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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: AI SF
Date: 15 Dec 2024 04:11:27 GMT
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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.
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