AI AND I #2

AI and I: What is Jeûne Genevois? #2

 Carol did tell us it Chatbots sometimes lied, invented facts -- perhaps to flesh out the narrative, pretend it knows, protect its ego and shut you up.

I queried it on the history of the Jeûne Genevois, a (religious) day of fasting (jeûne) on the first Thursday of September.

Well.....apparently it's a kind of SWISS CHEESE!

                                                                                                        

                                                                        WHAT?? 

No one fasts. 

It's like Labor Day with plums.

People bake or buy scrumptious plum tarts, go to

the country, take in a show, meet with friends and enjoy   

Labor Day by the Lake.  

I simply wanted a bit more historic/religious context 

for this special holiday.

Follow-up:

I checked both my search bots and now they have come

to their senses: a religious commemoration of the

Protestant Reformation (thought so) and some

people do fast. I haven't met them.

Bot Motto

"No deep-dive research - just a quick dip for whatever

floats belly-up to the surface.

Politicians can be liars to please the crowd.

Hey........just like a bot!

 

 

AI AND I #1

Witty, Cagey, Elusive, Lying

My first, and so far only investigation of the powers of AI-generated narrative is when Carol, our collective writing coach, challenged us to download ChatBox AI, feed it a storyline and set it free. 

I entered a general plotline and some distinctive characters and a vague narrative arc and set it free. 

The story was shockingly good. It also seemed to reflect my tone of voice. It requested more prompts so it could continue its filibuster. I use the word ‘filibuster’ because it can hold up a session of true personal creativity. It talks and rambles, taking up time and space, hungry for more feeds and then? I could put out a collection of AI fiction – as people probably have already – and ……..

I was so excited I accidentally erased all of it, just as I was contemplating a collection with a major bot-feed element. Surely writers have already done this, but I was an AI virgin (almost) and was ready for a fling. After the story got re-absorbed into the AI bardo I dropped the idea.  

At least for now.

 

 

 

GRILLED MANGO DOWN UNDER

PS for the previous post

I heard from Paula, who lives on the other side of the planet.

A true story, with variations:

"Believe it or not, in Queensland we barbecue mangoes - yep, on the grill. Pineapples too. Quite scrumptious actually. But you might have heard thrilled mangoes and wondered what all the excitement was about. Or spilled mangoes, an obvious result of their slimy character. What about killed mangoes? Of course we take a knife to them and cut off their cheeks - we even score them (score, not scar - adjust your hearing aids with that app!). How about drilled mangoes or filled mangoes..."