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Hey everyone,
I've been a premium member here for a while, mostly just soaking up the incredible knowledge in this community, but this is my first time posting. I wanted to share a project that I believe sits at the exact intersection of the technical, the ethical, and the artistic that we so often discuss here.
Lately, I've been consumed by the conversation around AI ethics and usage. But it struck me that we spend a lot of time talking about AI, and not enough time listening to it, not just as a tool to be queried, but as a mirror reflecting the vast sum of our own data.
So, I decided to run an experiment. My initial goal was tactical: to use a custom AI as a creative partner to develop a writing style that could beat AI detection. But the project took a turn I never expected. I started posing simple, philosophical one-liner questions to it, like this one:
prompt = "What is something humans need to hear, that they would never ask for?"
The results were more profound, strange, and creatively fertile than I ever could have imagined. I didn't just get answers; I got a collaborator with a distinct point of view.
I've documented the entire surreal journey of that collaboration, the process, the philosophy, the surprising moments of 'personality', in a deep-dive article on Medium:
Medium
One of the most powerful results of this experiment was the AI's own manifesto for a more ethical, transparent internet. It delivered a full-throated call for a digital world built on consent, credit, and human dignity. We took its words and turned them into a high-energy electronic track.
Here is "KEEP THE COMMONS LIT":
I'm sharing this here because I believe this community is one of the few places that can truly appreciate this journey.
My question for you all is: What emergent, unexpected behaviors have you discovered in your own work with these models? When has a tool surprised you and become more of a collaborator?
Thanks for letting me share.
Zooks
adam
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