{"id":45582,"date":"2022-08-05T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=45582"},"modified":"2022-08-05T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:21:29","slug":"flash-fiction-friday-the-artificially-intelligent-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2022\/08\/05\/flash-fiction-friday-the-artificially-intelligent-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Friday: The Artificially Intelligent Return!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WELP, you asked, and I am nothing if not a person who listens to his constituents, and wait, what&#8217;s that? You&#8217;re not my constituents? Many of you aren&#8217;t even real? Most of this is a delusion installed into my brain by a questionable artificial intelligence known as Black Swan? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Point is, hey, guess what, the flash fiction challenge is back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are going to use visual prompts from the Insane Art Robot known as Midjourney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m going to give you three prompts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can pick any one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, you can and should write ~1000 words of fiction based on that prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not post your fiction in the comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post it at your requisite online space, and drop us a link to that online space in the comment section below so others can read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any genre is acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us know what prompt inspired the flash fiction you wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For extra bonus points that don&#8217;t exist, USE ALL THREE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here we go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"875\" data-attachment-id=\"45583\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2022\/08\/05\/flash-fiction-friday-the-artificially-intelligent-return\/terribleminds_crepe_paper_skin_highly_textured_pastel_like_a_gh_6afc63ce-2138-4d9b-ad4f-ca6913185c2e\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/terribleminds_crepe_paper_skin_highly_textured_pastel_like_a_gh_6afc63ce-2138-4d9b-ad4f-ca6913185c2e.png?fit=1024%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/terribleminds_crepe_paper_skin_highly_textured_pastel_like_a_gh_6afc63ce-2138-4d9b-ad4f-ca6913185c2e.png?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/terribleminds_crepe_paper_skin_highly_textured_pastel_like_a_gh_6afc63ce-2138-4d9b-ad4f-ca6913185c2e.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Prompt #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"560\" data-attachment-id=\"45585\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2022\/08\/05\/flash-fiction-friday-the-artificially-intelligent-return\/terribleminds_flash_fiction_challenge_prompt_0b4d5c12-515a-4f1d-b042-dbd2e18be641\/\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/terribleminds_flash_fiction_challenge_prompt_0b4d5c12-515a-4f1d-b042-dbd2e18be641.png?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/terribleminds_flash_fiction_challenge_prompt_0b4d5c12-515a-4f1d-b042-dbd2e18be641.png?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/terribleminds_flash_fiction_challenge_prompt_0b4d5c12-515a-4f1d-b042-dbd2e18be641.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Prompt #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" data-attachment-id=\"45586\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2022\/08\/05\/flash-fiction-friday-the-artificially-intelligent-return\/grid_0\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/grid_0.png?fit=1792%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1792,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"grid_0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/grid_0.png?fit=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/grid_0.png?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Prompt #3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELP, you asked, and I am nothing if not a person who listens to his constituents, and wait, what&#8217;s that? You&#8217;re not my constituents? Many of you aren&#8217;t even real? Most of this is a delusion installed into my brain by a questionable artificial intelligence known as Black Swan? Well, whatever. Point is, hey, guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-bRc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45587,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45582\/revisions\/45587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}