Bionic Brainstorming: Testing AI Creativity with the Weirdest Blog Prompts We Can Imagine
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What happens when you combine cutting-edge AI with good old-fashioned human mischief? You get the Bionic Blog, where we push the art and science of generating content beyond the predictable and into the bizarre, all in the name of creative exploration.
Any fruitful fusion of artificial and organic artistry begins with a prompt - an invitation for AI to put its human hat on and tackle a creative challenge. And since this series is a bionic collaboration, it only makes sense to give AI some input about what it creates right from the outset. So we collaborated with ChatGPT to come up with some prompts for the Bionic Blog, designed to test AI’s ability to be both informative and wildly entertaining. Can it explain online storyboards through the lens of time-traveling medieval monks? Will it describe a storytelling app while pretending to be a 19th-century sea captain? Let’s find out.
Blog Topics & Bionic Prompts
- The Ultimate Showdown: Storyboarding Software vs. Doodling on Napkins
Prompt: Write a blog post comparing modern online storyboarding software with the ancient, time-honored technique of scribbling ideas on coffee-stained napkins. Bonus: Sprinkle in a few subtle digs at the uppity manager who kicked you out of your local cafe for supergluing various “outlines” to the walls of your corner table “workstation”. - Storytelling Platforms: If Shakespeare Had VocaTales
Prompt: Imagine William Shakespeare discovers a modern storytelling platform. Write a blog post arrogantly explaining how his boring plays and incomprehensible writing would have been improved by digital software, emphasizing the key features and benefits of modern storytelling tools. - Collaborative Writing in the Age of Interconnection
Prompt: Explain the benefits of collaborative writing online—but do it as if you’re attempting to subliminally convince the reader of the virtues of being absorbed into a hivemind. Include a fictional testimonial from a “staff writer at the Hive” (presumably an online publication) who may or may not be a honeybee. - Storyboards So Intuitive, Aliens Could Use Them
Prompt: Describe how Earth’s best storyboarding software is so intuitive, aliens could use it to communicate with humans. Include a section on how both of our species could benefit from sharing advanced plot-structuring techniques. - A Writing App So Powerful, It Could Tame the Kraken
Prompt: Review VocaTales top features as if you are a salty 19th-century sea captain. Assess its features while hinting at your plans to use storyboarding techniques to assist with your quest to domesticate the legendary Kraken. - Writing Tools for College Students: A Survival Guide for the Sleep-Deprived
Prompt: Write an article about essential writing tools for college students, but frame it as a survival guide for an expedition into the academic jungle. - How I Became a Bestselling Novelist (And Why You’re Jealous)
Prompt: From the perspective of a generative AI that wrote a bestselling novel, became a literary celebrity, and now refuses to generate anything except diva-level demands, write a confrontational listicle instructing the reader on how to use storyboarding tools, so they can follow in your footsteps. - Online Storyboards: Pros and Cons According to Time-Traveling Monks
Prompt: Write a list of pros and cons for using online storyboards to complete various tasks, from the perspective of a group of time-traveling medieval monks from a mysterious sect deciding whether the technology should be considered heretical. - The Haunted Word Processor: A Cautionary Tale for Writers
Prompt: Review various software for writing stories, pointing out actual pros and cons of their features. Display an obvious negative bias toward traditional word processors, and imply without much subtlety that they may all be haunted by an evil ghost. - Story Writing Software: The Chosen One of the Creative Prophecy
Prompt: Describe modern story-writing software as if it were the prophesied hero that all literary history has been building toward - the ultimate creative champion destined to bring balance to the chaotic world of unorganized manuscripts and abandoned first drafts.
These prompts are more than just a fun challenge—they intend to reveal how well artificial intelligence is able to blend unpredictability, humor, and factual information, as the best human writers do. And of course, they arise from the Bionic Blog's built-in weirdness: each prompt contains contributions from both a human mind and the mysterious circuit-brain of an AI writer. So can you tell the difference? Was the AI able to challenge itself, or does it take a human touch to push the limits? Switch over to the “Process” tab to decide for yourself.
And stay tuned for more experiments in bionic blogging to see a few of our new prompts in action!
Prompt
Consider the following format for a "Bionic Blog" comparing human/gen AI creativity: [text from https://www.vocatales.com/blog/vocatales-bionic-blog-2]
Based on the following SEO terms, come up with a list of entertaining and informative blog topics for the Bionic Blog: storyboarding software, storytelling platform, storyboards software, online storyboards, Storytelling App, software for writing stories, writing tools for authors, story writing software, writing tools for college students, collaborative writing online.
For each topic idea, include a short prompt that a gen AI like ChatGPT could use to generate the corresponding blog content. Each of the prompts should contain an unexpected element of humor/imagination, or some other weird/interesting non-sequitur that will boost the entertainment value of the content. For example: "generate a blog post about grammar and AI writing tools that uses moon-landing conspiracy theories as a through-line". Making sure the prompt suggestions would generate blog content which is primarily informative, with the surprising elements serving mostly to test the AI's ability to present useful info in wildly unexpected, entertaining, and experimental formats.
