The Dream Machine

Here’s a Birdy story I wrote with the help of an AI. Basically, at key junctures in the narrative I would feed the preceding paragraph or two into https://app.inferkit.com/demo, a predictive neural network, and then incorporate the text it gave me into the story. Really I could have carried this much further (and perhaps still will), but I think the result is gloriously weird.

* Edit May 2024: This story aged kind of hilariously, given that the tech it used was already dated at the time it was written, and very shortly ChatGPT revolutionized AI text generators. I’ll have to consider how to best make use of the new tech…