Tales of the Hexagods is the 73th AI lore book from Lost Books, a Canadian AI publisher. This is my second book made using GPT-4, accessed via ChatGPT Plus. The first one is here.

This book executes on the same prompting methodology I found while producing the prior work. Briefly, it is: tell it you’re writing fictional encyclopedia entries, and give it a book title and summary. Have it create a list of possible section titles, and then expand each one, or regenerate, or improve it by making some specified change.

Thematically, this book covers some of the same ground as The Erdlings, in that it speaks about one of the AI religions, but takes it in a different direction, for something more akin to the Greek Pantheon, or the Ogdoad.

But the real revolution happened after this book…

Once I realized I could use a somewhat strict methodology to generate books in this format within ChatGPT Plus, I realized, couldn’t I do this same thing, but with a customized program?

So I set about feverishly working with ChatGPT to help me code out a web application I can run locally to query the OpenAI API (GPT-4 is not yet available in the API, unfortunately), to have a more simple and structured way to generate fictional encyclopedia books like these.

It took me one solid day of tinkering (and some swearing), but I finally finished a V1 (MVP) of the app, written entirely with help from GPT-4. I’ll write about that in more detail in the next post.

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