Mastodawn

Micro SF/F by O. Westin

The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed.

There was a shimmer - a demon appeared.

"Curious. What ritual is this?"

"I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!"

"I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #vss

@MicroSFF BRUTAL!

@MicroSFF perfect!!

@MicroSFF lmao 😂

Hanno Cloudwatcher 2d ago

@MicroSFF
Great. Just like that!👍🏼

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JamesP 2d ago

@MicroSFF based on programmers using AI calling them vibe coders, would it be dark vibing rituals?

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KeyJ 1d ago

@JamesP @MicroSFF Vibe summoning!

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Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands 2d ago

@MicroSFF I needed this laugh, as I was stressing about the latest AI Slop bots on Discord yesterday. Thank you. <3

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haihappen 2d ago

@MicroSFF they did the equivalent if copy-pasting pieces of code from stackoverflow. Just because it compiles it doesn't mean it won't melt your face when you run it.

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ArdentArchivist 2d ago

@MicroSFF 🤣👍👏👏👍🤣

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Nicole Parsons 2d ago

@MicroSFF

The demons about to be let loose upon us all by low cost cyber warfare script-kiddies enabled with AI...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/chatgpt-is-enabling-script-kiddies-to-write-functional-malware/

https://towardsdatascience.com/are-we-ready-for-the-script-kiddies-of-ai-754b23f5fcf8/

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/04/01/from-script-kiddies-to-ai-cybercriminals-the-weaponization-of-genai-in-ddos-attacks/

https://www.technewsworld.com/story/ai-chatbots-can-be-easy-prey-for-zero-knowledge-hackers-179652.html

https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-features/developers-beware-ai-coding-tools-may-aid-hackers/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/effective-fast-and-unrecoverable-wiper-malware-is-popping-up-everywhere/

https://cybernews.com/security/x-ddos-attack-osint-research-reveals-script-kiddie-dark-storm-hackers/

ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

For a beta, ChatGPT isn’t all that bad at writing fairly decent malware.

Ars Technica

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ErosBlog Bacchus 2d ago

@MicroSFF Well, in my defense it *looked* like a perfectly cromulent summoning ritual!

@MicroSFF hah

@MicroSFF Related:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/03/1112604/deepseek-fortune-teller-china/

How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth

AI-powered BaZi analysis has become the new oracle for a disillusioned generation seeking answers.

MIT Technology Review

@MicroSFF Lmao

@MicroSFF thus the eldritch horror began to teach us how to summon its demons

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Eniko Fox (@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place)

AI is an eldritch horror. it is an incomprehensibly vast being but without physical form, not truly alive or aware of anything, though it consumes human knowledge and spits out a perversion of it. those who get too close to it are driven mad, and worship it as a deity that will lead them to salvation, even though it is not even aware of them and will lead them to destruction instead

Gamedev Mastodon

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Papageier 2d ago

@MicroSFF That's what happens if you feed your AI the works of Terry Pratchett.

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Bleistifterin 1d ago

@MicroSFF should it not be fiction?

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Cyclingxian 1d ago

@bleistifterin @MicroSFF Try ChatGPT.🫠

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ckeen 1d ago

@MicroSFF It sounds like this will be a common #laundry scenario by @cstross

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Charlie Stross 1d ago

@ckeen @MicroSFF No it won't! (The Laundry Files end in May 2015, the subsequent New Management series has only gotten as far as 2017, and the fictional universe is therefore blessedly free of LLMs.)

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ckeen 1d ago

@cstross in retrospect a wise decision on your part! @MicroSFF

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Malcolm 1d ago

@cstross @ckeen @MicroSFF unless I'm missing something LLMs would be incredibly dangerous in the Laundry universe and I'd have assumed that the research in the early 80s that lead to them when the scale was available would have been suppressed (Edward Feigenbaum given an offer he can't refuse by the Black Chamber etc)

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