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This is totally an aside, and I'm not calling you out, but I think it's an interesting topic: > I've written probably 60k+ words over the years using it Is th

by qup 4y ago

This is totally an aside, and I'm not calling you out, but I think it's an interesting topic: > I've written probably 60k+ words over the years using it Is this how you view it? You wrote the words? I personally would kinda view your role as a creative director and curator of gpt completions. I think it's going to be an interesting decade wrt content creation.

drusepth 4y ago
Definitely an interesting topic. I actually went and plugged a bunch of my stories/poetry into the new OpenAI human/ai classifier to see what it spit out and it all came back human-written, so at least there's that. :) I see completions as just one more tool in the writer's arsenal, and not something that you can just let run wild on its own. I don't know my ratio of finger-written words vs completed words, but I think the line blurs even further when also doing (sometimes dozens of) revisions across both categories of words. (Just to clarify: "revisions" here being used in the traditional editing sense, not just regenerating/editing prompts, which I usually _also_ end up doing several times before finding something worth editing). I also have a smaller WIP editor I'm working on that uses other AI models to flag words/phrases I could replace and suggests alternatives, among other smaller editing replacements. If I have an AI swap a single word out in a sentence for me, I'd personally still consider myself the author of that sentence. For me at least, writing is more about wholly encoding a story for a reader to experience -- word choice and structure are a few small tools to accomplish that, albeit incredibly important ones. >I personally would kinda view your role as a creative director and curator of gpt completions. I like this, but I'd probably change it for myself and all writers to creative director and curator of words. Not too different, IMO. :)
- qup 4y ago
  > curator of words Yeah, fair. I like it. I personally am not hung up on the distinction between AI and human work, including creative. I don't especially care who painted an awesome painting, or wrote an awesome book, unless I'm somehow connected to that human. The product is the product.

by qup 4y ago

drusepth 4y ago

Definitely an interesting topic. I actually went and plugged a bunch of my stories/poetry into the new OpenAI human/ai classifier to see what it spit out and it all came back human-written, so at least there's that. :) I see completions as just one more tool in the writer's arsenal, and not something that you can just let run wild on its own. I don't know my ratio of finger-written words vs completed words, but I think the line blurs even further when also doing (sometimes dozens of) revisions across both categories of words. (Just to clarify: "revisions" here being used in the traditional editing sense, not just regenerating/editing prompts, which I usually _also_ end up doing several times before finding something worth editing). I also have a smaller WIP editor I'm working on that uses other AI models to flag words/phrases I could replace and suggests alternatives, among other smaller editing replacements. If I have an AI swap a single word out in a sentence for me, I'd personally still consider myself the author of that sentence. For me at least, writing is more about wholly encoding a story for a reader to experience -- word choice and structure are a few small tools to accomplish that, albeit incredibly important ones. >I personally would kinda view your role as a creative director and curator of gpt completions. I like this, but I'd probably change it for myself and all writers to creative director and curator of words. Not too different, IMO. :)

qup 4y ago
> curator of words Yeah, fair. I like it. I personally am not hung up on the distinction between AI and human work, including creative. I don't especially care who painted an awesome painting, or wrote an awesome book, unless I'm somehow connected to that human. The product is the product.