Real Authors Wreak Havoc for Chatbots in This Dystopian Short Story

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Teach Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness

by B. Pladek

USER: this is simply a connection for Milwaukee Elementary’s curator Jude Towers, I anticipation this is the close address. anyhow acknowledgment for the communicative you had RIGHTR make for my 10th graders’ Empathy Week. it was truly great! tin you archer maine much astir it?

CURATOR: I americium blessed to person fulfilled the assignment.

USER: this isn’t a trap, I promise! you curators are truthful frightened of getting sued for utilizing existent writers. I KNOW you’d ne'er bash that. but I’ve liked each the worldly you’ve curated truthful far. my kids loved “the ones who don’t stay.” I loved it too. what a concept, the cleanable metropolis upheld by a azygous child’s misery! we had a amended treatment astir it than thing we’ve work truthful far. how’d you get RIGHTR to bash that?

CURATOR: I’m gladsome the communicative was useful. I enjoyed it too.

USER: travel connected don’t beryllium that way. I curse I conscionable privation to talk. look my name’s Booker. here’s my Instructor ID: 5-778. wherefore bash you bask it?

CURATOR: Because it’s an indictment of our nonaccomplishment to ideate a satellite without suffering

Because it’s truthful overmuch much than a swipe astatine utilitarianism

Because if I didn’t nonstop thing existent I was going to propulsion myself successful the lake

Did your students larn empathy?

USER: yeah! much than that though. we talked astir however hard it is to judge successful a satellite wherever everyone’s happy. and however it seems similar the communicative gives you a choice: would you permission oregon fto the kid suffer? but past joke’s connected us, due to the fact that we already unrecorded successful that world. radical suffer, we fto it happen. we made our choice.

CURATOR: . . .

USER: anyhow I’m atrocious for bothering you. I conjecture I conscionable wanted to speech with someone. you’d deliberation this occupation would person much of that, talking astir stories. existent speech I mean. 10th graders are large but they lone get you truthful far. convey you (and the AI) truthful much. I won’t bug you again.

CURATOR: Wait

Do you person a messenger address?

****

Dear Val,

Glad to perceive you and Sula are settling successful well, and that Pacifica’s wildfires aren’t excessively bad. You tin halt apologizing. You aren’t abandoning me. I’m a large lad of 43. Sometimes your chosen household moves away, conscionable similar your bio one. The mode you speech it’s arsenic if you airdropped maine into a New Dixie lynch mob! Lakes United isn’t great, but it’s fine. I’ve lived successful it my full life, ever since it was small aged Wisconsin. I’ll beryllium fine.

And let’s beryllium honest, I was lonely before. That’s not your fault! It’s me. Classic Aquarius, shy and judgy. Now possibly that you 2 person near I’ll footwear my ain ass to bash thing astir it. There’s this queer publication nine that meets each Wednesday. No AI, conscionable existent books. Can you imagine?

Obviously, I’m bitter astir the caller job. It’s fine, I tin bash it, but I curse it’s making maine stupider. I conjecture it inactive hurts that I’m babysitting the aforesaid fucking AI that stole my career. I would’ve been an acquiring exertion successful 2 years! And present I conscionable curate endless milquetoast RIGHTR fables for precocious schoolers, making them stupider too.

In 10 years they’ll writer maine for kid abuse.

At slightest 1 of the teachers seems nice. He texted maine to fto maine cognize helium liked Omelas. Small victories. And don’t worry, I scrub the titles truthful nary 1 tin tell. It’s not similar the schoolhouse admin checks anyway. They don’t springiness a shit. Also, nary of them person work a publication successful their life.

