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Righteousdew
Some say the author is still alive to this very day.
ColdestOne
physco
/gallery/DamaxZW
acidfr33
I've been to that kiosk. I like it. I wish they were everywhere!
omorales81
Werd #TownBiz
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
People will jut push the buttons over and over to make sure they got all the stories, or just because they can. Need to employ countermeasures or you’ll always be out of paper.
omorales81
No one was using it but me. 😢
hardbreaker
Wondering that tis is still "needed" in smartphone-times
omorales81
I needed it! I would never have read a short gem about a magical little fir tree.
TheRealNotSoSlimShady0
About the same size as a CVS receipt
MrSnuffleupagus172
For one item
WigglyBlondeNoodle
Still shorter than a Walgreens receipt though.
omorales81
My wife made the same joke. 🧾
CardeasIV
The short vesion of it
FrostyRaptor
How I look trying to read this while running between terminals because they switched gates for the 5th time.
omorales81
UPDATE 😑: flying out of Oakland was a breeze, as usual. Flying back today from Denver: flight has changed 3 times. 🤦🏻♂️
omorales81
UPDATE 😑: flying out of Oakland was a breeze, as usual. Flying back today from Denver: flight has changed 3 times. 🤦🏻♂️
omorales81
LaPotrilla
Thats hilarious!
omorales81
UPDATE 😑: flying out of Oakland was a breeze, as usual. Flying back today from Denver: flight has changed 3 times. 🤦🏻♂️
omorales81
UPDATE 😑: flying out of Oakland was a breeze, as usual. Flying back today from Denver: flight has changed 3 times. 🤦🏻♂️
SpaceSpeed
SpaceSpeed
omorales81
UPDATE 😑: flying out of Oakland was a breeze, as usual. Flying back today from Denver: flight has changed 3 times. 🤦🏻♂️
SithElephant
Me, a man of culture... (multiple gigs of fiction on phone)
redskullcap
...and then the little fir tree was chopped down and turned into paper to print this story. What a twist!
wozat
I blame Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
physco
/gallery/DamaxZW close...
GleepGlopDubloon
mibd
It's made from pulp, not trees
evolution4407
Neat!! I hope they add genre selection for the next generation of story dispensing machines in the future.
BlueDharmaVan
Maybe having it be random will help people be exposed to new things. I tend to get too focused on the old comfortable safe genres.
omorales81
🍻
Carlillo
"Sci Fi Horror, please."
OkButWhyWereTheyFilming
Great another publisher who won't put out my stories
omorales81
I feel this. 💯
OkButWhyWereTheyFilming
My Submittable queue is a graveyard
omorales81
🪦🪦🪦
Gorzine
I want to know what happens to the little Fir tree!!
omorales81
It’s a Ted Lasso kind of result. 🥹
Uffameg
Me too!!
physco
/gallery/DamaxZW here you go...
Gorzine
Thanks!!!
coping73
Wow, that's not just a short story—it’s a tall tale for a little fir tree! 🎄 I hope you didn't need to check it as luggage. Did the dispenser also print a sequel, or just a novella about its cousin, the mighty oak?
Nnoodles
I did not read the story about the little fir tree past that first line but I'm assuming its about it's adventure and character development into a cvs style short story receipt.
omorales81
LOL
omorales81
✈️📚🧾
FlatPlutoSociety
Now connect it to AO3 so I can print out a story about Harry Potter getting nailed by Goku while I wait out my layover.
CeruleanSky1988
Ran into one of these at a market in Santa Barbara, CA a few years back
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
If I developed that I would definitely put a CVS total sale and tax part at the very end of the printout. But actually it would be cool if it had like a discount coupon for the coffee shop or something to reward people who actually get one and read it.
physco
The Little Fir Tree
TheGoodKevin
I had one give me "the little matchstick girl" kinda sucked all of the fun out of the outing
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
They had these at a mall I went to in France a couple years back. My youngest got SO many of them. A couple are stuck on the outside of their wardrobe still.
omorales81
Love it.
