of increasing existential despair, akin to
Sartres No Exit. Now, this is a science fiction story, but
I want it to be a well-written, *literary* science fiction
story--think something akin to Alastair Reynolds' style.
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https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle
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No, I haven't read it.  I'm surfing at the bagel shop.  Maybe later.

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re you sure this isn't a prompt for an AI? I'm seeing a *lot* of
badly written AI stories on Youtube, read by an AI voice, and
illustrated with AI images.
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?  I thought it was pretty clearly a prompt, given that it starts
with "Prompt:".

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I think pt means promotion. (Advertisement.)

 Ah, OK.  Don't think I've heard that usage.  I still haven't gone back yet,
but I didn't get that impression.

"Writing prompts" are a thing for human writers too, particularly
in fanfiction.
I don't know who or what the creator of this prompt was hoping would
fulfill it.
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