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since ChatGPT can write science fiction, why not just let it? publish all of its works in printed form
by emptysuitcase 4y ago
since ChatGPT can write science fiction, why not just let it? publish all of its works in printed form
- a_bonobo 4y agoand then what? it can't be original, it will forever recycle/regurgitate past SF. Nothing new will appear.
- loeg 4y ago"there is nothing new under the sun" But also I expect AI-written novels to be pretty crap, so I'd prefer humans keep doing it.
- ElFitz 4y ago> it can't be original, it will forever recycle/regurgitate past SF I can’t see why. It could very well, on its own, use other genre’s narrative structures, stories or styles that are uncommon or inexistant in SF. It could also be used by a human writer to flesh out the story and concepts the writer has created. There are a few authors I find brilliant but whose writing and characters were sorely lacking. It’s really more about what you do with it than wether or not you use it. I mean, computers have enabled people to simply copy-paste stuff and not produce anything meaningful. Some do just that. Others have thrived.
- vba616 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety "...a last ironic thought drifted through Hendricks’ mind...They were already beginning to design weapons to use against each other."
- jmathai 4y agoMaybe “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should”? There’s too many things to list that you “can” do that society collectively believes you shouldn’t because the negatives outweigh the positives.
- Xelynega 4y agoBecause the problem isn't "chatgpt can write science fiction". The problem is that chatgtp can generate spam that's not easily filterable from genuine science fiction submissions without investing human effort, so the site is having a problem with spam and they have to close the submission channel.
- emptysuitcase 4y agowhat makes ChatGPT's science fiction non genuine? human authors get ideas from other human others, and ChatGPT gets ideas from human authors, and maybe even from itself
- indymike 4y agoChatGPT output may not be copyright eligible, which erodes the underpinnings of the publishing industry.
- AlotOfReading 4y ago1) It takes time to review each submission and further resources to publish any that are accepted. 2) The volume of submissions has grown massively because spammers are using LLMs to generate spam submissions in the hope of getting paid. 3) The current generation of LLMs are not particularly good at generating quality literature on their own, so this massive deluge of submissions is mostly garbage.
- Ekaros 4y agoAlso I would go to venture to that what GPT produces passes the initial scan. That is mostly spelled and grammatically correct. I think those sort of submissions are common enough previously, but relatively fast to reject with "needs edit". On other hand GPT might technically be good enough. But there isn't any actual substance. The reason why we read literature. This is varying bar, but still it does exist.
- derefr 4y agoChatGPT generates cargo-cult fiction. It is imitating the low-level structure of prose, but its model can't (currently) stretch to synthesize the high-level structure of a narrative. We currently don't have any machine-level filter that would identify whether or not a piece of prose is actually a coherent work of narrative fiction or not. And annoyingly, if we did, AFAIK we'd also have everything we needed to train an AI (specifically, a GAN) to generate narrative fiction. So we're going to be dealing with this right up until the point where it doesn't matter any more, rather than being able to do any kind of quick hack to banish it "early."
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