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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Date: 14 Dec 2024 22:28:57 GMT
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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:".
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