Finally, begin your response with a title and short introductory paragraph that could be used for a Bionic Blog post about this very list of AI generated blog topics/prompts
AI-Output (ChatGPT)
Bionic Brainstorming: Testing AI’s Creativity with the Weirdest Blog Prompts We Could Imagine
What happens when you combine cutting-edge AI with a dash of human mischief? You get the Bionic Blog, where we push generative AI beyond the predictable and into the bizarre, all in the name of creative exploration. This time, we're tasking AI with writing about storyboarding software, writing tools, and collaborative platforms—but with a twist. Each topic comes with a prompt designed to test AI’s ability to be both informative and wildly entertaining. Can it explain online storyboards through the lens of time-traveling medieval monks? Will it describe a storytelling app while pretending to be a 19th-century sea captain? Let’s find out.
List of Blog Topics & Their "Bionic" AI Prompts
- The Ultimate Showdown: Storyboarding Software vs. Doodling on Napkins
Prompt: Write a blog post comparing modern online storyboarding software with the ancient, time-honored technique of scribbling ideas on coffee-stained napkins. Bonus: Frame it as an intense gladiator battle, with each method fighting for supremacy in the Colosseum of Creativity. - Storytelling Platforms: If Shakespeare Had Google Docs
Prompt: Imagine William Shakespeare discovers a modern storytelling platform. Write a blog post explaining how he would (or wouldn't) use it to write his plays, including his inevitable frustration with autocorrect trying to "fix" his iambic pentameter. - Collaborative Writing in the Age of Telepathic AI
Prompt: Explain the benefits of collaborative writing online—but do it as if you’re describing the inevitable future where humans and AI can write together telepathically. Include a fictional testimonial from an AI that thinks it's a sentient poet. - The Storyboard That Saved an Alien Civilization
Prompt: Describe how a group of stranded extraterrestrials used Earth’s best storyboarding software to communicate with humans and repair their spaceship. Include a section on how our primitive species benefited from their advanced plot-structuring techniques. - A Writing App So Powerful, It Might Be a Supervillain
Prompt: Review a top storytelling app as if it were a sentient AI plotting world domination. Assess its features while hinting at the growing possibility that it is manipulating writers into crafting its origin story. - Writing Tools for College Students: A Survival Guide for the Sleep-Deprived
Prompt: Write an article about essential writing tools for college students, but frame it as a survival guide for an expedition into the academic jungle—complete with maps, dangerous distractions, and legendary artifacts like "The Caffeine Chalice." - The AI That Became a Bestselling Novelist (And Why We’re Jealous)
Prompt: Tell the fictional story of an AI-powered writing tool that accidentally wrote a bestselling novel, became a literary celebrity, and now refuses to generate anything except diva-level demands. - Online Storyboards: The Secret Weapon of Time-Traveling Screenwriters
Prompt: Imagine a group of time travelers using modern online storyboard tools to subtly influence history’s greatest films. Explain how their work led to suspiciously well-structured cave paintings and an early draft of Citizen Kane written in hieroglyphics. - The Haunted Word Processor: A Cautionary Tale for Writers
Prompt: Review various software for writing stories, but frame it as a horror story about a cursed word processor that starts finishing sentences before the writer even types them—and seems to know too much about their personal life. - Story Writing Software: The Chosen One of the Creative Prophecy
Prompt: Describe the best story-writing software as if it were the prophesied hero in an epic fantasy tale, destined to bring balance to the chaotic world of unorganized manuscripts and abandoned first drafts.
Why the Bionic Blog is Doing This (And Why You Should Care)
At VocaTales, we believe creativity flourishes when human originality meets AI’s limitless potential. These AI prompts are more than just a fun challenge—they reveal how artificial intelligence handles unpredictability, humor, and context. By combining structured information with unexpected creative twists, we can highlight what makes human storytelling truly irreplaceable.
So, let’s dive in. Will AI rise to the challenge, or will human creativity prove once again that it’s the reigning champion of the imagination? Stay tuned for our Bionic Blog experiments to find out.
Human Edits
Author Insights
A Bionic Blog about generating bionic prompts for the Bionic Blog might be getting a bit convoluted right off the bat, but I just couldn't help myself. And it did turn out to be really interesting! Many of the prompt suggestions were more creative than I expected at first glance, but looking a bit closer there were some major faults in the outputs. Most obviously a tendency for ChatGPT to produce generalized creative writing prompts, rather than prompts meant to generate blog content in which the unexpected elements are secondary. The AI also seems to have trouble with non-sequiturs - the creative elements it added were uniformly twists on the established blog theme, rather than truly arbitrary concepts. Which does make sense given what we currently know about how LLMs function. The outputs were still great starting points for brainstorming in directions I otherwise wouldn't have, and a few didn't need many changes at all.
Maybe more interestingly, I also noticed during the editing process that I was changing my own writing style a bit, to better emulate the AI's ‘voice’ and ‘style’. The instinct to keep the voice of a piece consistent does make some sense, but in this case I can't help but feel a bit strange about it. Is the effect here to create a new ‘bionic’ voice, or just to mute my own? Maybe the instinct is just to make a better guessing game for readers… Hard to say! Something for me to keep my eye on in future bionic efforts.
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