NZSheeps
https://short-edition.com/en/classic/story/sarah-cone-bryant/the-little-fir-tree
gesel
The 5 and dime ftw.
NotTinyPancakes
@MrBoopleSnootFluffkins it needs one of your entirely true hamster tales
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NotTinyPancakes
It won't magical hamsters will invent it! but yeah seems a bit weird just printing it on tillpaper liek this unlessits on the back of a receipt but neat all the same :D
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NotTinyPancakes
qr code lol
TheDaharMaster
I ✈️ Oakland
omorales81
Yesssssssss! FTW! #TownBiz
warp10
This is basically the same as "the bard" in one of Isaac Asimov's short stories (consequently what Google named their AI after)
notacobra
I know everyone hates AI, but I think I'd love a version of this that can write high quality stories based on prompts you feed it from a machine like this. An Auto-Story dispenser. "Hi, I'd like a uhhhh.... Epic fantasy romp with a female protagonist who recently discovered she can manipulate the future with her thoughts and uhhhh... In the style of Enid Blyton."
Fastjack2056
Why not reach out to the people who publish short story collections already - e.g., Asimov's - and leverage their huge library of back issues? Seems like you would get better quality and you could support artists that way
omorales81
Someday, killa. Someday…
Noahbalboa82
"I'd like a sci-fi with lasers, space boobies, hyperdrive, and big butts. Please!
notacobra
The machine audibly sighs and paraphrases Firefly, again.
timtams
shameless self plug here, but if you like an AI that can write a story, check out my AI, Vicky, at https://model.tanglebox.ai
Crowlands
The problem with A.I. isn't what it can create. It's the system we're in. People aren't afraid of losing their Jobs, they're afraid of losing their Income, their Benefits, in America their Healthcare. A.I. "Stealing" jobs could be a wonderful thing that means less work, more free time. But, y'know... Capitalism.
huffnpuff72
A.I.- even cheaper than off-shore slave labour wages.
SirBillington
And also they're using it to take the creative jobs. It's one thing to have AI run the assembly line, but when people have free time and more money they tend towards being creative, so taking that way means less opportunity for that work and more people stuck doing nothing, or forced back to menial labor.
Fifofu
No, what crowlands said was on point. What you said sanctifying creativity is reactionary non sense. Sounds almost as backwards as a clergy saying church is the only way to get redemption and go to heaven as if that was real.
rooik14
The main issue is that AI isn't trained just off of dead, public domain authors. They're trained off of living people, which is to say these authors are having their works stolen rather than receiving due compensation.
notacobra
Yeah, look at art school. Those students just learn innumerable artists styles and then add them all to their own! The thieves...
rooik14
An AI is not a sapient person. If you can't see that I suggest getting help due to your disconnect from reality.
ArdentSlacker
Dunno why you're getting downvoted. Didn't think there were that many NFT fans on imgur. (Because the same people saying "AI is the Next Big Thing!" were saying NFTs were the Next Big Thing. Current AI crop is predictive text with a large library. Nothing more. It's not making anything useful, it's just a crappy parrot. And this method can *never* improve. It can't understand any language. It's just guessing what comes next through statistics. Better statistics don't make it smarter.)
FunkeymonkeyTTR
everyone hates A.I? we are in very different communities
CheshireCad
Imgur's stance on AI is pretty random, not leaning strongly towards either "side". A few people *really* hate it, and vocalize it at every opportunity. But the majority seems somewhat positive about it, since they're here to look at neat stuff, and AI makes neat stuff.
omorales81
Bro, the comic book community haaaaates A.I. All artists do.
SaltyInternetPirate
I didn't see the 10-minute option there
omorales81
1,3,5 that’s it.
SaltyInternetPirate
My point is this would take me 10 minutes to read
omorales81
Ok 👌🏼