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PROMPT: The world was all still, together in their homes
No one was lonely, except for robot 5-Komb
He'd hardly recharged, his sleep mode wouldn't activate
From all the silence, and the frozen precipitate

And every sound as bad as a drumbeat

Took him a long while to come to.

Down, to hell

He waited in the bleed-

Understanding

Heavy hammerblow to the heart

Didn’t hear police whistle.

High, as they go, and all

Heavy, coming in loud and slow

His knees shook, and his mouth was dry.

God damn it, why them and not me?

[END TRANSMISSION]

Editor’s Notes

Written by AI, this text was taken from text generated from my cyberpunk model, and using my “multi-temp” script, that goes from 0.8 to 1.3 temperature settings, iterating by 0.10 and generating 20 or so texts per temperature setting before raising the temp. That gave me a good sampling of what temperature makes what types of text from the prompt I’ve given it. I checked each line of this for overfit against my text corpus the model was built on, and it always surprises me when it has no matches with output like this.

Prompt

The same 5-Komb robot prompt I wrote for “The Earth Was Real”

Edits

Excerpt of first half of a generated text. The rest was inconsistent with this part.

GPT-2 Settings

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  "return_as_list": true,
  "length": 300,
  "top_k": 80,
  "top_p": 0.9,
  "truncate": "<|endoftext|>",
  "nsamples": 3,
  "batch_size": 1,
  "run_name": "model-cyberpunk-run1",
  "prefix": "\nThe world was all still, together in their homes\nNo one was lonely, except for robot 5-Komb\nHe'd hardly recharged, his sleep mode wouldn't activate\nFrom all the silence, and the frozen precipitate\n",
  "temperature": 0.9999999999999999
}