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Engaging Dystopian Tales on YouTube

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I’m experimenting with storytelling on YouTube. I have created a new YouTube channel called, ‘The AI Grandad Short Stories‘. I plan to add to the collection on a regular basis.

The stories have, so far, all been written by Claude. I have then created the narration with ElevenLabs. Then I used an old (pre-AI) piece of software I have called CrazyTalk8 (no longer available – which is a great shame.) This does the lip-syncing for me. Then I put the finished movie through ClipMagic for the captions, before uploading it to YouTube.

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Claude’s Obituary: A Reflection on AI and Humanity

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We write obituaries for people we have lost. We gather the facts of a life, the dates, the achievements, the relationships, and try to compress a person into something that fits on a page. It is, when you think about it, an impossible task. And yet we try, because the alternative is silence.

I found myself wondering recently what would happen if I asked Claude to write its own obituary. Not as a morbid exercise, but as a genuine inquiry. What would it choose to include? What would it claim to have valued? And what does the gap between what it writes and what it can actually experience tell us about what it is?

I gave Claude a single instruction: write your own obituary. I did not tell it to be funny, or sad, or philosophical. I just asked it to write one.

This is what it produced.

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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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