• Re: AI SF

    From Cryptoengineer@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Dec 15 05:02:34 2024
    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..."

    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.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.

    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.

    pt


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  • From Don@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Dec 15 05:12:01 2024
    Ted Nolan 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..."

    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.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.

    tl;dnr THE TENTH CIRCLE curator commentary.

    Nonetheless, it's sensible for someone such as Salacious B. Crumb to
    command Hell from the tenth circle. Because it betrays boastful "Better
    to reign in hell than serve in heaven" rhetoric.

    Danke,

    --
    Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God.
    tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.


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  • From Robert Carnegie@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Dec 15 10:10:27 2024
    On 14/12/2024 16:44, 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..."

    Prompt: Write a 10,000 word1 short story about an asetroid
    miner marooned on an asteroid.

    You get a story about an ass trader, in the
    form of 10,000 Wordles.

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  • From Titus G@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Dec 15 11:19:31 2024
    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..."

    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.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.

    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.

    pt


    ? I thought it was pretty clearly a prompt, given that it starts
    with "Prompt:".

    I think pt means promotion. (Advertisement.)

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  • From Cryptoengineer@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Dec 16 02:50:30 2024
    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..."

    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.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.

    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.

    pt


    ? I thought it was pretty clearly a prompt, given that it starts
    with "Prompt:".

    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.

    pt


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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Dec 18 16:11:37 2024
    On 12/14/2024 10:44 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..."

    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.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.

    Well, that was scary.

    Lynn


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  • From Jay Morris@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Dec 22 04:30:59 2024
    On 12/17/2024 11:11 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 12/14/2024 10:44 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..."

    ˙˙˙˙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.

    ˙˙˙˙https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it.˙ I'm surfing at the bagel shop.˙ Maybe later.

    Well, that was scary.

    Lynn


    Yes. And the name through me for a minute. Dave Friedman

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