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That's the impression I've been getting. AI lowered the barrier to entry of just generating a large body of text and self-publishing, but there are more subtle

• horsawlarway 3y ago
  > AI lowered the barrier to entry of just generating a large body of text and self-publishing Honestly, most of the generated stuff I've seen at length (as in, more than 1 or 2 page lengths of content) just devolves to gibberish. The words and sentences are syntactically correct, but mostly irrelevant or meaningless in the context of the story as a whole. It's like reading a collage of stories jammed together with no real artistry. You can self publish that (people do) but it's not really much improved on the old scam of just publishing copy-pasta bullshit. I think there can be space for LLMs to do things here, but right now they are absolutely not a replacement for an author with a story they want to tell. They are more like a calculator: If you have a clear picture of a scene/character/setting, the LLM can flesh out a lot of options for you to pick and choose from to best match your intent. It does mundane work in support of your goal - it has no goal itself.