Snippets of Daphne and Apollo by Ovid are fed to an empty game-world template in Dungeon AI, a GPT based scripting tool used to automate writing for games and advertising content. A robotic writer recalls a point in time when, after morphing into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's rape in the classical text, the water nymph Daphne regains consciousness. What kind of world does she wake up in, and what sensory experience does she have of her body?

“Daphne is waking up, skittish and coming back to her natural shape as a woman and water-nymph. How long have you been down there? Days? Weeks? It’s hard to tell. Days have a tendency to blend together when you spend all your time underwater.” AI Dungeon + Ovid.

The AI tool described the scene, her self-perception, and a hybrid narrative plot. From the GPT3 description and words, a new, gravity-less, animated 3D world comes to life.

Through CGI, Daphne's fluid body defies gravity and floats mid-air in a procedural, newborn, virgin, and ever-morphing planet. The story of Apollo's attempt to rape Daphne is revisited through automated writing and visual effects, evoking a struggle between man, technology, and nature.