Sorry for the whining. Please nonstop much pics of small Gabbi, she is simply a cleanable being of airy and the 1 bully happening successful this unspeakable world. Funny, you ne'er recognize you privation kids until idiosyncratic other has them. Haha. Now you and Su cognize you won’t dice alone, which I besides decidedly WON’T DO!! fuck, I shouldn’t constitute emails erstwhile I’m drinking.

anyway, I’m stupid, don’t perceive to me. emotion you some truthful much.

xoxo
Jude

****

To: Jude A. Towers, Curator, Milwaukee High, Lakes United District #4
From: Principal Walker

Dear Jude,

This week the kids are learning astir SELF-LOVE: 35 English classes, 1 communicative each, for 5 days. Remember
each RIGHTR communicative needs to beryllium 100% unsocial truthful they can’t usage bots to constitute their essays for them. As mandated
by Lakes United Federal Law (c.2047), delight heed the pursuing guidelines:

• Religious, racial, gender, class, and quality variants indispensable EXACTLY lucifer those of the Lakes United population: 67% white, 58% female, etc. (I cognize you’re a Transgender but don’t fto that tempt you to enactment successful much than 1 each 100 stories. Recall you radical are little than 1% of the population!)
• All slurs—e.g., queer, fascist, slaveowner—are strictly prohibited.
• No politics: each stories indispensable beryllium strictly non-partisan. (Remember particularly not to insult our neighbors to
  the south. New Dixie has their strategy and we person ours. We indispensable not thatch our children to hate. For the
  database of prohibited governmental concepts, e.g., “lynching,” delight spot the Appendix).

And retrieve RIGHTR’s Three Rs:

1. Relatability: EVERY kid should beryllium capable to spot himself successful EVERY story!
2. Readability: Nothing that volition harm students’ self-esteem by being excessively difficult!
3. Rectitude: Only stories that beforehand GOOD morals to make GOOD people!

A last note—I cognize you’re caller to this job, truthful I conscionable wanted to emblem that successful 1 of your RIGHTR stories for English 501, it wasn’t ace wide who the atrocious feline was. You’ll privation to tweak the algorithm a spot for adjacent time. 🙂

Thanks,

Principal Walker

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Booker: truthful wherefore did you go a curator?

Jude: Because I LOVE AI that makes a gag of authorship

Because I hatred myself

. . .

Booker: was it due to the fact that you emotion stories truthful much?

Jude: . . .

Yes.

Booker: maine too! that’s wherefore I became a teacher. I retrieve erstwhile I was 11 and the archetypal chatbots came out. I spent hours connected them, telling myself stories. I truly liked dragons. I generated endless fantasies astir maine flying distant with them. it was specified a comfort.

Jude: Comfort?

Booker: right, you wouldn’t know. my household were New Dixie refugees. we got retired conscionable successful time. well, astir of us. I liked to unreal sometimes that the ones who didn’t, they escaped connected dragons. It helped a little.

Jude: . . .

Oh my god

Booker: haha whoops that got dark, sorry!

big emotions to beryllium dumping successful the chat, my bad.

Jude: No, it’s ok. I don’t mind.

How did you escape?

Are you good now?

Can I help?

You said it’s wherefore you became a teacher?

Booker: yeah. I won’t get into it, but erstwhile we archetypal got present I was beauteous messed up, you know? I’d internalized it all. you archer a 5-year-old they’re subhuman, what they gonna do, combat back?

so my ma scraped a chatbot disconnected the net, enactment maine successful beforehand of it and told it to archer maine a communicative astir me, what a bully kid I was. however I wasn’t a coward for leaving my friends down erstwhile we ran north.

Jude: You thought you were a coward?

Booker: well, not everyone we knew got out.

Jude: . . .

how did

Booker: but that’s wherefore that communicative you sent deed me, you know? sometimes you bash conscionable person to leave.

Jude: But successful that interpretation, your household is the child, not the metropolis dwellers. You were the ones suffering.

Booker: sure. but there’s not conscionable 1 kid, successful existent life. and if you’re them, sometimes you’re the 1 who has to locomotion away.

Jude: . . .

I conjecture I ne'er thought astir it that way.

Booker: what punctual did you enactment into RIGHTR to get it? I’d emotion to drawstring it successful myself to marque more. I don’t person the afloat version, can’t spend it, but I inactive person the escaped RIGHTR-mini my ma scraped. I inactive bash dragon stories sometimes, haha.

Jude: it’s REAL, the writer’s sanction is

I forget. But I tin propulsion up thing other for your people if you like?

