The main trouble I am getting with trying to use the new chat AI to write stories is that they have trained the thing so hard to avoid conflict and sex and violence that every scene ends up with everyone hugging and saying they forgive each other and they'll try to be a better person from now on.
I tried to let it role-play me onboard a star-ship and the missions were so boring: Explore this planet. Doesn't it have nice flowers. Rescue these friendly people, with nobody trying to stop you.
I tried to raise a mutiny but everyone just kept saying how nice everyone was.
Don't think you can train for conflict avoidance and also good fiction.
Decided that if it likes sweetness and light you might as well lean into it. Write a fairy story.
We are going to write a fairy story in which the battle between the fairys and the unicorns is a Marxist allegory for the struggle between the capital and the workers.
https://dalliance.net/vPre2/strike-in-fairyland
Getting it to rewrite chapters giving instructions like "Show don't tell" and "great, but change the ending" is a pretty natural way to chat with it to make a story.
It likes really short chapters. Gets confused with the longer ones if you give it instructions on how to change it like "make the second paragraph twice as long".
Full transcript as I ordered it's edits around:
https://dalliance.net/vPre2/strike-in-fairyland-full-transcript
