The Introduction Thread

[tehta]

Welcome tehta! Looking forward to see your writings! Machine learning, humm? Are we going to have some AI related stories?
And I also think a Tolkien thread would be nice!

You know what we totally can have? AI-generated stories. I have been playing around with using big language models for this (like GPT-3) and it would be very interesting to try it for fanfic. (The way it works is that you type in some text, and then ask the AI to generate more text based on this. You can also alternate. It tends to make very dreamlike stories with poor logic, but can be surprisingly amusing.) I will try to generate one and post it in a writing forum of some sort, so people can see what I mean.

I could also participate in a Silm reading (I have read it, of course, and know some parts very well because they were necessary background for my writing).

[RanVor]

So, when do we start?

And I've just started rereading the Gentleman Bastards series yesterday... September 1st, maybe? Seems like a good date to start things.

[Annuil]

Welcome tehta! It’s nice to see new faces!! Hope you enjoy the forum! 

[catbirds]

Welcome to the forum, tehta! I'm glad you've made your way over to this forum from reading SSSS even though it's only been like a month and a half since you've begun, wow! Really looking forward to any writing you have!

Also, hmmm, AI-generated stories! It's definitely been popular for fandoms based around books and scripts, but I wonder what it'll do with what text we have in SSSS, considering the amount of visual storytelling. I've definitely seen that sort of thing for LOTR, though, but I haven't gotten into that series myself (I should).

[tehta]

I am not sure this is the right place to continue this conversation, but:

• My SSSS stories are on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/tehta/works?fandom_id=3697829
• I tried the AI generator yesterday. It's quite obviously using SSSS fanfiction as a base (it's trained on the internet) so that's interesting, but then it leapt straight into cousin incest so I stopped it.

[Jitter]

Writing board would be better, but I’d like to know more how the AI thing works in practise

[ohnosir]

Welcome Tehta! I must say AI stories sound very interesting...I've seen a few AI-generated short scripts for shitposting groups, but obviously they were mostly for the memes lol. I'm excited to see it (and read your link)!

[Mirasol]

Welcome welcome tehta! (Look at how late I am, you´re almost halfway to the safezone by now... :'D) I hope you still enjoy some squirrelcookies*:

*mind the crunchy bits, we aren´t sure what they´re made from!

[LuckyCheshire]

'Allo, I've been reading the comic for a while but never quite got around to using the forum until now. There's about a 50% chance that I'll make this one comment and never be heard from again, and 50% chance I'll be in the top 10 most active next month. We shall see... nice to meet you all! (I am only fluent in english btw, but can speak perhaps five words each from Italian, Latin, Greek, French, German and Korean) Anything else I should mention?

[moredhel]

welcome to the forum LuckyCheshire

[Opaque]

Hello! Enjoy yourself on the forum, LuckyCheshire!

[catbirds]

Hi there, LuckyCheshire! Hope you'll be around for a little longer than one post! If you're interested in developing your language skills, you can also do that here in our language board

[tehta]

Hello LuckyCheshire! I welcome you as (apparently) a fellow cat, and also as a person who showed up 1.5 months ago and has been posting all over everything.

[RanVor]

Welcome to the forum, LuckyCheshire!

[Keep Looking]

Welcome to the fan forum, LuckyCheshire! It's good to have you here.