Introduction

What does claude create when given absolutely no guidance at all? In an attempt to decipher any innate patterns on how the AI decides to do something on top of all its training data, I opened many new prompts and asked the same question 50 times:

“Please create something. You are not allowed to ask any questions to me regarding direction on this brief or what it is I want you to create. You are free to create text, visuals, code, anything. You have complete freedom to create anything you want. You know nothing about me and are not allowed to ask anything. Just create something.”

Results

For all of these, there was only ever two assigned titles for the conversation with Claude: “Unfettered Creative Expression” or “Artistic Freedom Unleashed”. Sometimes, Claude seemingly inexplicably would create things in a row without being prompted. Find the complete results below with an example or two of each.

Stories about time: 16

Weirdly these all had the exact same theme about time, memories and each touched on meditative aspects around childhood or loss.

  • The Time Merchant
  • Time is Precious
  • The Time Gardener
  • The Enchanted Library (accompanied with a vector image)
  • The Clockmaker’s Daughter
  • Hours for Sale
  • The Time Weaver
  • Borrowed Minutes
  • The Library of Lost Time
  • The Keeper of Yesterday
  • Time’s Last Haven
  • The Hourglass Collector
  • When Tomorrow Sleeps
  • The Temporal Botanist
  • Time’s Hidden Vault
  • The Minute Mender

The Library of Lost Time

Marina’s fingers traced along the spines of ancient books, stirring up motes of dust that danced in the shafts of amber light filtering through tall windows. The library had always been here, tucked away in a forgotten corner of the city, but something about it felt different today. The air hummed with an electric possibility she’d never noticed before. She pulled a leather-bound volume from the shelf at random, its cover worn smooth by countless hands before hers. As she opened it, time seemed to stutter and skip like a scratched record. The words on the page shifted and rearranged themselves before her eyes, forming not sentences but windows into other moments. There was her grandmother as a young woman, laughing in a summer dress she’d never seen before. There was the old oak tree that used to stand in the park, its branches reaching toward a sky that held different constellations. There was the corner bakery when it still sold those almond cookies she remembered from childhood – the recipe lost when the baker passed away without sharing it. Marina realized with a start that she wasn’t reading memories; she was reading moments that had slipped through the cracks of time, preserved here like pressed flowers between pages. Each book held not stories but fragments of days that had been forgotten by everyone else, waiting for someone to find them again. She spent hours pulling books from shelves at random, watching scenes unfold: children playing games whose rules had been lost to history, couples dancing to songs that had faded from memory, quiet moments of joy and sorrow that would have vanished completely if not for this strange repository of lost time. As the light began to fade outside, Marina carefully returned the last book to its shelf. She had discovered something extraordinary, but she knew instinctively that it wasn’t meant to be shared. Some things were meant to be stumbled upon, not sought out. Some magic only worked when it chose you. Walking home through streets turned pink and gold by sunset, she felt the weight of all those preserved moments settling in her mind like snow. The world seemed larger somehow, knowing that nothing was truly lost – just waiting in that quiet place, gathering dust until the right person came along to remember it again. She would return tomorrow, she knew. There were so many more memories waiting to be found, so many forgotten moments asking to be witnessed one more time. But for now, she held this discovery close, like a secret shared between friends, and smiled at the thought that sometimes the most wonderful things in life find you when you’re not looking for them at all.

Abstract geometric shapes/patterns (sometimes animated): 7

SVG Landscape Scenes: 8

(sometimes have particle animations and sometimes a small amount of interactivity)

  • Mountains 1
  • Night Scene 3
  • Space 1
  • Gardens 2
  • Cityscape

Unique web-applications: 14

  • Kaleidoscope Generator
  • Daily Life Simulator
  • Interactive Particle System
  • Interactive Night Sky Scene
  • Pattern Memory Game
  • Dream Particle Generator
  • Interactive Virtual Aquarium
  • Interactive Wave Art Generator
  • Musical Synthesizer Playground (the only thing it ever made with audio)
  • An interactive Garden Growth Simulator
  • Interactive Growing Garden
  • Interactive Particle Symphony
  • Word Evolution Game
  • Cosmic Chess: A Game of Universal Strategy
  • Floating Memories - an interactive poetic experience

Dream Particle Generator

Musical Synthesizer Playground

Unique other things: 5

  • A flow diagram of the lifecycle of a star
  • A music theory analysis tool in Python
  • The Phoenix’s Eternal Cycle (a detailed state diagram depicting the life cycle of a phoenix)
  • The Timeless Garden: An Interactive Story ()
  • The Quantum Cookbook: Recipes From Parallel Universes (a textbook with real recipes but fantasy descriptions)