and I have one last nightmare about my last dream.
October 25, 2017 6:42 PM Subscribe
Telling Halloween stories with an AI. Shelley.ai is an MIT project training software to help write scary stories for Halloween inspired by r/NoSleep.
She/they/we collaborate via Twitter during the season.
Last year pretty much the same team did a related project on making images creepy (previously).
She/they/we collaborate via Twitter during the season.
Last year pretty much the same team did a related project on making images creepy (previously).
"He was a man who was pregnant, of course, so that made him more powerful."
posted by Joe in Australia at 11:41 PM on October 25, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Joe in Australia at 11:41 PM on October 25, 2017 [2 favorites]
Room 10 was empty. I vomited and fell to the ground, I then took the kids and explained to them what happened.
Hey, it's a lifestyle.
posted by Segundus at 2:58 AM on October 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
Hey, it's a lifestyle.
posted by Segundus at 2:58 AM on October 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
‘ I stood there staring down the hill, and I saw the man in the black cloak standing there, holding a knife. He stood in silence, his head motionless but was staring at me. “I’m sorry. I found you. I want you to enjoy this curse. I love you, I’m so sorry.” ’That's not half bad.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:30 AM on October 26, 2017 [7 favorites]
‘ When I heard the phone ring again, I ran to the stairs. As I was running down the stairs, I started to hear crying. I shone my phone around the corner of the staircase and saw the crying baby getting closer. I crawled over to it and kicked it as hard as I could. The crying from the stairs turned into a soft metallic sound. ’One point for use of 'shone', another for the honest weirdness of organic noises turning inorganic.
posted by komara at 6:45 AM on October 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
I have no phone and I must tweet.
posted by Quindar Beep at 7:10 AM on October 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Quindar Beep at 7:10 AM on October 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
"I should not have done a Ouija with John, it was way too dangerous."
posted by zoetrope at 7:56 AM on October 26, 2017
posted by zoetrope at 7:56 AM on October 26, 2017
> He was a man who was pregnant, of course, so that made him more powerful.
That's my favorite so far, but there are a bunch of good ones. What's fascinating to me is that the AI prose is so much better than the human. Whenever I click through to see the collaborations, I groan when I start on the human-composed follow-ups; they're badly written and obvious. The AI stuff is fresh, compact, surprising. That's it, I'm turning over literature to the AIs.
posted by languagehat at 8:09 AM on October 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
That's my favorite so far, but there are a bunch of good ones. What's fascinating to me is that the AI prose is so much better than the human. Whenever I click through to see the collaborations, I groan when I start on the human-composed follow-ups; they're badly written and obvious. The AI stuff is fresh, compact, surprising. That's it, I'm turning over literature to the AIs.
posted by languagehat at 8:09 AM on October 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
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