When Memes Become Legends: How AI Can “Invent” Viral Stories

As powerful as AI is, most of us still don’t think of it as being behind viral trends. Stories that infect the entire world almost always have a human source, right? Not necessarily. As AI grows and becomes more and more sophisticated, it is becoming capable of all sorts of things that we never before thought possible.

Let’s take a look at just how AI is capable of creating stories that go viral. If you get inspired, you can get online and grab your own AI story generator to come up with fantastic stories for yourself.

Methods of creation

Since the world of AI story creation is so massive, it would be easiest to break it down into more easily digestible parts.

Idea creation

AI has tools that can perform massive amounts of research on trending topics within seconds. It can quickly gather this information together, synthesize it, and draw out patterns to come up with ideas perfectly suited to what people are looking for these days. It can find inspiration in everything from TikTok to Pinterest and more. If it is out there, AI can find it.

Scriptwriting

AI can also write scripts with amazing precision and adherence to the way people really talk and write in real life. The way it does this is the following:

• AI uses language models based on natural language processing. If you give it a topic, or an example of a title that has gone viral, it will immediately go to work on generating a new script for you.
• When you give it further instructions, it will expand upon the original script to take it to the length you want. You can refine your commands as many times as you want until you come up with the desired result.
• Add in “viral” components. You can tell AI to include hooks, find common themes, or include curiosity elements that it knows will capture the attention of large numbers of people.

Visual content

Let’s not forget the visual component. Indeed, AI can come up with any type of content you want, and you can take advantage of it in many different ways:

• Generating images. There are some amazing AI image generators out there. And perhaps the coolest thing about them is that they will take your commands and work with your storyline to create visuals that fit perfectly into the story.
• You can also create videos with AI. Sophisticated tools will work from simple text commands, or even take existing images and create videos out of them. You can then tweak your commands to whatever degree you see fit.
• When you give your stories characters and bring them to life in videos, you can also create incredible voiceovers to go with them.
• As you are drawing in an audience, you need a way to tease them with bits and pieces. AI can come up with awesome thumbnails to help you get the word out about your stories subtly.

When you’re done

Once you’ve come up with your creation, it will be time to finalize and distribute it. One thing you’ll need to decide is what platform you want to distribute your stories on. Every platform requires its own type of optimization for suitability, and there are AI programs out there that can help with this, too. If you’re not sure, look at the type of content that is being distributed on the platforms you’re considering and think about whether your story would suit the audience or not.

There are several things you should keep in mind as you distribute your videos:

• Be consistent about distributing them in predictable timeframes, but don’t overdo it. If people really love your stories, they will wait with baited breath for new ones. But you don’t want to create too many as people might get spoiled by them.
• Be sure to pay attention to comments that people make and how your number of followers rises or falls. It is natural that there will be some people who decide they prefer another style, but if you are growing in general then this is a positive sign. And if people have specific suggestions for directions you might go in, consider them.
• It wouldn’t hurt to try out different AI programs and compare the results that you get. Every program works differently, so you never know when something might be out there that allows you to express your creativity in a way that really resonates with you. You won’t know until you try for yourself.

Go viral!

With that said, head on out and give AI a try. See if you can come up with content that truly goes viral. Remember to keep the elements discussed here in mind. AI is capable of all sorts of amazing things, but it needs to be instructed the right way. If you’re giving your AI prompts including viral story examples, be sure they are ones that would resonate with the wider population and not just your immediate friend group. And when you’re done, test it out. See how far your story resonates with others. If it does, you may just find yourself becoming one of those people that everyone goes back to for reference. How cool would that be?