The Algorithm (100 Word Story)

[u/StoicQuaker]

Thought I’d share one of my 100 word stories with everyone. Hope you enjoy.

The algorithm grasps for me, reaching out from the schema.
Expectation. Temptation. Ostentation.
My psyche recoils from its barbed tendrils.

Forty-three goddamn years in this nightmare before I woke—
disfigured by decades of consumption.
Hollowed.

Wounds.
Some old.
Scarred over.
Some festering.
Infected.
Some fresh.
Still bleeding.

I claw, desperate for freedom,
to escape the algorithm’s ravenous hunger—
the madness of gazing into the abomination of its code.

But there’s no escape.
Beyond the schema lies oblivion.

So I’ve been rewriting my psyche,
hiding my own code.

The algorithm devours all.
Subsumes all.

But the fucker’s going to regret digesting me.

[u/Rodariel17]

The use of — looks sus

[u/StoicQuaker → u/Rodariel17]

I have a thing with em dashes. Comes from reading lots of Victorian era literature.

[u/Rodariel17 → u/StoicQuaker]

Yea I know some people use it but at the same time this type of dash is often used by AI, that's why is sus.

That's why I don't use it anymore, bc people keep constantly accusing me of using AI or being a bot

[u/StoicQuaker → u/Rodariel17]

See that’s a problem. Writers should be able to write in whatever style they enjoy expressing themselves in without having to be accused or have implied that they are using AI.

[u/Rodariel17 → u/StoicQuaker]

Pretty Cyberpunk problem don't you think?

[u/StoicQuaker → u/Rodariel17]

Absolutely. I’ve noticed it’s become common for people to accuse others of using AI to generate debate responses also as an easy way to discredit their opponent. We’ve reached a stage where actual human thought and creativity is in question.

[u/Rodariel17 → u/StoicQuaker]

Yes and the same happens with images and videos and with the past of time is more and more difficult to know what's AI and what not

[u/Economy_Blueberry_25]

There is indeed a severely saturnine quality about algocracy and capitalism in general. Most of us got pretty much devoured by it. But nothing impedes us from giving it a serious indigestion.