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From: Cryptoengineer
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Subject: Re: AI SF
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 10:50:30 -0500
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On 12/14/2024 11:11 PM, Ted Nolan wrote:
> In article , Titus G wrote:
>> On 15/12/24 11:28, Ted Nolan wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>> On 12/14/2024 11:44 AM, 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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