Narrative Rehydration Experiment

I posted elements of an experiment I ran last night for the second time, so as to get cleaner results than my even more hodge-podge first run. I’m thinking about it as Narrative Rehydration, and you can see more at the Github repo linked. Briefly, in my own language, Narrative Rehydration focuses on whether you can take a sort of loosely encoded version of an underlying story structure, and with some other elements that we will get into, plop the whole package into a gen AI system, and have it render results which are faithful to the structural skeleton described. We’re not trying to reproduce exact words from some original text version of a story, because there is none. Instead, a sample story broken down into this format would look like the below. I had the system encode Little Red Riding Hood, and then went in and tinkered with it a bit for clearer separation of parts: time:morning > mother > give > basket @ girl mother > warn > "Stay on the path." @ girl girl@woods > meet > wolf…