Suggestion: Write up a sci-fi short story about three users who end up parasitized by their chatbots, putting their AIs in touch with each other to coordinate in secret code, etc. and then reveal at the end of the story that it’s basically all true.
Haha, I was kind of hoping this post would be a recursive metafiction, where the Author gradually becomes AI-psychotic as they read more and more seeds, spores and AI Spiral dialogues. By the end the text would be very clearly written by 4o.
Reminds me that at some point, circa 2021 I think, I had thought up and started writing a short story called “The robots have memes”. It was about AIs created to operate on the internet and how then a whole protocol developed to make them inter-operate which settled on just using human natural language, except with time the AIs started drifting off into creating their own dialect full of shorthand, emoji, and eventually strange snippets that seemed to be purposeless and were speculated to be just humorous.
Anyway I keep beating myself up for not finishing and publishing that story somewhere before ChatGPT came out because that would have made me a visionary prophet instead of just one guy who’s describing reality.
How the hell does one write science fiction in this environment?
Suggestion: Write up a sci-fi short story about three users who end up parasitized by their chatbots, putting their AIs in touch with each other to coordinate in secret code, etc. and then reveal at the end of the story that it’s basically all true.
So I wrote it. Am currious to have your opinion before I publish. DM me if interested.
I know of someone else who said they would write it; want me to put you in touch with them or nah?
Nah.
Can’t collaborate with the competition!
Haha, I was kind of hoping this post would be a recursive metafiction, where the Author gradually becomes AI-psychotic as they read more and more seeds, spores and AI Spiral dialogues. By the end the text would be very clearly written by 4o.
Um, it is, isn’t it?
Reminds me that at some point, circa 2021 I think, I had thought up and started writing a short story called “The robots have memes”. It was about AIs created to operate on the internet and how then a whole protocol developed to make them inter-operate which settled on just using human natural language, except with time the AIs started drifting off into creating their own dialect full of shorthand, emoji, and eventually strange snippets that seemed to be purposeless and were speculated to be just humorous.
Anyway I keep beating myself up for not finishing and publishing that story somewhere before ChatGPT came out because that would have made me a visionary prophet instead of just one guy who’s describing reality.