The Unslop prize has reminded me of my terrified fascination with AI Generated fiction. I have come to identify more as a writer since my post from last year when I posted Experiments With Sonnet 4.5's Fiction, and so have avoided repeating the experiment with Opus 4.6 - mostly out of terror. However, a new, smarter Claude is on the way (and The Unslop prize will force me to learn anyway - as I will not be able to resist reading the winning entry) - so it seems like time to do so.

In my last post, I put every story I had written in Claude's context and then asked it to write a story to the best of its ability. Here I have done the same.

I have since written far more. Adding them to Claude's context was easier as there is now this super cool website called https://tomasbjartur.com where all my fiction lives, and is even available in a convenient eBook form. And wow, it's even free.

Opus produced the following story. Interestingly, unprompted it chose the therapeutic context again. My fiction in its context, Perhaps Claude is trying to tell me something. In [...]

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First published:
March 31st, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Yf3dnBPbKkQsXsH2t/experiments-with-opus-4-6-s-fiction

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Experiments With Opus 4.6’s Fiction” by Tomás B.

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