Fable 5.2 Invents 'Hard Way Day' in One-Shot Utopian AI Story
realSharonZhou · x · 2026-11-16
- Sharon Zhou prompted Fable 5.2 with a broad ask to write a utopian-AI short story; it one-shotted the piece in 2 hours, inventing "Hard Way Day" — an annual day when people do something hard by hand, without AI.
- She gave no plot or characters on purpose, wanting to see the model's spontaneous future imaginings, and argues for painting a clear positive vision of humans flourishing with AI.
- Follow-up: the model depicted itself as a floating globe following its owner, a self-image she has seen across multiple models and suspects is elicited by the pre-training distribution.
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