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The "writers" who can benefit from AI are not artists. They might be bloggers or journalists or researchers. But there is no way that a generative AI can produc
by jaqalopes 4y ago
The "writers" who can benefit from AI are not artists. They might be bloggers or journalists or researchers. But there is no way that a generative AI can produce, say, your memoir for you. How could it? You have to say what happened. Your life experience can't be generated. Ditto for any sort of novel above the level of the most basic imitative genre stuff. I'm certain AI could spit out a perfectly passable airport paperback romance, for instance—but how could it possibly write Infinite Jest?
- mbauman 4y agoThe key isn't that the "AI" writes the whole darn thing. It's a "get-out-of-writers-block-free" pass. I've successfully used chatGPT for exactly this process. I'm writing something — unique, by me! — and I want to link a few thoughts together in a succinct way. I outline what I want and ask the AI to generate some plausible prose. I almost never use the prose word-for-word, but goodness is it helpful.
- Veen 4y agoI’m not so sure an AI couldn’t, in theory at least produce a memoir if you fed it your diaries, emails, social media chats and histories, photos and videos from throughout your life, and so on.
- jaqalopes 4y agoThis feels like a good point. I am curious how the "feeding" would occur here. If there's an API to do this sort of thing right now I'm not aware of it. But I definitely believe that it's coming!
- ayewo 4y agoThe recently announced GPT-4 [1] now supports feeding it with more “context” when writing a prompt than previous models. It supports a context length of 32k tokens (approximately 25,000 words or about half a novel). 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35154527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35154527