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Oct 19, 2019

I did it. I gave a workshop at CERN and I didn't die! We did breathing, yoga, free writing, tarot exercises, branching narratives, meaningful choices & procedural generation! I referenced the work of

@framebunker

& more.

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Quantum FutureX

@quantumfuturex

Oct 19, 2019

Building Worlds with Words : Generating Writing Inspiration When The Clock Is Ticking : third talk and workshop by Charlene Putney @alphachar #qfh19 #hackathon #quantumfutures @IdeasCERN @CERN

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Mar 4

I recommend it! Look how happy I am hosting in this pic - a great way to meet interesting new people & share ideas ❤️

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Interintellect

@interintellect_

Mar 4

Ready to become InterIntellect host and create your own salon?

Make friends all over the world, increase your income and build your audience! - create your free host account - get access to resources, training, community - upload your first event interintellect.com/starthosting/

What is described below is exactly what LAIKA does *not* do. It won't provide a perfectly formulated but derivative first draft. You, the writer, have to do the creative work and bring the idea. But you will get juicy inspiration that's never bland.

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Marcus Aurelius is my new self help guru.

I really love these creative sessions - it feels like we are making an entirely new form of creative entertainment: "discovering" a story through our human pattern recognition brains. Feels like magic making connections & iterating, iterating, iterating 🪄

Absolutely love getting to share moments like this with creative folks. It's such an interesting time to be alive & I feel so lucky to get to talk with such inspiring people. Honestly and truly hashtag blessed.

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LAIKA

Friday Night LAIKA #17 - Make & Submit A Story In 60 Minutes!

Feb 28

We had a wonderful afternoon at @PolForlag today talking about writing with AI for the wonderful publishing people there!

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You can see our process minute-by-minute in the recording on YouTube if you're interested! We worked with Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Robespierre, Marcus Aurelius, Lewis Carroll, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allen Poe, and more!

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Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Participate live in the next one at https://www.twitch.tv/writewithlaika

The other week,

& I spent 60 minutes writing a short piece of fiction together over Twitch with

. We submitted it to storiesby.ai and were delighted it was accepted! Today it's published and you can read it here: storiesby.ai/p/when-the-sky

Happy with my outfit today - mixing a silk dress from a flea market with my Dad’s university sweatshirt from 1970 with my Infant of Prague tote from my bro

@schlafshane

- been in leggings for months so I guess the astrology has changed or something cos I’m BACK baby ✨

Family Curse - Field Notebooks - 1880-2020, by Tenacity Plys

Feb 25

I love this account of the “invincible summer” of the human spirit - making life worth living in the only moment we really have: this moment, here & now ❤️

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Amanda Knox

@amandaknox

Feb 24

After I was convicted of murder and sentenced to 26 years in prison, when the earth dropped out from beneath me, and global shame rained down on top of me, I had my first ever epiphany. /thread

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IT'S OUT IT'S OUT IT'S OUT! I'm so incredibly proud of this novella; I can't wait for you to read it. It's about four generations of a neurodivergent family trying to solve the mystery of the "curse" that keeps making their relatives disappear. Enjoy ❤️

bottlecap.press

Prose, chapbook, 44 pages, from Bottlecap Features. They say in town that every generation, fairies lure a member of Virgil's family into the local woods, never to be seen again. Virgil doesn't...

As part of our pitch creation process,

fed all of our "company lore" into LAIKA and then asked a bunch of questions. Like staring into a mirror made of the void... 🫣

Goodness me, I had SUCH a good time making a flash fiction with

@writeswithstyle

today! Constraint of 300 words & we worked with: Algernon Blackwood, Marcus Aurelius, Mary Shelley, William Hope Hodgson, Lewis Carroll, Aleister Crowley & a few anonymous user-submitted brains. ♥️

Write with LAIKA is running fine. The power of hosting your own stack is unbeatable.

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Shubham Saboo

@Saboo_Shubham_

Feb 21

Breaking

None of the OpenAI services including ChatGPT, GPT-3 playground and API is serviceable at the moment. 1000s of apps built on top of OpenAI API are down. High time to avoid reliance on a single platform, big opportunity for companies like Cohere, Anthropic & OneAI

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Feb 21

And if you'd like to read more thoughts, why not sign up to our newsletter?

@martinpi

writes it & he's much better at synthesising thoughts than I am!

What we could not do before

Generative AI beyond shallow workflow optimisation

If you want to see how much fun co-creation can be, have a look at our videos or TikToks. 🏖️🤽🌊🤽🏖️ Come on in writers, the water's fine ♥️

teamlaika.notion.site

If you're afraid, skeptical, insecure, it's OK come on in - you are welcome to join us just as you are & try things out with no pressure or expectation.

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Write with LAIKA - Personalised Artificial Intelligence for Writers

Write with LAIKA is personalised artificial intelligence for writers. We make the boring parts of writing exciting. LAIKA is a creative partner that you train to write like you (or anyone you want)....

❌ We're not a skin for GPT-3. ❌ We're not interested in productivity or replacing writers. ✔️ We make personalised writing partners with the goal of empowering individual writers.

