Shelley

Shelley is the world’s first collaborative AI Horror Writer. Shelley read hundreds of thousands of eerie stories from Reddit’s famous r/nosleep, and learned how to write new horror stories. Like Mary Shelley - her Victorian namesake - Shelley takes a bit of inspiration in the form of a random seed, or a short snippet of text, and starts creating stories. But what Shelley truly enjoys is to work collaboratively with humans. Starting October 25, and leading up to Halloween, she responded to the stories she would start every hour on her Twitter account to create the first AI-Human horror short story anthology ever put together!

Note: The work is led by Pinar Yanardag (CEO of A.I. Fiction) during her studies at MIT Media Lab.

• Date: October 2017