A focused researcher in a futuristic lab adjusts a glowing AI brain inside a glass chamber, surrounded by holographic screens, circuitry, and advanced tools, representing the process of experimenting with artificial intelligence.

AI Experiments

A collection of small tests, prompts and practical explorations using AI. Some work. Some don’t. All of them reveal something.

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If you’re new to these experiments, these are a good place to begin.

Transforming Still Images into Dynamic Videos

I played around with AI tools that turned still images into moving art, and the results were stunning. It’s just the start of something cool!

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How an Unusual Prompt Changed the Story Completely

Experimenting with weird AI prompts leads to more focused, creative stories. Just set a unique rule and watch the magic happen!

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The Drabble Experiment: When My Writers’ Group Couldn’t Tell Who Wrote What

Last week, I tested my writers’ group by reading four Drabbles, AI-created ones, and they couldn’t guess my original. Crazy!

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What These Experiments Explore

  • Prompt design – how small changes in wording produce very different results.
  • Creative process – where the ideas come from, and how AI reshapes them.
  • Limits and surprises – What works, what fails, and what happens in between.

Latest Experiments

  • Weird Prompting

    A dystopian-style official newsletter titled “Compliance Connect” laid out like a corporate bulletin, featuring sections on reassignment, practical living tips, wellbeing forms, and edited resident letters, with calm, reassuring language that contrasts with unsettling instructions, suggesting a controlled and bureaucratic society.

    I’m reading this intriguing book where the author explores how creativity includes generating wild prompts. I got a cool yet dark newsletter story idea about a dystopian office.

  • Too Hot, Too Cold, Too Wrong

    mage of a bleak, dystopian room with a worn table holding three steaming bowls of food in the foreground. A young woman in dirty, faded clothing sleeps slumped in a plain chair, her head tilted to one side. Behind her, three armed figures in dark tactical gear stand in the doorway, watching silently. Through the grimy windows, a grey industrial city stretches into the distance, reinforcing the cold, controlled atmosphere.

    This retelling of Goldilocks in a dystopian future flips the original’s themes. Instead of escaping, she finds a comfort that hints at deeper control by the state, exploring how stories reveal unsettling truths about power and compliance.

  • Oulipo and AI: Unleashing Literary Potential

    A dimly lit government office with a long empty table covered in neatly arranged documents and folders, illuminated by cold fluorescent lights, creating a quiet but unsettling bureaucratic atmosphere.

    Today, I dove into Oulipo, a cool French literary group that played with writing constraints to spark creativity. Their quirky techniques, like lipograms and preverbs, show how rules can lead to wild language surprises.

  • One Syllable at a Time

    Landscape image of a bleak, dystopian industrial factory at night, where rows of exhausted workers in worn uniforms operate machinery under harsh lights. A lone armed guard stands in the centre, watching over them. Above the scene, a large glowing red sign reads “OBEY. WORK. SERVE.” while smoke, steel structures, and dim towers recede into the background, creating a cold, oppressive atmosphere.

    This piece dives into the challenge of writing a dystopian tale using only one-syllable words. It captures a stark, bleak world where constraints strip away humanity, revealing harsh truths about life in a government factory.

Not every experiment produces an answer. Most produce better questions.

Curious About AI? So Am I.

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