Turns Out I’m a Robot. (Some Thoughts on AI Fiction)
What I learned from co-writing a story with seven LLMs.
Welp, that was quite unexpected!
Last Thursday, I ran a silly experiment that cobbled together a flash fiction story from eight separate passages written by different large language models:
The result was a semi-coherent sci-fi piece that didn’t feel particularly satisfying. As a curveball, I wrote one of the sections myself and asked my readers to guess which.
Warning: If you want to participate, this is your last chance to read “Seventeen Thousand Raindrops” and try guessing my section before I spoil everything below.
Eight people tried to guess which section was mine, with the following results:
Section #1 (2 guesses)
Section #5 (1 guess)
Section #6 (1 guess)
Section #8 (2 guesses)
Here’s the twist: I didn’t write any of those sections.
Nobody correctly identified the human-written passage, although one guesser mentioned it as a vague possibility along with another section.
This can only mean one of three things:
My attempt to blend in among large language models was a resounding success.
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