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This sounds like something Neil Gaiman might write. Especially the last exchange.

morpheos137 5y ago
Here is a second reply to the same prompt: She stroked Bill's Microsoft floppy disk until she found his hard drive. She moved to its top and looked at its contents. Sure enough, she found Bill's e-mail messages. There were the familiar missives from friends, family, and her book. She scrolled through them. There were messages from brokers, clients, and partners that she'd done business with. The ones she did not recognize. Then she came to one that caught her eye. The subject line read "Note from my lawyer." It was obviously Bill's lawyer. And she knew why the lawyer was e-mailing. She opened the message. It was two short paragraphs of nonsense. She saw that the sender's e-mail address was hidden behind a protective program. She pulled her phone off the edge of the bed and held it over the computer screen. When the screen lit up, she saw that the sender's e-mail address was a fake address, not the real one she'd been using to contact Bill. Sarah couldn't be sure of anything anymore. All her suspicions were now confirmed. This was the real purpose of the meeting with Bill. He wasn't interested in business or investments. He was interested in money. She'd known from the start that his monetary concerns were much bigger than her.
- morpheos137 5y ago
  Here is another one I found interesting: The ghost haunted the hunter not the slide rule. As the year began a Chinese gaiwan had been placed in the hunter’s bedroom in case the bottles of Mai Tai began clinking. A brand-new Sams Publishing biography of great curmudgeon Alfred Hitchcock appeared on the coffee table. Because film history, when you’re into it, can get boring. One day in early December, the hunter was in his house studying on his laptop when he heard something behind him, like a glass clinking. He turned to see the ghost of Mr. Hitchcock. The director was dressed in a tuxedo and looking over his shoulder, not at the hunter but over his shoulder, a look the hunter understood. Hitchcock knew the hunter was there. He hadn’t yet noticed the Chinese gaiwan, or the Sams book, or the Mai Tai. “Did you make the movie Arbogast?” he asked. “I think it was Arbogast,” the hunter said. “It was,” Hitchcock said. “You may not know this, but I had to rewrite the ending.” “Really?” the hunter said. “Why?”
  - worldsayshi 5y ago
    I wonder how hard it would be to modify GPT-j to allow not just an initial prompt but several stepping stones. So you could outline the story and have it flesh it out.
    - newswasboring 5y ago
      We can even make it a REPL like thing. Where we give it ever expanding prompts. 1. Give initial prompt 2. Feed prompt to GPT 3. Read and edit (if needed) the response 4. Add to the response some new sentences 5. Make full text the new prompt 6. Go to step 2. But I don't know if there is a limit on the prompt Edit: goddamit even my pseudo code has bugs.

Here is a second reply to the same prompt: She stroked Bill's Microsoft floppy disk until she found his hard drive. She moved to its top and looked at its contents. Sure enough, she found Bill's e-mail messages. There were the familiar missives from friends, family, and her book. She scrolled through them. There were messages from brokers, clients, and partners that she'd done business with. The ones she did not recognize. Then she came to one that caught her eye. The subject line read "Note from my lawyer." It was obviously Bill's lawyer. And she knew why the lawyer was e-mailing. She opened the message. It was two short paragraphs of nonsense. She saw that the sender's e-mail address was hidden behind a protective program. She pulled her phone off the edge of the bed and held it over the computer screen. When the screen lit up, she saw that the sender's e-mail address was a fake address, not the real one she'd been using to contact Bill. Sarah couldn't be sure of anything anymore. All her suspicions were now confirmed. This was the real purpose of the meeting with Bill. He wasn't interested in business or investments. He was interested in money. She'd known from the start that his monetary concerns were much bigger than her.

morpheos137 5y ago
Here is another one I found interesting: The ghost haunted the hunter not the slide rule. As the year began a Chinese gaiwan had been placed in the hunter’s bedroom in case the bottles of Mai Tai began clinking. A brand-new Sams Publishing biography of great curmudgeon Alfred Hitchcock appeared on the coffee table. Because film history, when you’re into it, can get boring. One day in early December, the hunter was in his house studying on his laptop when he heard something behind him, like a glass clinking. He turned to see the ghost of Mr. Hitchcock. The director was dressed in a tuxedo and looking over his shoulder, not at the hunter but over his shoulder, a look the hunter understood. Hitchcock knew the hunter was there. He hadn’t yet noticed the Chinese gaiwan, or the Sams book, or the Mai Tai. “Did you make the movie Arbogast?” he asked. “I think it was Arbogast,” the hunter said. “It was,” Hitchcock said. “You may not know this, but I had to rewrite the ending.” “Really?” the hunter said. “Why?”
- worldsayshi 5y ago
  I wonder how hard it would be to modify GPT-j to allow not just an initial prompt but several stepping stones. So you could outline the story and have it flesh it out.
  - newswasboring 5y ago
    We can even make it a REPL like thing. Where we give it ever expanding prompts. 1. Give initial prompt 2. Feed prompt to GPT 3. Read and edit (if needed) the response 4. Add to the response some new sentences 5. Make full text the new prompt 6. Go to step 2. But I don't know if there is a limit on the prompt Edit: goddamit even my pseudo code has bugs.