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Matt Leong

Infinite Monkeys - Endless short stories, written just for you by AI

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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.

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Tommy Fang
This looks really fun!
Matt Leong
Maker
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 🙂
Kirby Gee
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?
Matt Leong
Maker
@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.
Melissa Du
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?
Matt Leong
Maker
@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.
Eric White
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.
🔨 Travis Page 🔨
This was super fun. If I had kids, I would definitely write stories for them through this.
Jenny Zhai
This could be a fun way to share user stories with our team
Matt Leong
Maker
@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=....
Abhishek Singh
This is by far the best execution I've experienced of AI in writing. It was so fun generating these stories. I've saved one because it was so funny, don't think I could have came up with it myself and so it was so well written. Amazing work guys
Stefan S
This is awesome, typed "Elon buys twitter but things don't go as planned", and can't stop laughing XD
Matt Leong
Maker
@stefan_s2 Please share the story here if you can!
Stefan S
@mflameingo (can't post URLs I think?) Elon Musk buys Twitter and renames it to TwitBook. The first thing he does is make a post that says "I Just Bought Twitter!" Then he changes his profile picture to a picture of him holding a sign that says "I Just Bought Twitter!". He then goes to the Twitter headquarters and tries to get everyone to come work for him at his new company, TwitBook. But no one wants to leave Twitter, so Elon has to resort to firing everyone. The next day, when everyone comes into work, they're greeted by a sign that says "TwitBook - Under New Management". They all go into their offices and find that their desks have been replaced with beds. And on each bed is a laptop with TwitBook open. Elon then comes on the intercom and explains that since everyone is going to be spending all day on TwitBook, they might as well be comfortable. He also explains that there are no more breaks, lunch hours, or vacation days. Everyone has to work 24/7 until TwitBook is the most popular social media site in the world. The employees are outraged and start to rebel. They try to overthrow Elon and take back control of Twitter, but he's too powerful. He has an army of security guards and lawyers who keep them in line. The only way out is to quit, but Elon won't let them do that either. He's threatening to sue anyone who tries to leave. So the employees are stuck working at TwitBook forever.