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So this requires a little explanation.

I was thinking about Kimmy. I’ve been throwing around ideas for other stories in the same world for a while now, and after I got done with some writing for When You Fell from Heaven one night, I kind of needed to blow off some steam.

This is that steam.

It’s not Kimmy. It’s not set in that world or connected to it in any way. The android shit works completely differently, and the tone is way different. More importantly, this is a dumb work that I have been writing in the last hour before I go to bed some nights, or when I’m recovering from dental surgery, so it’s messy. It also has no pretensions, no allegories, no message. It’s just the horror.

It does have basically the same content warnings as Kimmy, though, so take care. It’s... a less serious story than Kimmy, so I can’t judge if they’ll hit the same way, but just watch out.

Finally, I might be experimenting with putting this up on Kindle Unlimited under a different pen name when it’s done. If it ever gets done.

Apologies for this. It’s not really been edited, bar me running a quick comb through it just now, before bed. So it’s as-is.

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Also, when will When You Fell from Heaven 26 be done? Soon. I was feeling woozy as hell today, so I only got like 500 words done, but I’m getting there.

Comments

Cadence (a.k.a. GooCatBirdMaid)

oh this is fantastic. i love it when men are stupid. (not to mention how damn hot the “i am an appliance” section is)

Sparifankerl

Nice one! Looking forward to reading more of it. What keeps tripping me is why the HR100 is supposed to be able to do functions like cleaning with a LLM. LLMs are _language_ models. They're neural networks trained to produce replies to language input. For a cleaning task I'd expect one or more neural networks trained on sensory input processing, another trained to handle cleaning devices if they aren't built-in as with a Roomba a scheduler function and, maybe, an LLM to serve as command interface. No idea whether special abbreviations like "LLM" exist for neural networks processing sensory information or to handle external devices. I could imagine that the neural network used to "drive" the robot is some form of generative AI (gen AI, a sub-category of neural networks that includes LLMs but also, for example, image or video creation neural nets) that creates a stream of motor/actuator command sequences but I'm not an expert on robotic AI and may be wrong on that point.