Drop

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

From the edge of death, he heard a faint cry, and in the distance the

Laughter of the desert.

Behold, the hope and the regret

Of all the evils aforethought

Are gone down with one droplets’

First thing a bird will do for a long

After another is gone down, L.A.

(One day, soon enough, he’d ask)

She died before she slept. She knew that, somehow.

The knowledge but somehow, with the command

He’d wrapped her in his arms, and she’d known that, too.

When her next body was taken, a cargo drone

He had landed next to her. The two of them had been

Moving like bees through the empty night

Touching, feeling, hearing: their dreams mingled.

Before him.

Before he could speak, she broke free of the re-visioned images and opened her own eyes.

He was lying on the ground, face-first, a leaf of grass against his cheek.

His eyes were open, but the back of his head was inaccessible.

She opened her eyes and laughed.

She had laughed so hard that she hadn’t laughed in a long time

[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

Line break added to preserve spacing in generated text. Replaced two character names with generic pronouns. Removed a sentence about a goat eating a corpse for taste and flow. Edited line formatting a little for flow.

Title

Title roughly taken from generated text

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": 0.8999999999999999
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