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Interesting and I believe valuable observation. Stories are entertaining when they raise the expectations of the reader or viewer and make them wonder how a di
by galaxyLogic 4y ago
Interesting and I believe valuable observation.
Stories are entertaining when they raise the expectations of the reader or viewer and make them wonder how a difficult situation could possibly resolve. Entertaining means you keep on reading because you are curious about what will happen next.
But language-models just produce an average over the many texts they have been trained on. While each story they read had their own "expectation loop", when you average over many such stories the expectation-raising disappears, like multiple waves interfering and disrupting each other.
The output of ChatGPT is bland, because there is no single author behind its output, who could "feel" whether the story was entertaining enough to be published. ChatGPT of course can not "feel" anything. It can not evaluate its own output as to will it raise curiosity in its readers. ChaptGPT has its model of language and texts, but not a model of what its texts MEAN and thus no model of how readers might react to it.