Best Line: "Why can't angels ever be nice?" you sob.
So, I've been playing around with this bizarre game called AI Dungeon 2, a sort of text-adventure thing in which an AI generates real-time responses to whatever actions you tell it you're taking. It lets you set up your own scenarios, too. So I decided to attempt to re-create Good Omens as interactive fiction. Unsurprisingly, it went off the rails very quickly. The result was a bizarre canon-divergence AU fic full of angst, romance, violence, and bizarre plot twists, with a deeply tragic ending.
I'm going to link to this masterpiece in a moment, but a few notes, first:
1. I wrote everything in the first paragraph up to the word "demons." The AI took over from there. You can probably tell.
2. The stuff after the ">" prompts was what I wrote, mostly my actions and dialog as Crowley. You'll see a few statements there that start with "!" This was me intervening to dictate what happened next in the story for things other than my own actions. It didn't always help.
3. I do feel kind of bad, looking over this, that past a certain point far too many of my actions as Crowley were basically variations on "give up and cry." But I also think it was understandable. The AI appears to be disturbingly fond of Crowley whump. (Also, while we're at it, um, warnings here for violence, major character death, suicide, and possibly bad things happening to a baby. Because... Yeah.)
4. Seriously, if this is cutting-edge AI technology -- and apparently it actually is! -- I don't think we have to worry about that robot uprising for a good long while yet. The machine has a lot of trouble just remembering which characters are which. Seriously, this is the single most coherent narrative I've managed to generate with it yet, and that really isn't saying much.
All right, so, here you go: one AI-generated interactive Good Omens fanfic. Don't say I didn't warn you.
This entry was originally posted at https://astrogirl.dreamwidth.org/975388.html. Comment here or there, whichever you like.
I'm going to link to this masterpiece in a moment, but a few notes, first:
1. I wrote everything in the first paragraph up to the word "demons." The AI took over from there. You can probably tell.
2. The stuff after the ">" prompts was what I wrote, mostly my actions and dialog as Crowley. You'll see a few statements there that start with "!" This was me intervening to dictate what happened next in the story for things other than my own actions. It didn't always help.
3. I do feel kind of bad, looking over this, that past a certain point far too many of my actions as Crowley were basically variations on "give up and cry." But I also think it was understandable. The AI appears to be disturbingly fond of Crowley whump. (Also, while we're at it, um, warnings here for violence, major character death, suicide, and possibly bad things happening to a baby. Because... Yeah.)
4. Seriously, if this is cutting-edge AI technology -- and apparently it actually is! -- I don't think we have to worry about that robot uprising for a good long while yet. The machine has a lot of trouble just remembering which characters are which. Seriously, this is the single most coherent narrative I've managed to generate with it yet, and that really isn't saying much.
All right, so, here you go: one AI-generated interactive Good Omens fanfic. Don't say I didn't warn you.
This entry was originally posted at https://astrogirl.dreamwidth.org/975388.html. Comment here or there, whichever you like.