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AI\u2019s promises tend to be pretty highfalutin: that you can use it as your \u201csecond brain<\/a>,\u201d to invent \u201cnew physics<\/a>,\u201d or to become the genius autodidact you always dreamed of being.<\/p>\n Or you can drop these pretensions and just use it to crank out unimaginable amounts of fetish slop, as a group of researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Colorado Boulder\u00a0currently in the middle of pouring bleach on their eyeballs inadvertently discovered.<\/p>\n While analyzing a dataset comprising millions of conversations with an old version of ChatGPT, these innocent academics encountered a user who is \u2014 it\u2019s no exaggeration to say \u2014 the final boss of AI gooners.<\/p>\n Specifically, this anonymous horndog spent months using the OpenAI chatbot to generate vividly detailed pregnancy fanfiction about the high school characters in the visual novel series \u201cDoki Doki Literature Club!\u201d (itself a bizarre piece of media that the uninitiated will need to research for themselves<\/a>.)<\/p>\n For this, the baby bump fetishist earned the plaudits of being the \u201cmost prolific user\u201d in the fiction dataset \u2014 and \u201cthe clearest example of an infinite story demander,\u201d the researchers wrote in their resulting yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study<\/a>, which was first spotted<\/a> by the Japanese outlet ITMedia and later picked up in English by Automaton<\/a>.<\/p>\n You may be appalled by the subject matter, but the study is a fascinating glimpse into how AI users use chatbots to generate fiction, which made up more than a third of the over 500,000 anonymized conversations in the dataset. To help categorize this mountain of data, the researchers used another large language model, finding that, of the fictional conversations, nearly half were fanfiction, and over a quarter were sexually explicit.<\/p>\n One thing that stood out were the small group of \u201cpower users\u201d who obsessively used the AI to this end. They generally fell along two distinct archetypes, the researchers found. One were \u201cstory cyclers\u201d who ask for iterations of the same story for a certain period before moving on, and \u201cinfinite story demanders,\u201d who repeatedly use the AI to revise variations of the same story over much longer periods of time<\/p>\n The average\u00a0fiction-generating user entered repetitive prompts 42 percent of the time, they found. Among the ten most prolific users in the dataset, this jumped to 85 percent.<\/p>\n \u201cSome of this behavior may be attributed to users\u2019 dissatisfaction \u2014 the story is not quite right, at least not yet,\u201d the researchers wrote. \u201cBut we argue that in many cases it is fueled by the satisfaction of reading endless permutations of the same story, none of which end the same way twice.\u201d<\/p>\n The extreme power users definitely tipped the scales, as just two percent of them in the fiction category were responsible for more than 80 percent of the conversations. And our \u201cDoki Doki Literature Club!\u201d pregnancy fetishist was the king of them all.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile this user is a particularly prolific outlier, and we can\u2019t say with certainty why they are generating these stories, many prolific users ask for the same kinds of fiction in a similar vein,\u201d the researchers concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n