Thread by @D_the_Designer

I'm beginning to be able to tell which creative projects pre-dated the existence of ChatGPT, and which didn't.

I'm not going to name names because I see this as fascinating and plenty of these works are good and I even follow some of them!

But there are some things that stand out to me.

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I can't tell that a person hasn't used GPT, but there are little tells that tell me they've derived significant plot points from GPT. And here's how.

In specific genres - especially cult, cyber-conspiracy, dream/mind control, anything Backrooms/liminality/SCP - GPT generated stuff has a certain commonality to it

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It's as if GPT users are discovering and converging upon the same universe and plot points. And when GPT runs away with the story - and you don't produce significant amounts of your input - you end up telling the same story as the other users of GPT who are working in this same general latent space.

And I bet that SCP, the Backrooms, etc are the common denominator.

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When I brainstorm Company Space with GPT, I keep significant amounts of control over the direction and use my own ideas because I *don't* want GPT to tell the story for me.

Because I see how the same story universe and plot points are being converged upon by multiple people who think they're telling their own story.

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I'm not going to point this out, again, or name names. But when you follow AI creators long enough and ones who produce their own consistent universe, you see this same specific corner of the Latent Space being tapped into over time.

And again it is very much in the same corner of the Latent Space as Welcome to Night Vale, SCP, Backrooms and it had babies with David Lynch, X-Files, and Severance.

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