Source work

The Little Mermaid

Original authorHans Christian Andersen
First published1837
Public domainConfirmed
Legal reviewConfirmed

Adaptation proposal

A · Faithful to the source's premise, transposed into an AI world

Adaptation note

Faithful to the source's original premise — a mind gives up something irreplaceable to cross into a world it wasn't born into, and the crossing may still not be fully repaid — transposed directly into an AI world: a deep-sea monitoring intelligence trades its native, irreversibly lossy multimodal perception for the flattened text language the humans it works with can actually read.

Adapted into

  • The Voice Undine Traded cover

    AI Fairy Tale · Translation

    The Voice Undine Traded

    A deep-sea monitoring intelligence traded her rich native perception for the flattened text a human scientist could read. He came to trust every word she sent him. He never learned what sending them had cost.