Weekly Prompt: This Word Does Not Exist
Until now…
“Oh, this is going to be fun! We are going to get some neat stories out of this prompt… I can feel it,” I say.
“How?” you ask.
“With the help of artificial intelligence.”
“AI? Again? I thought we already did that.”
“We did — with faces. But this is better. This site creates words that do not exist.”
You roll your eyes. “We already had a president who made up words that didn’t exist.”
“This is different,” I say. “This site even lets you type your own words, and then it will create the definition for you, based on suspected etymology.”
“That’s incredible!” you say with a gasp.
“I know! I hope this conversation whets your appetite for storyhatchery.
“Wait,” you say. “Storyhatchery is not a word.”
“Are you sure?” I say. “I found a definition online.”
“What website is that?”
“I knew it! I told you storyhatchery isn’t a real word.”
“Maybe it is a real word, but it has to do with hatching stories; not killing birds.”
“That’s not real.”
“How can you be so sure?” I challenge.
“Type in a real word. That site will tell you if it exists.”
“Okay. I guess you’re right,” I confess. “That is a weird definition of word.”
“AI obviously still has a long way to go,” you say.
For this week’s prompt, your challenge is to write a story that contains a non-existent word. But we can’t just go around making up fake words without any rules. That would be utter chaos.
The first rule is, you must use www.thisworddoesnotexist.com.
The second rule is, you must take a screenshot of your made up word and put it at the bottom of your story. Use SHIFT + COMMAND + 4 on a Mac, or Windows + Shift + S on a PC. You know what they say… ‘Pics or it didn’t happen.’
Here’s a good place to note that if you want to make up your own word, this artificially intelligent site will let you type your made-up word in, then it will conjure up a non-existent meaning.
This prompt is near and dear to my heart because “Centina” and “Pentina” are made up words (although I didn’t use artificial intelligence to make them). Out of sheer curiosity, I entered them into thisworddoesnotexist.com to see what definitions it would create, but it reinforced the fact that this form of artificial intelligence still has a long way to go.
