Babylon Today | My old story is back
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:44 pm
I warned you lot that I put this one on the backburner for a reason, and that reason was the same one that drove my lust to create the Yabanverse: the epiphany I had over generative AI back in 2017 led me to realize that, in due time, it was going to be possible to bring my insane stories to life with the power of AI without expending too much effort or money myself.
Babylon Today, formerly known as Mother Meki, is a story I've been harassing this forum with for a literal decade now. No, I'm not lying: the first Mother Meki thread (long since lost to time online but saved/backed up on my hard drive) was posted way back in March 2013, the "Mother Meki Synop" if any of you remember. And the story itself dates back to 2009.
That tale came a damn long way, and the "OG Mother Meki" is still a thing, but definitely not one I'll ever publicly publish because it's just flat-out too fucked-up of a story.
The rebooted version, Babylon Today, is simultaneously more and less coherent of a story because it's certainly not as outright unrealistically sadistic, though it's also less structured and more "slice of life."
It's also an anime now.
I'm serious. I basically generated this tale with ChatGPT and I realized within a single day "I need this to be as weeabooish as possible." Don't get me wrong, it's always flirted with being anime-esque, but I gave up all pretenses over the past week.
That's right. After literally a couple days of revitalizing the story, I turned it into an anime. I mean not yet really, but it's going down that route.
Babylon Today is a story set in a futuristic France where a socialist revolution has taken place. It follows the lives of three former nobles, Empress Marie-Aurore, Princess Madeleine, and Marquis Etienne-Dominique, who are now servants in the Dictatorship of the Proletariat on Medine, a prison island in the English Channel. The three are connected to LoveNet, a brain-computer interface that was created by Marie-Aurore's father to oppress the underclass and control their thoughts, rendering revolution and independent thought impossible among those affected. The trio bond over their class guilt and recognize that no amount of their own suffering will ever compare to the suffering of the masses throughout history.
The story also follows a group of Japanese foreign exchange students, Shunichi and Kumiko among them, who are visiting Medine and become friends with the trio. The students are interested in the technist society of France and its automated socialist economy. The story touches on themes of class guilt, revolutionary justice, and the effects of automation on traditional economic modes of production. There is a mention of the Day of the Bourbons, a roleplay event where the nobles serve as servants to the proletarians, and the "martyress of the wealthy" narrative, which refers to the perceived glorification of the suffering of wealthy individuals, specifically beautiful and youthful women, following a revolution.
A bit better:
Babylon Today is a story set in a futuristic, post-revolutionary France where society is organized around the principles of social technism, a form of communism in which the economy is largely automated and controlled by machines. The Maquis Rouge, a political party descended from the Maquis resistance movement during World War II, holds a significant amount of power in the country and rules the island of Medine with an iron fist. There are four major political parties in France: the Socialist Party, the Revolutionary Worker's Party, the Worker's Republican Party, and the National Technist Party. Meki and Madeleine, two nobles from the Ancien régime, are considered class enemies and are not allowed to participate in the political process.
The story touches on themes of class conflict, revolution, the role of technology in society, and the impact of genetic engineering. There are multiple human species in the world of the story, including Homo eximius, Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus robustus, and Paranthropus americanus. There is also a posthuman "species" called Hyperanthropus cosmicus, but very few people exist as Cosmans as the technology to become posthuman is extremely new. Artificial intelligences also play a significant role in society. The story also references the concept of the Genetic Opera, a dystopian society in which genetic engineering is used to create a speciated caste system.
In the world of Babylon Today, automation and artificial intelligence play a significant role in society and politics. The rise of automation and AI has led to the development of a system called "automated luxury communism" also known as "social technism" in which the prosperity of the proletariat is rapidly increasing due to the widespread use of AI and robots to perform labor. This system is based on the belief that human evolution has been driven by reducing the costs of labor, and will ultimately lead to a fully-automated society.
The use of AI and automation has led to widespread prosperity for the proletariat, with the fortunes of the working class rapidly improving in the post-revolutionary society to the point that many now live like aristocrats, tended to by robots both privately and communally owned.
However, the use of AI and automation has also raised questions about the role of humans in society and the potential for widespread unemployment. Some parties, such as the Worker's Republican Party and the National Technist Party, advocate for the use of AI and automation to be regulated and controlled by the workers themselves, through the use of "pirate platforms" like open-source technology and privacy protection.
In addition, the emergence of posthuman artificial superintelligences has raised concerns about the potential for these entities to surpass and potentially threaten humanity. The Cosmans, a postbiological "species" of posthuman, represent the potential future of humanity if they choose to merge with AI and transcend their biological limitations.
