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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: AI SF Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 10:50:30 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:50:31 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f501ce194d9f52063533b031970a70b2"; logging-data="681831"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mbi4JZGManUJsgz5qEegLFc2ViOyKCe4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:V6rgxAqUalELeKpoNf+GoB31OaI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3171 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