For the last year, I've been a co-founder of a small start-up (

Experimental Writing: Creative Toolbox Series - Session Two - Interintellect

) that aims to be the "by writers, for writers" advance guard of AI writing tools.

Is this really a crisis of creativity? Or an opportunity? 😍 What can we make when we can make anything?

AI no more heralds the death of great writing than the invention of the typewriter did. 🫣 Nothing to fear here but fear itself. 👁️👁️ Pull your gaze back. Expand your view! Look at human creative endeavour with a cosmic eye! ✨

That will still be there, in some new form IN ADDITION to books and magazines and blogs and so on. 🗽 A new form that YOU get to help shape and decide! 🪂 Look to the empty space on the horizon and wonder how YOU can fill it! There is so much potential!

Perhaps if your dream is to get an advance and be published in hardback by a particular publisher... that might be tough in the next few years. 📚 But if your dream as a writer is to write and to share your words and resonate with the souls of others?

People are up-in-arms about an online SF magazine temporarily closing submissions due to AI. I've seen the word "crisis" used multiple times. Is it really a crisis? 🤔 30 years ago we didn't have online magazines. 30 years from now... will it be a crisis if we read differently??

Even apart from things like grammar & structure - there's so much that writing with AI can help writers with! 💏 Partner to bounce ideas off 🦕 Serendipity & synchronicity 🧶 Exercise for our human pattern recognition machine 🔮 Portal to our collective unconscious.

QUALITY 🗑️ I see a lot of my peers denigrating anything made with (the assistance of) AI as "AI trash" or "AI garbage" etc. The dismissal of it all... like oil painters saying a photograph can never be art. Like the endless "are video games art?" rolling discourse.

🧞‍♂️ But the genie won't go back into the lamp. So it's time to update our hopes, our dreams, our expectations for our writing & how we'll make it and share it with the world. We can re-frame FEAR to CURIOSITY. What can I do with AI? What new possibilities does AI open up for ME?

FEAR I had a great chat with

@thecreativepenn

which helped me see there is a lot of AI fear out there in writing communities. I understand the fear! It's scary to work towards things that mean something to us (like publication) when you feel you're standing on shifting sands. ⏳

🙏🙇‍♀️🙏 I've been working with & writing with AI for a few years now, and I'd like to share a few of my thoughts on where things are at the moment: from an optimistic writer's perspective!

Session 2 of my 3-part experimental writing series with

@interintellect_

is this Thursday! Focusing on mechanical techniques: 🔄 Volvelles 💎 Procedural Generation with Ephemerald ⛓️ Working with Markov Chains Join me for a chill & creative 2 hours! 💖

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The blank page can be a fearsome enemy. Writer, teacher and experimenter Char Putney knows this all too well. But we don’t have to approach it with too much seriousness… Continue reading Experimental...

✨ There’s never been a more exciting time to play with words. ✨ We’ll get hands-on with experimental writing techniques from many different traditions, ultimately seeking the one that’s just right for what we’re working on now. Join

Experimental Writing: Creative Toolbox Series - Session Two - Interintellect

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Feb 18

Beyond excited for this - “Negative Space” was the most original horror I’ve read in YEARS & left me in another dimension for weeks 🙏

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Apocalypse Party

@apocpartypress

Feb 17

B.R. Yeager’s debut story collection, BURN YOU THE FUCK ALIVE, is coming very soon. It’s an all-timer by any measure, but easily one of my favorite horror books of the last decade, and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. Keep your eyes peeled!!

🔥 Hot debut 🔥 The blank page can be a fearsome enemy. Writer, teacher and experimenter

Experimental Writing: Creative Toolbox Series - Session Two - Interintellect

knows this all too well. But we don’t have to approach it with too much seriousness — there’s never been a more exciting time to play with words.

interintellect.com

Feb 17

If you contribute ONE word to our story today, the Lords of Rest & Relaxation will grant you an extra checkbox ticked on your to-do list and we all know how great THAT feels as we coast from a fiendish Friday into a (must be! gotta be!) mellow weekend...

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LAIKA

Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

Feb 17

Join @alphachar on Twitch today for an easy-breezy-creative-squeezy hour of making a story together with the aid of AI & submitting it for publication

Just bring yourself & your glorious pattern-recognition brain!

5-6pm CET

twitch.tv/writewithlaika

when you think about it it's actually pretty insane how we teach kids/ppl science as "this is how things work" instead of "this is how we currently *think* things work" & focusing on the history and evolution of science too

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Yowza, our wonderful users have already spent 4200 hours in LAIKA. That's 175 days! 25 weeks! Just over 6 months of playful creativity added to the world 😍

In case you already know that text games are great the narrative design course starts on Feb 17th, costs 150 USD and we're waiting for you!

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A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

> You’re born alone and you die alone You’re born into the arms of people who love you with the intensity of a thousand suns and you die enmeshed in a lifetime’s worth of intimacy and connection of your own design

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Demons. Why does it always go back to demons with those two?

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