A never-ending supply of short stories, written just for you. Provide a prompt and press the generate button! Whether you're looking for a new bedtime story for the kids, or want to live out a fantasy scenario, Infinite Monkeys is here to entertain.
We’re Matt and Eric, two friends who met through journalism class in high school. We have a shared love of storytelling, and know that many in the PH community have played with generative AI models, but maybe not in the context of longer form creative writing.
So we built Infinite Monkeys, a super simple web app that uses GPT-3 tuned to generate entertaining short stories, and text-to-speech to read aloud to you. We hope it makes you chuckle!
Note: We're not planning on doing anything with this project, the goal is just to spread the creative magic. But please share ideas for improvements, and we'll add them when we have time. Thanks 🙂
Congrats on the launch! This is one of the more fun applications of GPT 3 I've seen. Any tips/tricks you discovered for crafting the input prompt to generate the best outputs?
@ybrikeeg Thanks for trying it out! The biggest learning around prompt design was for regulating output length. When we started, we tried to ask GPT-3 explicitly, ex. "Write a 300 word story about...". This did not work as GPT-3 does not understand length commands.
What worked better for us was feeding it an example in the prompt that is roughly the length of the desired output. So if we give it a 300 word example, the output ends up roughly that length.
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Super awesome product, I love the story it generated for me! What’s been the most unexpected output you’ve see this generate so far?
@melissa_du2 I've been surprised at how much knowledge GPT has about common topics. Like if I write a story about basketball, it will reference technical basketball terms, real life NBA players etc.
I've also impressed by GPT's ability to add plot devices. For Infinite Monkeys, we sprinkle some magic on top of the user input to keep things spicy. For example, we can say "Add a plot twist" and GPT is able to incorporate a twist into the storyline.
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Infinite Monkeys is great, wholesome fun with each story ending on a positive note. The context the app derives from even the simplest prompts and the cohesiveness with which the story is told is very impressive! There is humor in the app's nuanced (but still coherent) miss-understandings, for example in the casual presentation of life altering situations.
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This was super fun. If I had kids, I would definitely write stories for them through this.
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This could be a fun way to share user stories with our team
@jenny_zhai We've designed the app to optimize for drama over realism, so it might not be the best fit haha. For example, here's a story about a product manager who can't keep up with their emails: https://infinitemonkeys.app/?id=....
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