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I would return that book to the store
I've been writing a dinky little coffeeshop mystery for the past two years. I'm 2/3 of the way through and its been a lot of work. I'm not perfect but its been heck.
Stuff like this makes me really sad. I think anyone caught taking shortcuts like that as an author should be banned from the industry.
See, this is the kind of extreme, unbridled laziness that gives regular laziness a bad name.
SOunds like AI generated book.
Jesus. That's one hell of an own goal. I promise that anyone who looks at my photographs online is seeing the real deal. I mean, no one would use AI to make that shite.
Ah, fuck, I'm cooked...
I thought the book added that as a threat. Like "don't make write this stupid nonsense, because I will."
AI-written books are the equivalent of chalkboards in movies covered with random, meaningless equations meant to look sciency.
No cuz at least a human actually took the time to scrawl that shit on there
Thankfully, the venn diagram between people who don't read and people who use AI is a circle. Makes it easier to tell
I mean, the one thing you need to be able to do to use an Large Language Model is to read and write.
Hey, I can use AI to summarize!
Or ... Ask it to tell me a story ... Whateves works
I read my AI responses tho
Not only do AI boosters not write, they don't even read the stuff they don't write.
Why would I read that stuff when I can have AI summarize it for me?
Alternatively, I'll put a book on a earbud and listen at to two books at once at 5x speed! While on a date!
Maximum Efficiency!!!
"A bad reader cannot be a good writer", nobody knew that advice could get even more true.
Honestly AI writing is so fucking bad you can read a couple paragraphs and know its AI. Just makes going to a book store and opening the book up for a quick look before buying it worth it again.
technically, there are ways to make AI writing good and go beyond blunt imitation. However, to do so requires a very peculiar framework with rigid ruleset, specific sources and style guide and the progress will be extrememly incremental and you'll do much of the heavy lifting regardless - so it kinda defeats the idea of being fast and cheap and it won't handle much writing in a regular sense.
you’ll do much of the heavy lifting regardless
i.e. it works as long as the AI has a human ghost writer.
it will be just writing the whole setting and its rules and everything inside to the point you can train a model to generate bits in controlled environment. so basically a fancy text adventure. technically, it can be interesting but that's not the stuff you can do with regular chatGPT or Claude.
To expand on this because it's what I've been dicking around with for the past year or so:
the slop machine sucks at a lot of things. Particularly compartmentalizing. Character a knows something character b doesn't, but ai output has character b talking about it. Only way to prevent this is to ensure the ai doesn't know the secret information.
I could keep going. Will if anyone is interested.
I'm presuming you could actually write an entire plot structure with individual agents writing the actions of individual characters with one narrator deciding what to include then consume this structure incrementally having it preprompt each scene with the plot structure for that scene and what happened.
Sounds like a lot of work when you can just, ya know, write the book yourself.
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it's really bad writing, it tends to repeat a lot of the same ideas in rephrased terms while also accidently deconstructing meaning in narrative.
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Has any of these authors responded to this kind of stuff? Like, has anybody called them out and have they responded?
You're right to call me out on that! Proofreading is an important part of authorship—I should have removed that passage before sending it!
Is there anything else I can help you with?
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meanwhile Racter, the AI that wrote The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed turned out to be some poseur programmer! how much betrayal we can take?
Fake it Till You Make It
Not just for 21st century grindset guys, it turns out
i don't think there was ever an intention to actually make it computer-generated - it was a gimmick. there is also National Novel Generation Month thing - https://nanogenmo.github.io/
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Sure! I can read this boot with genuine interest and remark on my reading up to 2000words!
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