“tuesday”
By Julianne Aguilar
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“tuesday” is a browser-based narrative experience built with GPT-3 artificial intelligence and CSS. This piece is a website that auto-redirects to each page after 20 seconds, removing the website’s inherent interactivity to simplify and structure the user experience. There are no animations, only new URLs. I allowed GPT-3 to reinterpret a character and story I had already written, and I followed its lead to this new short story’s conclusion. I am inspired by GPT-3’s complete lack of insecurities, and its ignorance of the “rules” of writing. This allows it to create wonderfully unexpected things. As a writer and narrative designer, I am fascinated by the way computers interpret the idea of storytelling, and I am optimistic about future collaboration with artificial intelligence to tell bigger, stranger, more beautiful stories.
