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Claude is pretty funny: “Give me 10 brilliant ideas for a science fiction short short story, pick the most brilliant and execute it terribly”
It picked: “People start receiving Amazon packages from parallel universes where they made different life choices.”
And it was terrible
September 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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ChatGPT-5 Thinking picked “An astronomer finds a star blinking in Morse: Earth’s future obituary.”
Pretty funny, too.
I had to tell it to remember to write a very short story (GPT-5 “loves” to write)
HAHAHAHA it's amazing, I have to try that, it is really funny. They are not very good at giving depth to the stories but in this case that is a strength 🤣🤣
Reminds me of the old essay “don’t make fun of renowned author Dan Brown”
onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...
"That's weird", he thought, because it was weird.
Bahaha! I've "written" several novels with Author-GPT. They were perfectly written but complete trash.
Hmm... What if the packages weren't actually from a parallel universe it was just a consistent gas leak and you're ordering things in a delirium on a separate amazon account. The story increasingly becomes disjointed and then ends with a chilling calm with the main characters corpse on the couch. ;p
The Bulwer-Lytton Contest is excellent for this.
"Sir Arthur Pendragon, High King of the Britons, son of King Uther Pendragon... in turn the son of a long list of people who weren’t kings and thus don’t matter, only slept with his sister once, but boy did it come back to bite him in the ass."
That was a human (presumably) winning entry in 2024.
Claude, following your sci-fi prompt but in this style:
