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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: AI SF
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 13:19:31 +1300
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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.)