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AI-Generated Writing Prompts Against Humanity

“AI Made Me Do It” Writing Prompts Part 5

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Artificial Intelligence won’t be making writers and artists obsolete any time soon because there’s something we’ve got that it doesn’t: humanity. I asked ChatGPT to tell me about humanity, and this was its answer:

Humanity is characterized by its capacity for self-awareness, creativity, empathy, and complex emotions and relationships. These qualities have allowed humans to create, cooperate, and thrive, but have also led to conflicts, suffering, and inequality.

Today, humanity faces many challenges, including poverty, disease, inequality, and climate change, as well as ongoing efforts to promote peace, justice, and equality. Despite these challenges, humanity remains resilient and resourceful, and continues to search for ways to make the world a better place for all people.

For this installment of the Promptly Written promptilicious segment “AI Made Me Do It,” I asked ChatGPT to generate 10 writing prompts about humanity to see what AI really thinks about us mortals, but with a twist: they’re in the style of Cards Against Humanity, the card game for “horrible people.”

Warning: some of the prompts generated by ChatGPT in this experiment ended up fairly dark and/or raunchy, because the source material it is trying to emulate (Cards Against Humanity) contains sexual humour.

Part 1: 10 Prompts About Artificial Intelligence
Part 2: 10 Prompts About Love
Part 3: These 10 Prompts are LIES
Part 4: 10 Springtime Prompts

How This Works

• Use the following prompts to write anything you’d like: a short story, flash fiction, poem, article, creative nonfiction, etc. Use the prompt in its entirety or change whatever you’d like; it’s up to you!
• Submit your response here at Promptly Written (please follow the submission guidelines) where it will be edited by yours truly, Casey Lawrence**, to other any publication, or self-publish it.
• If you publish your story somewhere on Medium other than PW, make sure to include a link to the prompt at the bottom of your story and tag me (Casey) so that I don’t miss out!
• Have fun!

“AI Made Me Do It”: 10 Writing Prompts Against Humanity

1. The one thing that could unite all of humanity is a really good orgy.
2. What’s the worst way to die as a human? Slowly being buried alive under a pile of laundry.
3. In the world of high fashion, the latest trend is wearing a full hazmat suit as a statement piece.
4. What’s the one thing humans have yet to discover? Humanity.
5. Humanity’s legacy will be remembered for the smell of your grandma’s house.
6. What separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom is our ability to take something good and ruin it with our own self-interest.
7. The only thing standing in the way of world peace is a good, hard dicking.
8. The most valuable trait of humanity is poor life choices.
9. If an alien were to observe humans, they would be most confused by our obsession with putting tiny hats on cats.
10. The best way to destroy humanity is to make everyone play an endless game of Monopoly with no chance of ever finishing.

The specific queries made to generate these prompts include “Generate writing prompts in the style of Cards Against Humanity” (which produced black-card style fill-in-the-blanks) followed by “Complete the prompts” or “Fill in the blanks.” I select the prompts to include in the post from several chats, and exclude any derivative works (i.e., too close to existing IP or another prompt).

Bonus

Here are ten AI-generated ‘micro-prompts’. You can use them as part of your response to the prompts above, or as writing prompts in their own right!

1. Personal demons
2. A suspiciously stained couch
3. Wearing socks with sandals
4. The thrill of successfully parallel parking
5. Being personally victimized by a printer
6. Soggy cereal
7. Stepping on a Lego
8. Uncontrollable flatulence
9. The only thing worse than Mondays
10. A rogue piece of glitter

These micro-prompts were generated by asking ChatGPT to come up with new Cards Against Humanity “white cards” (responses). If you have topics you’d like me to suggest to ChatGPT for generating writing prompts, put them in the comments!

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**To respect my time, note that I will only edit small issues, such as minor spelling and punctuation mistakes, tags, or formatting. If a story requires extensive editing, I will leave a Private Note and reject the piece for you to edit. You may resubmit a rejected story once it has been properly edited according to the submission guidelines.