And Another Thing
Excited today to finally share a project I’ve been working on for several months:
Plot Bunny is a simple app for collaborative storytelling with AI. Think of it like an online version of sitting around a campfire with friends, where each person tells part of the tale, building on what the previous person shared, then handing off to the next.
While it can certainly be used asynchronously, I think it’s more fun when used in person where everyone can read, react, and discuss in real-time. Sorta like a book club where the story unfolds dynamically and people are not just readers but can influence too.
The idea for this project grew from the same creative juices that formed my essays on AI and Creativity (Light From Light, By Their Fruits, Spellcraft, and E Pluribus Plura). It’s one mechanism by which those ideas can be put into practice.
I’m genuinely interested in feedback, good, bad, or indifferent. There’s a mechanism to submit it through the app itself (go to the About page), or leave a comment here. Happy storytelling!
One Reply to “And Another Thing”
I have a few thoughts!
1. Your website requires an account to even look at. I don’t want to make an account to see the way your project works. Having an about page with an example of what this does, what it looks like, and how it actually functions would be super helpful.
2. You do NOT need AI for this. If you’re gonna advertise this on Tumblr, if you’re going to use the name “Plot Bunny” (a term which is derived mostly from the fanfic community which is mostly staunchly anti AI), if you’re trying to reach people who ***want*** to write instead of having a computer do it for them, you need to ditch the AI. The traditional game you’re capitalizing on has never required AI writing assistants, only human creativity. I genuinely do not see the use case for an AI agent in your product given the audience you’re trying to market to.
3. If you’re dead set on using AI in your product, you need to swap audiences. Change up your branding. Ditch the fanfiction name. You need to actually target the groups of people who like AI (redditors, techbros, etc) rather than actual creatives. Will you get only AI-flavored homogenous slop on your site’s stories as a result? Yes. But at least you’ll actually have users.
TLDR: Make your site comprehensible to guests and people who don’t want to make an account. Either ditch AI and share your product with creative people who hate AI, or ditch the tumblrina branding and go for people who actually like AI.