#robotic overlords

[nixcraft]

WARNING! Do not listen to Machine. It may attempt to do other things it shouldn't.

[celestial-fang]

The Internet

[sara-paints]

... And DONE. Pretty happy with the paint job, he looks much better than he did before and now fits much better with my new models. The arms are at slightly different angles now than the WIP pics because I gently knocked him over and BOTH of them fell off... >_<

[ratsypatsy]

OverSwerve is a great ship, you should like it as well 😈😈

[theshadowrealmitself]

Have I ever explained this concept I’m obsessed with?

Person who ends up cryogenically frozen for awhile™️ wakes up finally and it’s to a strange world where there’s robots everywhere

With their image

Turns out their best friend didn’t take their disappearance well and kept making replica after replica of them because they couldn’t quite nail the personality down, and after awhile, without having seen the original in forever, the robots have become copies of copies of copies (essentially, very flanderized versions of the Human)

The best friend also made a ton of other robots and essentially became an evil overlord (their just woken up friend is Not Impressed™️) leading to the creation of a resistance group set out to stop them

The Human (who is absolutely confused at the moment and a bit scared) runs into the resistance group and they think they’re a defective bot (because even tho the personalities are off, the appearances aren’t off except for blemishes getting erased) who thinks they’re real

And they’re like “if this robot thinks it’s a Human, who are we to deny it Humanity” while the Human keeps trying to explain they are a Human, and also trying to avoid getting caught and “reprogrammed” by bot versions of themself

(2 other fun things in this: they used to make robots with their friend and after their disappearance their friend used a lot of their stuff to make new robots and so a ton of things have the Human’s failsafes and backup codes so other robotic things are no problem for them, only their bot selves, which were made completely new after they disappeared are a problem, and a few of the first gen robots they made are still around and recognized them immediately and keep trying to track their maker down but the resistance group keeps interfering)

Can never really think of a satisfying ending with the rebellion group because it always just boils down to the Human finally kicking the door down to face their friend and being like “what the fuck did you do in my image????”

(And then my brain tries to make it more convoluted by being like “and then it turns out that’s actually not even their friend, their friend died awhile ago and left behind a robot version of themself which is why they suddenly started acting so weird and supervillain-y evil and they never actually get to see each other again, they both just ended up with funhouse artificial versions of each other, and there is no satisfying ending confrontation, there never will be”)

[cuppajj]

The longer i take a break from drawing transformers and think about other things, the stronger my emotion is when i remember this fucker exists and I love him, i love to hate him, i go back and see him doing his evil robot shit and im like “wow. FUCK THAT guy in particular.” i love overlord so much and i want him to have a miserable life

[micah-pl]

TRANSFORMERS GAYBOT SHOWDOWN ROUND 1 POLL #31

[ribbondove]

this'll all be yours, past-unit

[mvlderfox]

Gillian Anderson in Robot Overlords

[asksploodge]

Butt kicking abilities.

[magistralucis]

Oh that's a Fancy Man (x)

[sgrb-archive]

Overlord Master Concept Art by João Pedro Sustelo

[wyrm-with-a-why]

Overlord wears this trust

[elismor]

These days, it seems to be fashionable to refuse to believe that AI has any possible use beyond "plagiarizing" (please look up the actual definition of that word?) fic, so I wanted to share a brief list of questions I have asked MS Copilot and Perplexity as a demonstration that the bots can actually be leveraged to HELP fic authors.

Generate a list of one to two word writing prompts about things soldiers experience while at war.

using the list above, iterate to add 12 prompts that touch on the lighter side of life in a military unit

What are some good names for a secret society?

using the list above, iterate to include fraternal organizations comprised of soldiers

Generate a list of possible titles for a story about brotherhood, loss, and the horrors of war

re-generate the list above with a tone of sadness or mourning

To be clear, I have not used any of the results wholesale. The titles query in particular produced a set of very cliche and overly dramatic possibilities, no matter how many times I refined the ask. The prompts were pretty decent and I cherry picked them to add to other lists of prompts I've gathered, then used AI to randomly shuffle the list, divide it into sections of 25, shuffle those 25 in each section, etc. This was done to make personal bingo cards and I'm pretty pleased with the results. In the case of the question about the secret society, the AI tendency toward the absurd actually worked in my favor, though I did not like any of the answers well enough to choose it.

AI can be incredibly useful when you are stuck on something.

what are six ways a man might escape from a burning building?

generate a list of four types of injury that would prevent a person from walking, but would not be fatal

how might a robot respond to being teased by humans in a sci-fi setting?

in layman's terms, explain the science behind the concept of hyperspace travel in sci-fi

Those are all ways of generating ideas that you can then chew on and adapt for your own use rather than sitting and staring at a blank page or blinking cursor. AI can help you brainstorm.

I haven't tried this yet, but I bet it could also help you figure out what the cliches in any given genre are so you can either lean in or run away from them.  Something like "in Star Wars fan fiction, what are the most common ways Obi-Wan Kenobi and Commander Cody flirt with one another?" might produce a list of Codywan tropes that either sparks your imagination or makes you laugh hysterically.

There's a lot of worry that AI will replace artists and writers and, yeah, there are people who are using it to create things out of whole cloth. We're all entitled to our opinions on that (mine are deeply conflicting and still forming, tbh). But we shouldn't damn the tool because we perceive that people are abusing it. The tool can help you if you let it.

[ratchets-old-hands]

I routinely find myself thinking about this scene because WHY IS IT PHRASED LIKE A BIRTH SCENE (I know its because James Roberts wrote it). I just. *bewildered gesturing*

[elaiz]

A scene with young Overlord for @emperor-kumquat