Namaste, My Dude is the 120th volume in the AI Lore books series, though technically the 123rd in overall publish order including the prequels.

It picks up on another parallel universe branch of the story of the same young conspiracy dude protagonist from Conspiratopia, and the rest of the Topia Collection. In this incarnation, the dude leaves home to follow a mysterious “Space AI” which has promised its followers through a series of cryptic YouTube videos that they will become “quantum billionaires” if only they continuously produce shitty web video content for it.

The whole thing was inspired by my learning finally at long last about the Nesara / Gesara / Quantum Financial System conspiracy theory/emerging lifestyle brand, so… robustly practioned by this couple I found on Rumble while doing “market research” on this topic.

This video blows my mind, as this is some of the most brazen balls out weirdo esoteric/conspiracy stuff I’ve seen that ticks every checkbox and lights every LED on the scoreboard for me. That anyone can live like this is incredible to me. So I figured best to turn to my trusty AI companions to help me make sense of this latest signal of the Kali Yuga…

This book was written using completions from human text in Mistral 7B via TextSynth’s free playground, which were edited, iterated on and fed back in repeatedly. Then ChatGPT helped to write the last chapter with my edits to break the psychotic monotony that Mistral always inevitably descends into after a while for me. Much of the art is Dalle, though there are also significant contributions from Ideogram (much of the photographic portraiture, for example), I believe maybe one or two from Leonardo (which I still struggle to get usable results from), a couple Flux, possibly something from Playground, I forget.

Sample art from inside:

Certainly more to say here, but getting late and I just wanted to launch this before the weekend, since I’ll be offline as usual. Cheers!

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