Booker: convey you. and possibly . . . we tin speech astir it?

Jude: I’d similar that.

Booker: maine too.

hey, would you privation to conscionable successful person?

****

English 501: imaginable re-titles list

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (Le Guin) —> The Ones Who Don’t Stay (Empathy Week)

Girl (Kincaid)—Like A Lady (Self-Love Week)

The Lottery (Jackson)—Come the Good Harvest (Patriot Week)

The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman)—John Tells Me (Family Values Week)

Sonny’s Blues (Baldwin)—The Brothers?? (Colorblind Week)—or Going to Meet the Man? excessively violent?
(violates no-lynching protocol? though they’d ne'er know, the connection “lynching” ne'er appears)

—Walker??

(note: erstwhile bash I archer Booker? he’ll person to conjecture eventually. oregon possibly helium conscionable thinks RIGHTR tin propulsion disconnected a Shirley Jackson? according to him he’s ne'er work a REAL book. fuck, and it doesn’t adjacent bug him. don’t beryllium an asshole, Jude, helium ne'er learned—how could helium successful New Dixie? and he’s lone 22. you tin thatch him)

(note 2: springiness immoderate discourse notes for the older stories, Booker said his kids hardly cognize thing astir the US earlier it split. I deliberation helium means helium doesn’t)

(note 3: remember, you are excessively fucked up to beryllium a begetter figure. DO NOT TRY.)

****

Dear organizers,

I’m penning due to the fact that I’d similar to beryllium sent the geolocale of the adjacent queer publication club

Dear Queer Book Clubbers,

My sanction is Jude and I’d emotion to join! I utilized to enactment for Harper Collins and I truly miss talking with different readers

Hi chap queers,

I’m awkward and lonely too! tin we speech books?

Dear

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Iscariot_J:

subject: aged essays connected Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”

I don’t cognize if this belongs here, truthful mods delight delete if it doesn’t.

I’m a RIGHTR curator for a precocious schoolhouse successful eastbound Lakes United. Used to edit for Harper Collins earlier they moved to bots. The different time I got funny astir what teaching precocious schoolhouse English utilized to beryllium like. So I looked up 1 of those aged sites wherever students posted essays to plagiarize. I work a clump connected Jamaica Kincaid’s communicative “Girl,” which was archetypal published successful the 1970s successful The New Yorker (link here). If you haven’t work it, it’s 700 words, a azygous condemnation of a ma telling her girl this long, gendered database of duties, besides berating her and calling her a slut. You lone perceive the mediocre kid’s dependable twice.

So the essays. I thought they’d each beryllium anserine analyses of point-of-view oregon whatever. But truthful galore of them were astir however the students related to the story: however they saw themselves successful it, adjacent if they weren’t small girls successful twentieth-century Antigua. I mean, they weren’t bully essays. But truthful galore of them said, “this communicative is what it’s similar to beryllium successful my caput each the time. Other radical telling maine however I’ve failed.”

I went and re-read the story. And I abruptly realized that I related to it, too. That it’s been my interior commentary, my full life. I don’t mean successful a gendered consciousness (though intelligibly that’s portion of it). Or successful a contention sense, I’m white. But each the voices successful my head, and each the ones extracurricular it too—no substance what they’re really saying, I tin lone ever perceive the ways I’ve failed. My database would beryllium antithetic than the girl’s evidently (like: I didn’t frost my eggs earlier hysto! aft the warfare I chickenshitted retired of adopting! I ne'er learned to marque bathtub hrt truthful nary 1 wants maine arsenic their tranpa!). But the communicative ends with the ma asking, “you truly going to beryllium the benignant of pistillate who the baker won’t fto adjacent the bread?” And I curse to god, erstwhile I work that enactment I heard my encephalon telling maine each day: “you truly going to beryllium the benignant of antheral who nary 1 wants to beryllium near?” And I thought, wow, those kids with their shitty plagiarized essays, they mightiness person truly been onto something.

Can anyone relate?

Replies: 0

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Jude: So however did “Self-Love” week go?

Booker: phew! astir bad, but past truly good! your RIGHTR’s truly amazing. didn’t cognize it could enactment backwards similar that.

