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NANTUCKET LIT PHLOG

A NEW AI STORY

NJB // 2024-12-19 // Lafayette, CO

© 2024 Nicholas Bernhard

CC-BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Back in March, I wrote a blog post about two story ideas I would pay for. One
was a short story based on *Steamboat Willie*, the other was a short story
about AI. 

I am pleased to say the AI short story challenge is over. I have received a
superb submission from a writer who has been published here before. 

I asked for a story that would explore problems with AI *today*, not problems
in the future. No robot uprisings was my firm rule. While their story is
science-fiction, the problems brought up in this story are very much problems
we are dealing with right now. Like a good William Gibson novel, it's modern
trends pushed just the *teensiest* bit into the fantastic. That makes the story
all the more scary. 

Earlier this year, I took a job that ended up becoming a nightmare gallery of
workplace misery and humiliation. Kooky-brained rat bastards, the lot o'em.
When I close my eyes I can see their *rodentia* sharp teeth glittering in the
darkness. One of the very first red flags at this job was when my boss, about
my age, with a newly-minted master's degree, told me they ran all their emails
and other correspondence through ChatGPT. I was asked what I thought about
that. I told them that when it came to my own emails, I was a *writer*, and I'd
worked too hard on my writing to let a machine do it for me. 

This new short story about AI is like a railroad station map on the express
train to Hell. It will be part of a new short story collection focused on the
exciting new writers using Nantucket E-Books. I will be thrilled to share it
with you all next year. 


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