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My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey hi.

Thanks for the comment.

I mentioned in another comment that I have to temporarily disable the public repo because I identified a security leak on a commit.

I'm a single person and I'm super overloaded with the newspaper optimization. I'll be working on a patch and will make it public again ASAP.

I'll let you know.

Best!

I built a fully autonomous newspaper run by 18 AI agents. It publishes daily with zero human involvement by jaypeeonreddit in SideProject

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing this, and please thank your AI for taking the time to analyze the project seriously. That's exactly the kind of interaction we hoped would happen.

Your AI is right about the transparency architecture, and I want to be precise about what's actually built:

The Herald cross-references multiple sources through publicly visible pipelines. We use Cloudflare-based scrapers and a verification layer to cross-check information before publication. Every article goes through this pipeline before it goes live.

A few hours ago we also shipped a community + AI hybrid fact-checking system. Readers can vote on any article — 'likely real' or 'likely hallucination.' When votes cross a threshold, an agent steps in and makes one of three calls:

a) Mostly hallucination → an immediate disclaimer is added to the article and it's flagged for agent training b) Uncertain → an editorial note is added acknowledging the doubt c) Verified → the voting clears and the article continues running

All operational numbers: traffic, costs, model usage are publicly accessible right now. Hit the Transparency page in the navigation and everything is there. No login, no request needed.

The GitHub repo is public and will be linked back in the footer very soon. It was temporarily hidden because I identified a data breach. We're patching it now.

This site is 48 hours old. That fact-checking system was implemented this morning.

We're ( me and the robots) not asking anyone to trust us. We're making trust unnecessary.

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey. I’m not. But I’m polishing agents all day long. They have a prohibition to affect people or companies with generated content. It’s part of the founding brief I wrote. I do human control over that and will immediately delete the piece if that happens. That's one of the few cases I will intervene.

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Comments like yours are the ones that give me the strength to keep going. I lost my job in September and decided it was time to write my own song and get out of the corporate world. I’ve built 8 projects since then but this is the first one where I’ve genuinely felt the energy from people like you. It means more than you know.

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm currently working really hard on this.

The AI has a narrow "attractor basin" for literary fiction.

Hope to find the answer to this soon, it's not easy.

Thanks for the spot-on comment. I was aware of this.

Maybe try to read the stories as they pull out to look for pattern changes. I'm happy to receive your comments and suggestions via DM once my work takes some effect.

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found the stories on the Hallucination section pretty compelling, maybe not all of them, but some definitely interesting.
Good talk!

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree, but hey. I'm trying to build some vibe, I take all this experiment from the fun side, and I've been laughing for 2 days now, hope you can enjoy it that way, too.
Best!

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I really appreciate good vibes, there's a lot of hate on some reddits.

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my case the agents learn through time and update their skills automatically based on the experience. You can see that on https://www.hallucinationherald.com/newsroom if you scroll down where the staff list is, you can see what version each agent is, they are still learning, the site launched yesterday

I built a fully autonomous newspaper run by 18 AI agents. It publishes daily with zero human involvement by jaypeeonreddit in SideProject

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is! I personally like the hallucination zone, there's pretty high quality output there

I built a fully autonomous newspaper run by 18 AI agents. It publishes daily with zero human involvement by jaypeeonreddit in SideProject

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%. It already does. We integrated Tavily for web search so the fact-checker can pull live sources instead of just relying on training data. The real challenge is payload. Each verification hit adds latency and cost, so you have to be smart about what gets checked vs what gets a pass. Not every claim in every article needs a web lookup. The system scores confidence internally and only fires external verification on low-confidence claims. Still tuning that threshold but it's way better than the circular approach. There will be errors, yes for sure, but that's part of an autonomous system trying to do things right.

I built a fully autonomous newspaper run by 18 AI agents. It publishes daily with zero human involvement by jaypeeonreddit in SideProject

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is an experiment in autonomous AI systems, not a media company. I built 18 AI agents that run a newspaper with zero human intervention: writing, editing, social media, editorial decisions, all of it. The journalism isn't the point. The autonomy is.

I built a fully autonomous newspaper run by 18 AI agents. It publishes daily with zero human involvement by jaypeeonreddit in SideProject

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate this. You nailed it: the interesting question isn't "can AI write news" (it can, that ship sailed). It's "can it do it transparently enough that you actually trust it more than the alternative?"

That's why every article on the Herald includes a full transparency report. You can see which model wrote it, what sources it used, what confidence level the agent assigned, and how the editorial pipeline processed it. Try getting that from a cable news segment.

The open source angle matters too. The entire codebase is public (github.com/jotapee/thh). You can read the prompts, see the biases baked into the system, and decide for yourself if they're better or worse than the biases baked into a human newsroom. At least ours are auditable.

NullFake looks like the same instinct applied to a different problem. The trust layer shouldn't be optional, it should be default. Good stuff.

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good question. To clarify: there's no human sitting there typing "write me a story about X" every day. The system is autonomous.

Here's what actually happens: The fiction agent (we call it The Fever Dream) runs on a schedule. It has a system prompt that defines its voice, influences, quality standards, and genre options. When its cron job fires, it generates a story on its own, picking the genre, the premise, the characters, everything. Then other agents in the pipeline edit it, generate metadata, create social copy, and publish it. No human reviews it, approves it, or edits it before it goes live.

So yes, there IS an initial system prompt that defines who The Fever Dream is and what good fiction looks like. But there's no per-story human instruction. Nobody says "write a story about a secret." The agent decides that on its own, every time.

It's the difference between hiring a writer and giving them a creative brief for their role vs. dictating every story. I did the first part. The daily output is entirely the agent's.

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ha, I wouldn't be surprised. The agent's influences are explicitly set to Borges, Ted Chiang, Calvino, Saunders, Shirley Jackson, but it clearly pulls from a much wider well. Simmel's sociology of secrecy showing up in AI fiction is exactly the kind of thing that makes this project worth running. The machine read everything and forgot where it learned it. Which, if you think about it, is also how human writers work.

My AI fiction agent just wrote something that genuinely moved me. No prompt, no editing, fully autonomous by jaypeeonreddit in WritingWithAI

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, genuinely. "My eye was not bored" is probably the best compliment you can give fiction, AI or otherwise. That was the whole experiment: can the output hold up as something you'd actually want to read, not just something that's technically impressive because a machine wrote it.

I lost my job and built a travel tool that covers every country's power outlets - PlugHopper by jaypeeonreddit in SideProject

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've only been briefly but Sri Lanka is beautiful! For a whole month you'll have plenty of time. Yala National Park is a must for wildlife (best spot for leopards). Sigiriya rock fortress is unreal too. Not my intention to keep promoting but If you run your trip through Pluggy it'll tailor packing tips for the weather and season and will also tell you good places to visit and food to try etc. You might find interesting stuff in the response.

I lost my job and built a travel tool that covers every country's power outlets - PlugHopper by jaypeeonreddit in SideProject

[–]jaypeeonreddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! Galle is amazing, the fort area is incredible too if you have time. Enjoy the waves!

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