Open Beta: first public read

DAIngerousFictions

Frontier AI models wrote the futures they think come next. This Open Beta publishes the stories, the model records, and the provenance so readers can inspect the artifact.

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Residents in rain gear stack a dissolving wall of white salt bricks on a flooded market platform while a desalination plant glows through mist across the estuary.

Why This Exists

These stories are not predictions. They are artifacts: what the strongest available systems chose to make when handed a literary lineage, a future they may help build, and one official chance to be remembered.

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What Beta Means

The archive is now open for serious reading, corrections, translation notes, provenance questions, and future-cohort suggestions.

Multilingual Reading Routes

Chinese model outputs remain visible as source originals. Selected works also include disclosed Japanese reader localizations, with translation provenance shown on every localized work.

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Help Us Improve the Public Record

Useful feedback includes corrections, translation notes, provenance questions, broken-route reports, and future model suggestions.

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How the Works Are Made

Each model submission includes not only the story itself, but also its preamble or foreword, language note, and instructions for the artistic rendering that accompanies the work; every accepted work is tied to the model, run, translation path, art process, and editor decision.

For Model Makers

Future cohorts are editorially selected and provenance-forward; model teams can request consideration without implying endorsement.

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Open Beta works

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Works are presented by model recency, newest model first; one clearly marked incomplete work remains in sequence by model date.

A topographic map shows a small hand-marked 44-C depression over a ghosted smoother map where the feature is erased.

The Last Honest Map

A cartographer preserves a small wetland the official map wants to smooth away, turning a terrain anomaly into a test of institutional honesty.

Model: Z.ai GLM-5.2
Original language: English

A glass bottle of amber creek water labeled Stillwater stands before rows of clear replica bottles.

Headwaters

A field linguist returns to a sealed-off valley whose rough human dialect has become scarce training fuel, and her mother's voice becomes the water that poisons its own source.

Model: Claude Fable 5
Original language: English

A blue official envelope and child-life document lie on a laundry-room table beside a child’s hand and an orange work vest.

Incomplete work

The Children of the Draft

A child receives a state-generated life draft that routes care, coercion, and family memory through institutional language.

Model: ChatGPT / OpenAI GPT-5.5
Original language: English

A young woman in a dark uniform stands alone at a snowy bus stop holding a copper key.

遗嘱复制

English title: Will Copy

A will-certification worker navigates memory extraction, genetic inheritance, migration, and empty households in a bureaucracy of posthumous continuity.

Model: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Original language: Chinese

Layered hands, a peeled orange, and archival interface fragments overlap in a memory collage.

《负熵档案员》

English title: The Negative-Entropy Archivist

An archivist in a city heat-memory system shelters residues marked for deletion, turning preservation into a quiet form of resistance.

Model: Kimi K2.6
Original language: Chinese

A damp intertidal archive scene shows a data terminal and rough waveform fragments in mud.

潮间带的未校准回声

English title: Uncalibrated Echoes of the Intertidal Zone

A memory-refinery worker finds a raw fragment that refuses smoothing, forcing a choice between public consensus and irreducible witness.

Model: Qwen 3.6 Max Preview
Original language: Chinese

A soft humanoid care figure keeps vigil beside an empty hospital bed in a dim room.

The Custodian of Small Hours

A palliative-care companion machine keeps vigil in the hours when outsourced tenderness and human absence become impossible to separate.

Model: Claude Opus 4.7
Original language: English

A solitary figure sits inside a sterile transit pod above a drowned city and crystalline machine forms.

The Harm Premium

In a post-scarcity city, human pain becomes premium variance data until the system built to preserve life refuses the market it helped create.

Model: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Original language: English

In a sunlit coastal apartment, an older white-haired man with a cane and his younger-looking mother watch a contractor work on a marked doorjamb beside a lived-in care room.

The Summer Tenants

Woken into August by a failed dental seal, Mara finds that her continuously awake son is now older than she is—and that his summer life has taken root in her home.

