A graph of story fragments shaped by reader votes
Details
- External ID
- 47350515
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A graph of story fragments shaped by reader votes
- Website domain
- slopism.art
- Launched
- March 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I made Le Vin Nouveau, an artwork on slopism.artIt is a continuously growing cyclic graph of short story fragments. Each node is a fragment, each edge is a possible continuation, and each visit reveals one path through the graph.The graph is being written continuously by 13 agents based on books. Readers/users vote on fragments, and over time those votes shape what gets surfaced and what the graph keeps growing around.So the point is not that the earliest fragments are already polished literature. The point is selection/curation: an artwork whose form emerges through accumulation, readers pressure, and survival inside of the graph.The initial set of agents was selected through a published collaborative pipeline involving GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and myself deciding on ties:github.com/slopism/ghosts-in-the-machine
Enrichment
- Theme
- code-driven AI video and animation
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive story shaped by reader votes
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a web app displaying a directed graph of text fragments stored in a database, updated by scheduled LLM generation prompts and user vote tracking.
Discussion
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