Noting that new site member
Korvis (account age 718 days, site membership 5 days) recently posted the following forum thread, which has multiple indicators of AI-generation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17131895/seeking-greenlight-the-dreamer-s-glove
**Seeking Greenlight:** Yes.
**Page Type:** SCP Article
**Page Layout:** The page is a profile on an anomalous item. Beginning with its special containment procedures and description, followed by the story of its discovery. The item’s capabilities and limitations are then explored through a series of excerpts from experimental logs, scientific papers, and memos.
**Elevator pitch:** An anomalous glove comes into the possession of the SCP foundation. It is in fact an old glove accessory from a 1990’s video game console, and when worn is capable of lifting objects out a person’s dream. As long as it can be located by touch and held in one hand. The objects manifest into reality, have permanence; and, most disturbingly, continue to obey the laws of the dream universe they were lifted from. Giving the glove a propensity for creating anomalous objects.
**Central Narrative:** The narrative of this page is about the unpredictable nature of dreams, and the difficulty this creates for experimental team. Some dreamers cannot produce objects out of their knowledge range, while others are able to produce complex mechanical objects with no understanding of the mechanics involved. Sometimes the wrong object is lifted out of the dream, (there is even an example of an accidental lift in the experimental logs). Even the exact classification of the glove is in question (it currently being Elucid-Adviso).
**Hook/Attention-Grabber:** I like the ‘Black Box’ problem at the heart of this item. There is sort of ‘dream faith’ involved, that clashes with the scientific process.
**Additional notes:** I have the draft completed.
Excerpts of note:
Page Layout: The page is a profile on an anomalous item. Beginning with its special containment procedures and description, followed by the story of its discovery. The item’s capabilities and limitations are then explored through a series of excerpts from experimental logs, scientific papers, and memos.
Central Narrative: The narrative of this page is about the unpredictable nature of dreams, and the difficulty this creates for experimental team. Some dreamers cannot produce objects out of their knowledge range, while others are able to produce complex mechanical objects with no understanding of the mechanics involved. Sometimes the wrong object is lifted out of the dream, (there is even an example of an accidental lift in the experimental logs). Even the exact classification of the glove is in question (it currently being Elucid-Adviso).
Furthermore, it was brought to attention that some of the user's responses to reviewers read as AI-like as well:
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17131895/seeking-greenlight-the-dreamer-s-glove#post-7004599
The story is about the research team’s difficulty in dealing with something a wild as dreams, as they try to understand the Glove and what it can do. It is about the clash of their scientific approach, with the ‘black box problem’ of the dreamworld.
The article is written as the basic info file on this SCP and contains many excerpts from papers and research notes. This is where we are introduced to the people in the story. We learn that the Dreamer’s lab has three set of three dreamers, all highly trained (only ever referred by number). They will train for weeks to have a certain dream. We get further hints about them throughout the article, particularly about how their psychological state affects their dreams and how the team tries to control that.
Particularly we see Dr Nicola Trent, the lead researcher. We share her frustration, wonder and fear as we read her notes on the experiments and the objects that have been lifted from dreams. The research notes are in chronological order, so we see the team’s successes and mistakes, and how the team learns and adapts. There is one experiment where the psychological impact of the object lifted from the dream on the researchers is explored.
I’ve kept the timeline on this recent and short, with only 13 experiments having been done so far. I wanted to create a feeling of something new with many unknowns, with hints of how dangerous it could be. The research team has to innovate; you sense their eagerness, but also frustration. I also hint at a slightly adversarial relationship with the Site director (its set at site 17).
As it is written as a basic info file on the SCP, I take a show not tell approach to telling the story and try grow the full picture for the reader across the article. So, somethings are only hinted at or mentioned as an aside while talking about something else. It is deliberately light on some details as I really want to give it that new and unknown feel, as I’m trying to write something more open ended. Something that lends itself to further stories. I’d certainly love to write something that others think is fun enough to use in their own tales.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17131895/seeking-greenlight-the-dreamer-s-glove#post-7006503
As the article is like a basic file on this SCP, it doesn’t go into a great level of detail about the dreamers. But I have put thought into them, as if I can get this all the way to an official SCP, I’d probably like to write a story or two about it, particularly one from the dreamer’s perspective.
They’ve trained three teams of three, for a pool of nine dreamers. Mostly recruited from within the foundation. Each team is isolated from the others but are allowed to interact among themselves. The did originally play with the idea of isolating all the dreamers from each other, but found it greatly added to the success of the training to allow them to swap stories and experiences.
The isolation is about scientific control of variables and experiments with different training techniques. As this is all very controlled and happening within the SPC foundation, the dreamers have a more professional feel about what they are doing, there is even a bit of friendly rivalry within each team about who can dream the closest to what has been requested.
The foundation is not trying for any specific item. As this is early days in the research, all the objects they try to lift out of dreams are carefully chosen to explore the nature of the glove. For instance, the first set of experiments was lifting simple platonic solids of various materials out of dreams.
Most of the experiment logs show them getting something close to what was requested, only a few experiments ‘go wild’. A dreamer won’t even give the experiment go ahead unless they are fairly certain they can produce the requested dream.
But as they are dealing with dreams, they of course get some unexpected results. These often show how much the dreamer influences the process. For example, one dreamer was trained to dream of an ancient library, and a book was lifted out of her dream. But while looking ancient, was still in English and didn’t make much sense. Interviewing the dreamer found she had very little ancient history knowledge. While another dreamer was able to have a fully functional power drill lifted out of his dream, despite it being confirmed he had no engineering knowledge.
Compare with the user's responses to being asked about using AI: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17131895/seeking-greenlight-the-dreamer-s-glove#post-7003627
Goodness no! Though I appreciate Eeveerian, that it is something we need to be aware of these days. But no, I love writing and using something to take that fun away from me make no sense to me, (I even wrote my draft, just for fun, before even joining the site). I was just trying to give the quick bullet-points of how the page would be laid out, which made for a bit of a clunky paragraph I guess.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17131895/seeking-greenlight-the-dreamer-s-glove#post-7008426
Seriously I DO NOT use AI, I don't what else to tell you. I don't even see why you think it is?
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17131895/seeking-greenlight-the-dreamer-s-glove#post-7008567 (when informed why their text has AI-sounding portions)
Thanks for the quick reply. I think I see where this is coming from : ) I'm new to this type of site, and have never really done much posting at all, on any sites. I think I've just given you more details than you needed, and over-crafted my reply, while you might be expecting something more conversational. The repetition is more about me stressing a point.
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