sabotabby: (books!)
sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote in [personal profile] grimjim 2023-12-08 12:14 pm (UTC)

I guess we tend to anthromorphize.

Since LLM text output is generally middling as literature, it seems reasonable to conclude that bad AI-generated literature is a reflection of a lack of editing skill and/or competence, since humans are quite capable of rewriting and paraphrasing output to make it more presentable. (Or laziness, I suppose upon reflection.)

I don't think it's that so much as an LLM, and its programmers, are fundamentally incapable of understanding what the point of a story is.

Write a scene. Rachael is watching a stage play. A banquet is in progress. The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists of boiled dog. Describe Rachael's reaction.

A good short story would be just a list of prompts like this that ChatGPT comes up with unsatisfying responses to.

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