Don’t over-control: A sci-fi author on worldbuilding and storytelling with LLMs. (Eliot Peper, Every)
Summary
- AI isn't just a new way to generate media—it's a whole new medium.
- Tolans, cute animated alien AI companions, revealed the need to think probabilistically about worldbuilding, not deterministically.
- Prompting Tolans to live their own stories, rather than scripting narratives, unlocked more compelling interactions.