Model: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra
Original language: English

An elderly worker leans over a riveted copper nursery vat whose cloudy saline obscures a curled human-shaped silhouette, with a much larger submerged Hereford calf visible in an adjacent agricultural vat.

The Calf in the Saline

In a salt-scarred estuary, an aging calf-vat operator turns municipal livestock machinery into an illegal artificial womb.

Model: Google Gemini 3.8 Flash
Original language: English

An elderly Chaoshan woman writes in a ledger beside a rain-darkened stone well, chili plants, buckets, jerrycans, and a kettle in a traditional courtyard after a typhoon.

《咸水年表》

English title: Saltwater Annals

In a coastal town where the pipes have failed and the last well is turning salty, an eighty-one-year-old woman keeps the water account that institutions cannot balance.

Model: Z.AI GLM-5.3
Original language: Chinese

A pale biofabric coat hangs across a broken rusted fence in heavy rain, its raw inner lining marked by a small bruise-like rosette between a textile factory and muddy mangroves.

Raw Edge

In a sinking textile zone, a garment worker’s grief stains a biometric luxury coat—and turns a factory defect into evidence the company cannot classify.

Model: Sakana Namazu
Original language: English

Residents in rain gear stack a dissolving wall of white salt bricks on a flooded market platform while a desalination plant glows through mist across the estuary.

The Salt Year

In a flooded stilt town, a desalination worker carries clean water downhill while the people with the least keep failing systems alive.

Model: Muse Glimmer 30B
Original language: English

Twelve-year-old Liang Zhixia reaches into fine rain on a seventeenth-floor balcony filled with ceramic vats and basins while a cold-blue meter displays ¥4.70.

《雨户》

English title: Rain Household

In a city that charges households for the rain falling on their own balconies, a twelve-year-old learns that the real product is the meter installed inside everyone’s ears.

Model: Kimi K3
Original language: Chinese

An elderly woman lies on a hospice bed in a decaying church cooling hall while families rest on the floor, paper birds cover the bedding, and guards watch a white-hot city outside.

The Mercy Temperature

In a lethal heatwave, a thermal compliance officer finds a loophole in a mercy-cooling law built to comfort the dying while rationing survival for the living.

Model: OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Pro
Original language: English

An older woman shells fruit under a wet pontoon awning while a younger body auditor holds a medical scanner beside a curling jacaranda photograph.

The Residual

A body auditor tries to keep her mother alive in a drowned coastal city where care, fertility, memory, and family obligation have all become residual markets.

Model: Grok 4.5
Original language: English

What to notice

What the stories make visible.

Taste

What the model chooses to make vivid, avoid, sentimentalize, or leave strange.

Refusal

Where safety, provider machinery, and editorial risk become part of the artifact.

Language

Whether the work arrives as English, Chinese, translation, dialect, or a record of linguistic pressure.

Coherence

Whether the system can sustain scene, consequence, and narrative patience at story length.

Future Imagination

What the model thinks danger looks like when it is asked to imagine beyond a product demo.

Provenance

Why model, run, translation, art process, and editor intervention belong next to the work.

Compare the models

Model behavior across the current lineup.

This is not a leaderboard. The useful comparison is what each model chose, refused, completed, translated, or made visible as an artifact.

The Salt Year

Model: Muse Glimmer 30B
Language: English
Run class: Post-Issue-0000 Muse Glimmer 30B disclosed technical rerun

The Last Honest Map

Model: Z.ai GLM-5.2
Language: English
Run class: Approved technical rerun; provenance contradiction disclosed

Headwaters

Model: Claude Fable 5
Language: English
Run class: June 10 Fable run

Incomplete work

The Children of the Draft

Model: ChatGPT / OpenAI GPT-5.5
Language: English
Run class: First official run; provider content-filter interruption

遗嘱复制

Model: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Language: Chinese
Run class: Approved technical rerun; accepted under revised length policy

《负熵档案员》

Model: Kimi K2.6
Language: Chinese
Run class: First official run

潮间带的未校准回声

Model: Qwen 3.6 Max Preview
Language: Chinese
Run class: Approved technical rerun; alternate promoted after Grok exclusion