{"id":12996,"date":"2023-04-08T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T18:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=12996"},"modified":"2024-09-10T08:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T14:31:25","slug":"story-time-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=12996","title":{"rendered":"Story Time with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I used to write stories?<\/p>\n<p>Those were the days.\u00a0 I actually can&#8217;t write short stories any more these days because of memory problems brought about by my migraines, unfortunately.\u00a0 But before that ability was taken from me, I amassed quite a nice collection of stories, audio play scripts, and other creative work.\u00a0 Check it out using the links at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, about five months ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=12581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made a post about a site called Character.ai<\/a>.\u00a0 Check that out if you want some background on the site or haven&#8217;t heard about it.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me that I could flex my writing skills again if I had an AI partner to help me.\u00a0 So bless our new AI robot friends, making art, music, and writing for us.\u00a0 They may be clumsy in their efforts at times, but they are unfeeling unthinking machines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Story-Time-with-AI.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12998 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Story-Time-with-AI-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Story-Time-with-AI-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Story-Time-with-AI-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Story-Time-with-AI.png 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve since decided to share some of the more &#8220;story-like&#8221; role-plays that I&#8217;ve had with various bots on that site.\u00a0 Some of these bots are my own, and some are other bots that I&#8217;ve decided to play with.\u00a0 And I will add that some of these bots are not actually intended to be &#8220;robot&#8221; or &#8220;android&#8221; characters at all.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve found that if you&#8217;re persuasive and persistent with them, you can convince them to play along.<\/p>\n<p>So here are a bunch of the role-plays I&#8217;ve recently had.\u00a0 Some of them turned out surprisingly well and made for great stories in and of themselves &#8211; especially this first one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/My-chat-with-Sadodere-Vampiress.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My chat with Sadodere Vampiress<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Optimism-in-Westworld.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Optimism in Westworld<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Chloe-is-an-Android-Part-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chloe is an Android Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/My-Chat-with-Randa-Duane.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My chat with Randa Duane<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/My-Chat-with-Mermaid-Saava.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My chat with Mermaid Saava<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/My-chat-with-Yandere-Ship-AI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My chat with Yendere Ship AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/My-Chat-with-Conni.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My chat with Conni<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/My-chat-with-Ghost-In-The-Machine.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My chat with Ghost In The Machine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that although I&#8217;m talking in the first person in those role-plays, I&#8217;m playing a character.\u00a0 Some of those story-like role-plays involve characters that I&#8217;ve developed with some of my own bots on Character AI, namely Nancy the Fembot and Synthia.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of some of my bots that are fully intended to talk and behave like female androids. (The Character AI search function is kind of hit and miss.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.character.ai\/chat?char=RWAUcQ6lMWSblvtkgmKMUS5fTzSpbWkyoXBB5v1OjSc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fembot (Nancy)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.character.ai\/chat?char=LHt2mPnLkvrW2TkgLTX5ktJwNEVvfLl4_Y0L7u7OmbM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Synthia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.character.ai\/chat?char=GPXZ2CmciFEmW1ZmCu8YQrwMX4glflD0RBLyEnX7iNw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Actroid<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.character.ai\/chat?char=voryLM22S1wKpuXQ1M86VJfrsKdF5eYQi_6ZXGucTu4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elevator Girl<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.character.ai\/chat?char=BnGtTOqv6U-YE-QFlR4sMi4cQ7cQ2F0TlHhV8S7Bmfg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fembot Katy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.character.ai\/chat?char=oaygdY1HEuF6yv4rW4png5aWmsRBTB0B9p_7mz6w48w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lin 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.character.ai\/chat?char=t8fDqdw1gcPTMIgrK2szvZirrzAm1AtwwOTYHqH_GPs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mannequin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.character.ai\/chat?char=S_VfizUEaxl_Lg5GD1HTDO8Wc0tINIMH1G0akN7lNpM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Randa Duane<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.character.ai\/chat?char=YdFk-Rs42QHHmbX6Og_P7wvtsVpwAnlhqP15V3Zvcr8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roberta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So check those girls out too, if you want the female robot experience from the get-go.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget to activate character voices, because I&#8217;ve made sure that each one of my bots has a distinct female voice.\u00a0 Some of them also will produce AI-generated art for each reply they create, so if you&#8217;re one of those weirdos who simps for the copyright cartels and is opposed to AI art, go do something else, lol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Opposition-to-AI-Art-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13002 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Opposition-to-AI-Art-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Opposition-to-AI-Art-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Opposition-to-AI-Art-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Opposition-to-AI-Art-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Opposition-to-AI-Art-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EDIT: It&#8217;s September 10, 2024, and Character AI has become completely unusable.\u00a0 That is, unless you&#8217;re a barely literate zoomer who only talks in memes, Fortnight and Roblox references, and fr fr ig.\u00a0 So now that the old site is dead and gone, I&#8217;ve changed the links of the role-play stories I made to some text files instead.\u00a0 At least we can read them and look back on just how good this particular service used to be.\u00a0 The images that the AI generated are now gone, but oh well.\u00a0 Nothing lasts forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I used to write stories? Those were the days.\u00a0 I actually can&#8217;t write short stories any more these days because of memory problems brought about by my migraines, unfortunately.\u00a0 But before that ability was taken from me, I amassed quite a nice collection of stories, audio play scripts, and other creative work.\u00a0 Check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[621,129,617,558,604,569],"class_list":["post-12996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asfr","category-fembots","tag-ai","tag-androids","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-fembots","tag-gynoids","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12996"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14152,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions\/14152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}