GEN AI

The Context Maker

I have been writing about my creative practice using Gen AI on my blog both here and on Substack. Here’s a recent post about a story called PROMPT:

PROMPT: An experiment in storytelling with AI.

Quantum Teapot

Here is a link to GPT powered story world, a trippy dreamlike interactive fiction called ‘Quantum Teapot’. And here is a post about it.

The Face Tracer

The Face Tracer is a GPT character who finds your historical doppelgängers, echoes of your current self. Try it here and read about it here. Meet Matthias Klee from the free city of Nuremberg. A 17th Century maker of mechanical curiosities… and my historical doppelganger.

Meta

I am an expert prompt engineer, with vast experience in writing prompting for AI Characters and narratives. For almost 2 years, I was under contract to Meta’s Gen AI Content Studio, then Meta Superintelligence Labs, training models, drafting prompting and editorial guidelines, prototyping AI characters and storytelling, and exploring where gen AI can take narratives and user experiences next. I wrote the Personality Prompting Principles for Meta and trained the team in best practice.

Among my projects at Meta, I was a named contributor to releases of both Llama 3 and MetaAI, worked on multimodal products and tools using multiple AIs and underlying models to deliver structured narratives, embodied personas using voice and video and much more. I can only share what has been made public from the dozens of work streams, product launches, training sets and prototypes I worked on. Here are links to some of the characters (chatbots and image generators) I made for the launch of AI Studio in Summer 2024:

Flower For You is a quirky image generator. Name your three favourite things and it will make you a flower of, say, puppies, Oreos and the seaside.

Candy Heart lets you make custom candy heart with a personalised message.

Chat Noir gives hard boiled advice and pulp comic images.

Story Starter offers creative inspiration or interactive entertainment by generating an opening line and image for a whimsical tale in genre of your choice. For example, a quirky sci-fi story featuring a robot street sweeper and a magical door…