Narrative Device

About

Narrative Device is an AI-based story generator released by human-AI interaction researcher Rodolfo Ocampo. The site automatically generates short one-paragraph stories based on two themes or prompts. In early February 2022, the generator went viral on Twitter and was used in memes.

History

On February 1st, 2022, human-AI interaction researcher Rodolfo Ocampo released Narrative Device, an AI-based story generation tool able to create short one-paragraph stories based on two provided by a user.^[1] On that day, Ocampo made a post about the tool on Twitter,^[2] inviting everyone to try it out. The tweet gained over 3,600 retweets and 13,500 likes in one week (tweet and attached example shown below, left and right).

In early February 2022, the tool gained virality on Twitter, as users shared their automatically generated stories, with a number of posts going viral. For example, on February 1st, 2022, Twitter^[3] user @spurtmagoo shared a story based on the prompts "Jeffrey Epstein" and "Bruce Wayne," with the tweet gaining over 100 retweets and 1,000 likes in one week (shown below, left). On February 4th, 2022, Twitter^[4] user @joe_dogranch shared a story generated from the prompts "Wario" and "the Iran hostage crisis," which gained over 2,300 retweets and 20,500 likes in three days (shown below, right).

Features

Narrative Device is an AI-based bot powered by the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3 autoregressive language model).^[5] The tool was created for the purposes of exploring creative augmentation using AI and human-AI creative collaboration.^[6]

Narrative Device generates one-paragraph short stories based on two prompts, or themes, provided by a user.

Various Examples

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