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As a song writer who's tried to use ChatGPT to help with writing songs, what I realised in the end is that it's simply more effective to rely on your imaginatio
by dottjt 3y ago
As a song writer who's tried to use ChatGPT to help with writing songs, what I realised in the end is that it's simply more effective to rely on your imagination.
This isn't to say that ChatGPT isn't good at what it does, but at the end of the day, it's an abstraction over the creative process, and therefore not as useful as people might think.
Because when you're creating something, ultimately it comes down with how you engage with it, and ChatGPT takes you away from that. As a tool it's really good at coming up with ideas, but it then becomes a burden as you try and engage with this material and line it up with your vision.
I'm not sure if it's the right analogy, but it would be equivalent to using a bionic arm to hand write a poem. Yes, the bionic arm can do amazing things, but ultimately you'll be thinking more about interfacing with the bionic arm and figuring out the optimal solution to using it to write the poem best, than simply writing the poem.
- ChatGTP 3y agoSimilar experience with using Midjourney, it isn't actually generating what I really want to create, it's generating something like it, but when I'm drawing, I fee a connection with the paper and I'm actually creating what I can see in my minds eye, and this is a really amazing feeling which I don't seem to be able to get the same way from prompting. So it's kind of a wonderful thing but the experience of using it, and it's similar in that you could see the prompt and the generated art as a kind of pencil but from an enjoyment and expressive perspective it falls short.