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So here's the new thread where I post a bunch of nonsense and images and short stories and whatnot, now powered by artificial intelligence!
Babylon Today, formerly known as Mother Meki, is a story I've been harassing this forum with for a literal decade now. No, I'm not lying: the first Mother Meki thread (long since lost to time online but saved/backed up on my hard drive) was posted way back in March 2013, the "Mother Meki Synop" if any of you remember. And the story itself dates back to 2009.
That tale came a damn long way, and the "OG Mother Meki" is still a thing, but definitely not one I'll ever publicly publish because it's just flat-out too fucked-up of a story.
The rebooted version, Babylon Today, is simultaneously more and less coherent of a story because it's certainly not as outright unrealistically sadistic, though it's also less structured and more "slice of life."
It's also an anime now.
I'm serious. I basically generated this tale with ChatGPT and I realized within a single day "I need this to be as weeabooish as possible." Don't get me wrong, it's always flirted with being anime-esque, but I gave up all pretenses over the past week.
That's right. After literally a couple days of revitalizing the story, I turned it into an anime. I mean not yet really, but it's going down that route.
Babylon Today is a story set in a futuristic France where a socialist revolution has taken place. It follows the lives of three former nobles, Empress Marie-Aurore, Princess Madeleine, and Marquis Etienne-Dominique, who are now servants in the Dictatorship of the Proletariat on Medine, a prison island in the English Channel. The three are connected to LoveNet, a brain-computer interface that was created by Marie-Aurore's father to oppress the underclass and control their thoughts, rendering revolution and independent thought impossible among those affected. The trio bond over their class guilt and recognize that no amount of their own suffering will ever compare to the suffering of the masses throughout history.
The story also follows a group of Japanese foreign exchange students, Shunichi and Kumiko among them, who are visiting Medine and become friends with the trio. The students are interested in the technist society of France and its automated socialist economy. The story touches on themes of class guilt, revolutionary justice, and the effects of automation on traditional economic modes of production. There is a mention of the Day of the Bourbons, a roleplay event where the nobles serve as servants to the proletarians, and the "martyress of the wealthy" narrative, which refers to the perceived glorification of the suffering of wealthy individuals, specifically beautiful and youthful women, following a revolution.
A bit better:
Babylon Today is a story set in a futuristic, post-revolutionary France where society is organized around the principles of social technism, a form of communism in which the economy is largely automated and controlled by machines. The Maquis Rouge, a political party descended from the Maquis resistance movement during World War II, holds a significant amount of power in the country and rules the island of Medine with an iron fist. There are four major political parties in France: the Socialist Party, the Revolutionary Worker's Party, the Worker's Republican Party, and the National Technist Party. Meki and Madeleine, two nobles from the Ancien régime, are considered class enemies and are not allowed to participate in the political process.
The story touches on themes of class conflict, revolution, the role of technology in society, and the impact of genetic engineering. There are multiple human species in the world of the story, including Homo eximius, Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus robustus, and Paranthropus americanus. There is also a posthuman "species" called Hyperanthropus cosmicus, but very few people exist as Cosmans as the technology to become posthuman is extremely new. Artificial intelligences also play a significant role in society. The story also references the concept of the Genetic Opera, a dystopian society in which genetic engineering is used to create a speciated caste system.
In the world of Babylon Today, automation and artificial intelligence play a significant role in society and politics. The rise of automation and AI has led to the development of a system called "automated luxury communism" also known as "social technism" in which the prosperity of the proletariat is rapidly increasing due to the widespread use of AI and robots to perform labor. This system is based on the belief that human evolution has been driven by reducing the costs of labor, and will ultimately lead to a fully-automated society.
The use of AI and automation has led to widespread prosperity for the proletariat, with the fortunes of the working class rapidly improving in the post-revolutionary society to the point that many now live like aristocrats, tended to by robots both privately and communally owned.
However, the use of AI and automation has also raised questions about the role of humans in society and the potential for widespread unemployment. Some parties, such as the Worker's Republican Party and the National Technist Party, advocate for the use of AI and automation to be regulated and controlled by the workers themselves, through the use of "pirate platforms" like open-source technology and privacy protection.
In addition, the emergence of posthuman artificial superintelligences has raised concerns about the potential for these entities to surpass and potentially threaten humanity. The Cosmans, a postbiological "species" of posthuman, represent the potential future of humanity if they choose to merge with AI and transcend their biological limitations.
___________________________
So here's the new thread where I post a bunch of nonsense and images and short stories and whatnot, now powered by artificial intelligence!