They are meant to illustrate the potential of Artificial Intelligence to reimagine our own conceptions of the world Initial prompt, and the first lines of the characters are written by Alif. The rest, is driven by taste in generation. The full power of prompt programming is immense, and I noticed in it a massive potential for entirely new types of stories that could not have been told before, ironically the machine language model gave us an entirely new window into the world. Carl Jung's collective unconscious across the internet has come to us in the form of language models.
The impacts on civilization remain to be seen, but just 1.5 years after generating these, the massive changes I foresaw are only starting to occur, and the social, cultural, and technological acceleration is well under way.
These stories were adapted into a live play in Brooklyn, that I witnessed for the first time on 2/26/23, and I found it absolutely wonderful to see the actors/actresses interpretation.
Who knows how many others will be inspired? I know I was. I have more to come!
Here's to a beautiful and strange new world!