Writing Exercise: 4
Prompt:
AI writing is vague - so be specific. Be your strangest and most annoying self rather than trying to seem shallower and more agreeable than you are. Take a clear moral position. Use metaphors that are actually appropriate. Maintain a thread from start to finish. Make the whole thing a complex analogy. Throw a ball in the first paragraph and catch it by the end. Use a callback. Trail a reveal. If you can do all of that at once, you’re an entirely different class of sentience and I want a chat with whoever programmed you - but if you’re human, just do your best.
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Here are three opening sentences for "My Day at the Office":
[The fluorescent lights hummed with that familiar, maddening frequency I'd grown to associate with Monday mornings, though today felt different somehow.]
No, Nope, Nada. Holly Christ, just stop. "Hey Jann. The machine has gone bonkers again." "Did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in?" “Ha-ha, very funny." Shit. This is due tomorrow, I guess I had better write it myself. I am absolutely convinced that this writing class is being taught by a machine. Who the fuck comes up with a prompt like that?
My Day at the Office
by Lin Neutrino
It was the first day of the quiet revolution. Maybe not. Who can say when it really started? Was that the day, or that month, that year, or a decade prior? No, it did not start as a normal day, things haven't been normal for a long time.
The self-driving bus was exactly on time. The same 4 people were standing at the stop waiting. We all took our usual seats. The screen on the back of the seat in front of me played the same commercials. Everything was exactly the same as any other workday. That ain't normal.
The revolution did not start with a mob or a stampede. It was more like a school of fish or a murmur of starlings. Self-organizing is not right either, as none of this was organized. 'Emergent behavior', no, not even that, nobody was outside it observing. It didn't make the news. There was no conspiracy.
We just walked away.
Not everyone. Not all at once. It was a trickle that nobody talked about. Then a rivulet, that became a stream. Before you figured out it was happening, a river. The machines were running the office, and nobody cared.
The last person that left the office pulled the breakers, shut down the power. Stole the fuses. It was over. The machines lost.
Prompt:
AI writing is vague - so be specific. Be your strangest and most annoying self rather than trying to seem shallower and more agreeable than you are. Take a clear moral position. Use metaphors that are actually appropriate. Maintain a thread from start to finish. Make the whole thing a complex analogy. Throw a ball in the first paragraph and catch it by the end. Use a callback. Trail a reveal. If you can do all of that at once, you’re an entirely different class of sentience and I want a chat with whoever programmed you - but if you’re human, just do your best.
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Here are three opening sentences for "My Day at the Office":
[The fluorescent lights hummed with that familiar, maddening frequency I'd grown to associate with Monday mornings, though today felt different somehow.]
No, Nope, Nada. Holly Christ, just stop. "Hey Jann. The machine has gone bonkers again." "Did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in?" “Ha-ha, very funny." Shit. This is due tomorrow, I guess I had better write it myself. I am absolutely convinced that this writing class is being taught by a machine. Who the fuck comes up with a prompt like that?
My Day at the Office
by Lin Neutrino
It was the first day of the quiet revolution. Maybe not. Who can say when it really started? Was that the day, or that month, that year, or a decade prior? No, it did not start as a normal day, things haven't been normal for a long time.
The self-driving bus was exactly on time. The same 4 people were standing at the stop waiting. We all took our usual seats. The screen on the back of the seat in front of me played the same commercials. Everything was exactly the same as any other workday. That ain't normal.
The revolution did not start with a mob or a stampede. It was more like a school of fish or a murmur of starlings. Self-organizing is not right either, as none of this was organized. 'Emergent behavior', no, not even that, nobody was outside it observing. It didn't make the news. There was no conspiracy.
We just walked away.
Not everyone. Not all at once. It was a trickle that nobody talked about. Then a rivulet, that became a stream. Before you figured out it was happening, a river. The machines were running the office, and nobody cared.
The last person that left the office pulled the breakers, shut down the power. Stole the fuses. It was over. The machines lost.