As spotted by Japan's IT Media News, a paper presented at Purdue University's MFS Cultural AI Conference called AI Fiction in the Wild performed a fascinating study of half a million anonymous English-language ChatGPT-user conversations using WildChat, and found some real oddities. Well, one in particular.
The study's purpose was to analyze the significant number of AI prompts that boil down to variations on "write me some fanfic." Which there sure is a lot of. "More than a third of the conversations contained some form of fiction generation," the researchers said, "including original stories, scripts, roleplay, worldbuilding, fanfiction, and erotica."
The study defined two separate varieties of AI-fiction prompters, which they call story cyclers and infinite story demanders: "Story cyclers ask for iterations of the same story for a period of time, then switch to another story or topic. Infinite story demanders request the same story, or a very similar one, over and over again for long stretches of time."
The most prolific of those infinite story demanders h...
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