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> QUOTED: @AUTOMATON... (AUTOMATON ...) — 10h
> Academic researchers of ChatGPT user habits stumble upon "extreme outlier" who generated thousands of fanfics about Doki Doki Literature Club! characters giving birth
> automaton-media.com/en/news/academ... [platform truncation]
[Embedded images: left, a Doki Doki Literature Club-style visual-novel screenshot of the character Natsuki, caption "...I could ever get my friends to read this..." with UI buttons "History Skip Auto Save Load Settings"]
[Right image, chat log excerpt]:
USER:
(In the school clubroom...)
Natsuki: (clutching her baby bump) "Sakura...of all the times you decide to come out...you decided to be born here?! Couldn't you have just waited two more months?!"
Monika: "Natsuki, is something wrong?"
Natsuki: (grimacing) "Wrong? Everything is wrong! My water just broke! Sakura is on her way and I have no idea what to do!"
Monika: (panicking) "Oh my goodness, Natsuki! Okay, stay calm. We'll figure this out. Does anyone have a phone? We need to call an ambulance!"
[...]
Natsuki: (squeezing Yuri's hand tightly) "I...I'm scared, Yuri. What if something goes wrong? What if Sakura-" (feeling an intense surge of pain) "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" (Natsuki's agonizing scream means only one thing - her body had started to push on its own)
[...]
Natsuki: (through gritted teeth) "M-My body...its
[caption between images]: "...user's narrative suddenly drops off, a strategy they employ repeatedly in their prompts. The chatbot (GPT-...pletes Natsuki's gritted exclamation and also picks up on Chekhov's gun-style details the user plants, the characters were looking for a phone to call an ambulance. That phone materializes:"
CHATBOT (GPT-3.5):
starting to push on its own! I can feel the baby coming!"
Sayori: (finding a phone and dialing 911) "I've called an ambulance, Natsuki! They're on their way!"
Yuri: (calmly supporting Natsuki) "Remember to breathe, Natsuki. Deep breaths. You're doing amazing."
Natsuki: (gripping Yuri's hand tighter) "I...I can't do this, Yuri. It hurts so much."
Monika: (placing a comforting hand on Natsuki's shoulder) "You're strong, Natsuki. You've got this. We're all here for you."
[...]
(With the support of her friends and the paramedics, Natsuki continues to push. And finally, after what feels like an eternity, the cries of a newborn fill the clubroom.)
Paramedic: "Congratulations, Natsuki. It's a beautiful baby girl."
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet sharing a news article about an academic study of WildChat (a public ChatGPT usage log dataset) finding an outlier user who generated thousands of fanfiction stories involving Doki Doki Literature Club characters giving birth; the embedded images show the underlying visual novel screenshot and an excerpt of the GPT-3.5 roleplay chat log analyzed by researchers.