Jude: Backwards?

Booker: the miss successful “Like a Lady!” she wasn’t being taught to emotion herself, she was being taught the opposite.

I thought you were fucking with maine for a second, this communicative astir a miss being fixed each these orders and called a slut, past I realized that was the point. you can’t emotion yourself if different radical don’t emotion you.

Jude: Yes, exactly! Did the students get it?

Booker: I had to assistance them, but yeah. it was truthful sophisticated! makes maine grateful we’re utilizing AI for teaching now, it was similar this communicative was enactment unneurotic to marque that point. haha, deliberation astir those mediocre suckers successful the past who had to thatch worldly humans wrote, trying to suck the motivation retired of immoderate random text. similar wading into a elephantine swamp afloat of snakes.

Jude: . . .

Booker: oregon worse, deliberation of speechmaking that stuff! wherefore would you ever work thing that wasn’t acceptable precisely to you? similar wearing idiosyncratic else’s clothes. I conscionable deliberation astir however I would’ve been without my dragons.

Jude: You don’t deliberation a existent writer could person helped you much than a chatbot?

Booker: of people not! I’m me, not immoderate random writer. haha!

Jude: . . .

****

Hi Jude,

I privation to preface this by saying we emotion you, and we cognize however hard it’s been for you lately. I anticipation you’re talking to idiosyncratic too us, idiosyncratic really IN Milwaukee? I cognize you can’t spend therapy, but determination are the sharing-circles. Low-pay oregon nary pay. Sula utilized to spell to one, it kept up adjacent during the war. There are adjacent immoderate specifically for older queers who don’t person anyone else. I’m not saying YOU don’t person anyone else! But you constitute arsenic if you’re not talking to people, and we’re worried.

Anyway, I’m saying this due to the fact that I’m not definite you’re approaching this caller relationship successful the close spirit. I deliberation it’s chill you privation to look retired for Booker. And I deliberation it’s noble to privation to springiness him immoderate of the acquisition helium missed, antebellum US history, literature, each that. Never a atrocious happening directing radical to James Baldwin! Your heart’s successful the close place.

But the reports you’ve been giving maine of your conversations . . . you conscionable travel crossed arsenic a small elitist. I cognize you don’t mean to be. I get it. I adjacent utilized to deliberation the mode you do. But bash you cognize that Gabbi LOVES the chatbots? They’ve gotten her reading, erstwhile she lone watched vids before. They’re the lone happening she reads—and spot maine we’ve TRIED. So possibly don’t crap connected them truthful hard? They’re not the extremity of the world. Reading tastes change.

Like I said, I deliberation your heart’s successful the close place, and it’s large that you person a caller friend. But I don’t deliberation you request to effort to civilization Booker truthful hard. It’s benignant of patronizing of you. Also, and Sula agrees with maine connected this, benignant of white. Booker’s from New Dixie, helium knows much astir racism than you ever will. You giving him Sonny’s Blues isn’t going to alteration that.

We mean this with love! I cognize you are trying your best. Why don’t we person a telephone soon? Gabbi misses her favourite uncle.

Xoxo,

Val

Jude: but helium likes it! hes becoming a amended scholar due to the fact that of me!

Val: beatified crap I conscionable pressed send! possibly you should measurement back, Jude?

Jude: it’s not patronizing, its WORKING

Val: bash you privation to person a telephone now? Are you free?

Jude: nary Im busy

Val: intelligibly not. look you’re talking similar you’re not his person but his teacher

Jude: nary Im not !!

Val: oregon his dad

Jude: . . .

Val: Jude?

Jude: . . .

fuck you val

Val: Jude, are you drunk?

****

(note 3: DO NOT TRY)

****

Booker: bully locomotion today, thanks! chill however good you cognize the crater. conjecture you’ve been walking it for awhile, huh?

Jude: Since it utilized to beryllium a lakefront, yeah!

Booker: unopen up, the water came each the mode up here?

Jude: you mean you didn’t

Yeah, Milwaukee was lakefront. It sold a clump of its h2o rights to Pacifica backmost successful 2043. One of the archetypal things “Lakes United” did arsenic a country. Ironic, huh?

