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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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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 <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.

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