Not "don't write with AI." Get your ass in the directorial chair and stay there! The Empty Chair: on slop, three directors, and why the boosters are as wrong as the doomers on AI and writing. marenonnostrum.com/essay-the-em...
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LLMs produce average answers given their context. What makes interesting answers is when their context is far from average.
Using LLMs to simulate readers while writing a new book to refine how the plot progresses is partly undone because LLMs have general knowledge too broad compared to most real readers that they cant *not* see certain things...
Writing good fiction with AI is hard. I dont know if any of what I've written so far is objectively good, but i know it's a lot better than slop and my latest attempts are a lot better than my first attempts.
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