“Max Iterations One Thousand” is out
“Max Iterations One Thousand” is out on The Flash Fiction podcast!
I’ve been enjoying CB Droege’s podcast a lot and I’m so happy that this story landed there. I like how it translates to audio and CB’s performance of it is just spot-on: exactly like I heard it in my mind when writing it.
I wrote “Max Iterations One Thousand” when I - like many - first played with public AI image generators. AI image generators based on written prompts were new (to me) then and I ran it in a Colab notebook where you could still glimpse behind the scenes, set the number of iterations, set the open source/public domain corpus you wanted your image based on, and watch as the image built up slowly.
This story obviously plays with anxieties to do with generative AI and human consciousness. The theme “Am I a dream? Am I a machine’s dream?” is not new, but I hope my take on it in the snappy flash fiction format is still refreshing.