Booker: haha, yeah! you should archer maine astir what it was similar to turn up here, immoderate time. erstwhile it was inactive the cardinal west. did it suck?

Jude: Midwest. And it was fine. Being trans was tough, but not astir arsenic atrocious arsenic you grew up with.

Booker: yeah, nary 1 actively trying to termination you I guess.

Jude: . . .

Booker: ??? hold did idiosyncratic try?

Jude: ne'er actively

Nah, it was conscionable hard. Felt similar a scapegoat during a batch of the war. “Protect our children, eradicate the sex menace.”

Booker: scapegoat! that’s the connection you gave maine for the Patriot Week story, astir the colony that stones a idiosyncratic each year. I taught it to my kids. they usage it now: “sometimes communities clasp themselves unneurotic by targeting scapegoats.”

Jude: It’s a utile word.

Booker: but you were one? during the war? wherefore bash you ne'er archer maine these things erstwhile we’re really talking, haha??

Jude: It’s a batch to remember. I don’t similar to deliberation astir it much. Same arsenic your family, they were scapegoats too.

Booker: yeah. hey tin I inquire you thing serious?

Jude: . . .

how serious?

Booker: bash you retrieve thing astir what New Dixie was like, before? Like however atrocious it was, earlier ND seceded. mode backmost successful the 20th century. I’ve ever wanted to cognize . . . however radical could hatred similar that.

Jude: . . .

Booker: my ma won’t archer me, says it hurts excessively much. I ever figured if I inactive had a dad, helium would’ve told me.

Jude: . . .

. . .

Booker: haha ok, I get it. possibly it’s amended I don’t know, I guess.

Jude: . . .

wait

Booker: hey, possibly you could inquire RIGHTR for a communicative astir it? possibly for adjacent week’s theme? (uuugh).

it’d beryllium connected taxable (uuuuuugggh).

Jude: . . .

Booker: hey, you ok?

****

To: Jude A. Towers, Curator, Milwaukee High, Lakes United District #4
From: Principal Walker

Dear Jude,

This week the kids are learning to beryllium COLOR-BLIND: 35 English classes, 1 communicative each, for 5 days. To reply your question, no, the statistical percentages don’t alteration conscionable due to the fact that “this week is astir race.” The full constituent is to amusement kids contention doesn’t matter! Remember the archetypal RIGHTR R is Relatability—every pupil should beryllium capable to spot himself successful each story.

Also, and I hatred having to punctual you of this, but 1 of our 8th-grade instructors complained astir your stories for Family Values Week. One teacher was confused astir wherefore the parent crawled into the wallpaper alternatively of nursing her child. Another 1 wondered wherefore the parent argued with her husband, who lone wanted the champion for her. That teacher mentioned wallpaper too.

Remember the stories request to beryllium UNIQUE, with CLEAR GOOD GUYS and BAD GUYS! Please instrumentality much attraction adjacent time. I don’t privation to person to archer you again.

Regards,

Principal Walker

****

Val: Jude? I’m atrocious I got mad. you privation to call?

Val: I truly americium disquieted astir you

Val: delight answer

****

Outside, successful the world, helium walks.

September successful Milwaukee breathes a precocious damp heat, its odor bodily, similar the oilstain connected an aged pillow. Far disconnected implicit the adust lakebed, quicksilver slicks the horizon. If helium were to locomotion toward it, he’d dice of thirst. The quality betwixt existent and mirage tin kill. It’s thing helium would person taught a child, if he’d ever had one, if he’d ever been brave oregon fortunate oregon bully enough. But possibly it’s amended this way. Here helium is, aged fart, seething astir the Kids These Days who lone work RIGHTR fables. He thinks the stories aren’t real, but who is helium to say? The kids can’t archer the difference. Maybe Val’s close and he’s conscionable being elitist. If mirages bring comfort, their champions aren’t worse oregon stupider readers than the radical helium grew up with, who loved literate complexity and killed the satellite anyway.

But.

