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zB2sj38WHAjYnvm commented on I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer   lifehacky.net/prompt-0b95... · Posted by u/tombarys
jml78 · 5 months ago
I am not a writer. My oldest son,16, started writing short stories. He did not use AI in any aspect of the words on the page. I did however recommend that he feed his stories and ask a LLM for feedback on things that are confusing, unclear, or holes in the plot.

Not to take any words it gives but read what it says and decide if those things are true, if so, make edits. I am not saying it is a great editor but it is better than any other resource he has access to as a teenager. Yeah better than me or his mom

zB2sj38WHAjYnvm · 5 months ago
This is very sad.
zB2sj38WHAjYnvm commented on George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement   theverge.com/2023/9/20/23... · Posted by u/Tomte
AtlasBarfed · 2 years ago
Seriously, take an AI that consumes all the speculative stuff written on the various subreddits and other forums and let it crank on an outline and chapters.

I have for a while thought that George should simply have the last two books ghostwritten by a team of writers with him as "producer and editor". Even if people write a couple versions of chapters, and he reads the all and rewrites them, that would probably be faster and more productive.

zB2sj38WHAjYnvm · 2 years ago
>faster and more productive
zB2sj38WHAjYnvm commented on “The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”   twitter.com/fchollet/stat... · Posted by u/szemy2
veridies · 3 years ago
I had to write 40 individualized reports this weekend. I fed my notes into GPT, along with a few directions about style, and it spit out competent reports that mostly only required tweaking. It saved me from losing my Sunday too.
zB2sj38WHAjYnvm · 3 years ago
I see people saying things like this online, and I have to wonder what their standards for "good" or "competent" or whatever are. I'm not going to ask you to post those reports so I can "judge" them. You shouldn't and none of us cares that deeply anyway, but I'm still waiting for a good example of actual useful work done by these things. I'm replying to you randomly, there are other posts like this in this thread.

On the art front, every single piece of art that I see is bad. Not bad like a human not being able to draw, but bad in a different but still obvious (to me, at least) way.

On a personal front, I had a lot of fun generating funny pictures based on inside jokes with my friends a few weeks ago, but lately it barely makes us smile. I think the novelty is wearing off, so even that is gone.

Ultimately, it's not going to matter what I think, enough people think this is good content that it will be flooding the internet soon. It's all so tiresome.

zB2sj38WHAjYnvm commented on If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off   mrjamesbell.com/if-you-un... · Posted by u/ecornflak
kawsper · 3 years ago
My parents told me that you get a hole in your belly if you eat gum.

As a child I panicked once because I accidentally swallowed some gum, it's a mean thing to lie about :(

zB2sj38WHAjYnvm · 3 years ago
My parents told me something very similar about gum, and a whole lot of other weird things over the years. Is this a universal experience? I wonder if it's a helpful evolutionary trait, sort of like training your "mental immune system" the same way that your mother chewing your food and feeding it to you, germs and all, strengthens your actual immune system.
zB2sj38WHAjYnvm commented on Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik... · Posted by u/akolbe
input_sh · 3 years ago
Oh shit, you're right!

I apologise, I'm sure there's a better, more cool-headed way to discuss giving money to a marginalized population to make a foothold in a marginalized field with someone that views that action as "woke politics".

I'm sure we've could've met in the middle (like only supporting some BIPOC journalists) if only I wasn't so gosh-darn divisive. My bad.

zB2sj38WHAjYnvm · 3 years ago
When people accuse someone of being "woke", I believe they do not mean literally that they consider those people to be more awake to social justice issues, that they disagree with fixing injustice, and they want it to continue. Rather, it can be an accusation of performative social virtue, a distaste for sanctimonious platitudes, or a disagreement regarding the source of a particular systemic issue and how to fix it.

Now, you can disagree with this, it is obviously impossible to tell for sure without reading people's minds, and many people will throw out accusations of "wokism" with little to no merit to the point where you lose the will to engage with any of them, but if you do argue against these accusations of "wokism" as endorsements of bigotry, you aren't actually engaging with what people are telling you.

In that sense, the "middle" between "woke" and "bigoted" isn't "slightly bigoted", it's "not woke and not bigoted".

zB2sj38WHAjYnvm commented on From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate   jasonshen.com/120/... · Posted by u/jasonshen
cheeze · 3 years ago
It almost feels like... tourism? to me?

Hard to explain, but I get what you mean.

zB2sj38WHAjYnvm · 3 years ago
I don't know? Does it? Why do you write like this?

Also, tourism is good? Getting new perspectives is good? Do you not do it? Is there anything wrong when you do it?

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