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To be fair, there are quite a few routes in BoM that do end up with "ditch Book of Masks and just hang out with Frank and Joe", and Joe along with Chelsea (for entirely different reasons) are the most interesting characters in the story

Not to be left out, I asked ChatGPT to take a look at a couple of my own bits of writing - specifically "How Rick Got His Knife Back" and "Miko's Chronicle". It seemed quite favourable towards the former, but wasn't happy with the pacing of the latter. For both it complained about the bits that directly link to BoM, since they weren't really contextualised very well in either story.

One thing that was interesting, and appeared in some in the AI generated text I've been playing about with this week, was that Chat really struggled with the idea of transformation. It seemed to get confused when character become other characters. In "How Rick Got His Knife Back", it observed that The Squirt (Will) was referred to as a shapeshifter, but didn't pick up on the gender of his pronoun changing halfway through.

I've continued my AI writing experiments by reprogramming the world state for my magical girl corruption story and got an AI to write a second draft. What's useful here is that with the first draft being a sort of prototype of the story, I was able to sit down and think more about what the characters were like and how I wanted them to be in terms of what I wanted to happen in the story - information I programmed the AI with.

So when I got it to write the second draft, it could come up with decent enough dialogue for them based on the character sketches, and the characters got used rather than just hanging about to make up the numbers

I've now got a 47k word version of the story which I want to do a human editorial pass on to change some of the detail and fix some of the janky prose. The AI, for example, has an obsession with the words "deliciously" and "perfect". I may find some online story site to publish it on if I get it finished.