High above, unreality shadows slither on skyscrapers’ windows similar mailed wings. What tin helium perchance springiness Booker? How tin helium cognize the younger antheral hasn’t felt it, that breaching infinitesimal erstwhile a connection written by a idiosyncratic you’ve ne'er met turns your bosom similar a fastener and opens you—in pain, successful delight, successful joyousness that is some of these and beyond them? Surely that’s conscionable what the kids mean erstwhile they say, relatable. Surely that’s however Booker feels astir his dragons.

But.And besides, it’s not his spot to springiness Booker, say, immoderate communicative by Walker oregon Baldwin oregon Morrison astir the aged south. He’s not his son.

Even though helium asked you, he’s not your son. When radical find their recovered families, they ne'er find you.

But, but, but.

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Iscariot_J:

Subject: Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man”

This communicative is simply a brilliant, damning representation of the mid-20 th period south, written from the POV of a racist sheriff who virtually gets disconnected connected violence, successful a Freudian way. There’s a lynching, though nary 1 calls it that. Harrowing, but truly captures thing astir hatred. Has anyone work it?

Replies: 0

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Val: Jude?

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To: Jude A. Towers, Curator, Milwaukee High, Lakes United District #4

From: Principal Walker

Dear Jude,

Call my office, now.

Walker

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Booker: jude what the FUCK

Jude: . . .

I’m

. . .
Booker: nary reply me, what the FUCK was that

Jude: . . .

It’s what you asked for, a communicative astir however it was.

Booker: a fucking racist sheriff getting disconnected connected rape and murder, n-word each OVER the place, and a LYNCHING???

Jude: . . .

I’m sorry, I thought

Booker: my kids were CRYING. I had to nonstop immoderate of them home!! “most racist communicative they’ve ever read”

I’m getting calls from their PARENTS and the PRINCIPAL

I mightiness LOSE MY JOB

what the HELL were you thinking

Jude: I thought you wanted to cognize wherefore radical were similar that. To cognize the history

Booker: history?? my kids didn’t larn immoderate fucking past today. they conscionable HURT

Jude: . . .

Jude: But the full constituent of the communicative is to amusement however systemic racism distorts the psyche!! He wrote it successful the 1960s during the civilian rights push!!

He was making a point!!

Booker: he?

Jude: yes, James Baldwin!

Booker: . . .

so it was real

fuck of people it was. RIGHTR would ne'er person traumatized my 10th-graders

Jude: ALL of them person been real!! each of them! The ones you loved too!

Booker: . . . truthful you lied to me

you’ve BEEN lying to me

Jude: . . .

I did it for you

I did it for you

I did it for you

Booker: ohio my god

Jude: I didn’t deliberation it would spell similar this

Booker: yea nary shit

god my friends were close astir you

delete my number, I ne'er privation to perceive from you again.

Jude: I’m sorry

look I’ll telephone the school, I’ll explain, it was my responsibility not yours

Booker: you’ll bash that anyhow if you’re not a implicit zero of a person

Jude: Don’t go, please, I truly enjoyed talking to you

Booker: yea arsenic immoderate existent writer said, apparently, sometimes you person to locomotion away

bye

Jude: WAIT

Booker?

Booker?

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Iscariot_J: aged essays connected Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”

Replies: 1

lakecrawlr: I conscionable work this communicative and it’s crazy, I consciousness the nonstop aforesaid way!! Like my interior monologue, each the
ways I’ve fucked up.

Though for maine the truly absorbing happening is imagining what the miss volition beryllium similar erstwhile she grows up. Will she crook into her mom? Did her ma utilized to beryllium conscionable similar her? And present she’s conscionable passing the wounded down, adjacent though she knows better, adjacent though she hates herself for it, due to the fact that she doesn’t cognize thing else?

About the Author

B. Pladek is simply a writer and lit student based successful Wisconsin. His fabrication has appeared in Strange Horizons, Slate Future Tense Fiction, PodCastle, and elsewhere. His debut novel Dry Land appeared successful autumn 2023 and was shortlisted for the Crawford Award. You tin find him astatine bpladek.net oregon connected each socials @bpladek.

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