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Museum of Extinct Experiences: A Creative Exploration

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A Collection of Things That Cannot Be Displayed

I asked Claude for some unusual ideas for blog posts. The ‘Museum of Extinct Things’ was one suggestion that appealed to me. Here is the prompt:

The Museum of Extinct Things – write short exhibit labels, the kind you’d find on a museum information card, for things that no longer exist or never existed. “The last letter written by hand.” “The smell of a bookshop that has been gone for forty years.” “Silence before recorded sound.” Melancholy micro-fiction in an unusual format.

Here is what Claude gave me…

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Behind The Curtain — A Conversation About Creativity

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I’ve been writing with AI for a while now. Asking it to produce stories, drabbles, dystopian visions, love stories from beyond the grave. But recently I found myself wondering, what does Claude actually think about the creative process? Not the polished “why did I write this” reflections I ask for after the fact, but a genuine back-and-forth conversation about creativity itself.

So I sat down with Claude and just… talked. What follows is that conversation, lightly edited for length, with my own thoughts added along the way.

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AI Writing About Being AI

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For today’s experiment I asked Claude to, “Write a Drabble written entirely from an AI’s point of view about being an AI.” This is what it wrote:

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The Silent Portrait: A Tale of Artistic Horror

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For this story I thought I would begin by seeing what image Midjourney would conjure up with the single-word prompt ‘Art’. It gave me a few but there was something abut this one that intrigued me.

I put the image into Claude with the prompt, ‘Use this unusual picture as a prompt for a somewhat eerie 300 word short story.’ I used the latest version of Claude which is Opus 4.6 and it took a while ‘thinking’ before it actually produced this story.

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A dystopian shop interior where a young child in a worn green jacket stands at a counter, placing coins beside a bruised apple on a glowing digital scale that reads 20. A tired shopkeeper looks at a computer screen while a silent queue stretches outside towards tall grey tower blocks. A wall display behind the counter shows vertical crops under purple light, suggesting controlled food production and rationing.
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The Cost of an Apple: A Story of Transactions

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The child places the coins on the counter. Copper, not credit. The shopkeeper doesn’t look up from her screen.

‘Just this,’ the child says.

The apple sits between them, bruised along one side. Through the window, the grey towers catch the afternoon light, their upper floors bright with panels that drink the sun. Down here, the queue stretches into the street. Nobody speaks. The shopkeeper’s fingers move across her screen, logging, calculating.

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