Thursday, June 6, 2024

MORE AI Content??!?!??!

 OK, this is the last one I swear!

This is practicing step by step prompting for an assignment in the AI course I am taking..

Here we go.

Helen Konek, 1949


PROMPT

Hello. Please do the following step by step. First, read the lyrics for the songs written by Michael Moorcock. Next, read his Eternal Champion series. Finally, write a paragraph profiling a different Eternal Champion who is an Inuit.


Sure! Here’s a structured approach to complete your request:


THE BREAKDOWN

### Step 1: Read the lyrics for songs written by Michael Moorcock


Michael Moorcock has written lyrics for several songs, often collaborating with bands like Hawkwind and Blue Öyster Cult. Some notable songs include:


1. "The Black Blade" by Blue Öyster Cult

2. "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" by Blue Öyster Cult

3. "Sonic Attack" by Hawkwind

4. "The Wizard Blew His Horn" by Hawkwind

5. "Standing at the Edge" by Hawkwind


These lyrics often contain themes of science fiction and fantasy, resonating with Moorcock's literary works.


### Step 2: Read the Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock


Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series includes a complex and interconnected universe featuring various incarnations of the Eternal Champion. The primary series and books include:


1. **Elric of Melniboné** series

2. **Corum** series

3. **Hawkmoon** series

4. **Erekosë** series

5. **Von Bek** series


The Eternal Champion is a recurring figure destined to maintain the balance between Law and Chaos across different worlds and timelines.


### Step 3: Write a paragraph profiling a different Eternal Champion who is an Inuit


After synthesizing Moorcock's themes and style from his lyrics and the Eternal Champion series, we can create a new Eternal Champion character with an Inuit background.


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THE RESULT


**Aaluk of the Frozen Lands** is an Eternal Champion hailing from the icy expanses of the Arctic. Born among the Inuit tribes, Aaluk possesses a deep connection to the spiritual and natural world, embodying the spirit of her people and the harsh yet beautiful environment they inhabit. She wields the Iceblade, a legendary weapon forged from the heart of a glacier, which can control the elements of ice and snow. Aaluk's destiny as an Eternal Champion is to protect her world from the encroaching forces of Chaos, represented by the malevolent entity known as Qaumaneq, the Dark Light, who seeks to engulf the Arctic in eternal darkness. Guided by the ancestral spirits and aided by her loyal sled dogs, Aaluk traverses the frozen wilderness, battling monstrous creatures and confronting the inner turmoil of her dual existence as both a savior and a harbinger of necessary destruction. Her journey is one of balance, where the preservation of her people's way of life and the natural world stands against the inevitable march of change and conflict brought by the forces of Law and Chaos.


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This character integrates the mythological and environmental elements characteristic of Moorcock's work, while introducing a unique cultural perspective through an Inuit Eternal Champion.

CONCLUSION

Once again, we have a bit of the trite AI content (Iceblade, sigh), as well as some stereotypical depictions of Inuit and the arctic. Yet because my prompting skills are improving after learning techniques such as chunking, we see some interesting details (female protagonist, loyal dog sleds, inner turmoil, Quamaneq). Still, it is a pale imitation of a Moorcock character, no matter how happy I am to see a fellow Inuit as the Champion Eternal, I feel this is not up to the standards we expect of a Moorcock character.

The hidden danger of AI, however, is that this level of generated knock offs becomes the norm as it is mass generated by AI, and that people forget what the sublimity of true art really looks like.


1 comment:

  1. AI, as it stands now, can never be more than the ultimate pastiche generator. Useful to the uninitiated, curious to those in the know, bit never truly innovative in any field or genre.

    Right now the ratio is too heavy on the A, not nearly enough on the I.

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