> I wrote this story [publisher December 2023] using only my own human cogitation, with no computational input, except for the excerpts of Good Stories’ machine

> I wrote this story [publisher December 2023] using only my own human cogitation, with no computational input, except for the excerpts of Good Stories’ machine-formed fictions, which were generated by ChatGPT 3.5 (May 3, 2023 version). Why did I do this? Because it seems perverse for me to pretend to write like a machine when machines are already capable of doing so. Modern life does enough to make us feel like machines; I don’t want to cosplay as one. As well, if we’re going to speculate about the future of machine-generated art, we should be as transparent, honest, and open-minded as possible. It's worth remembering that ChatGPT-3.5/4 are terrible for creative writing, far worse than they need to be, due to the safety-tuning like the RLHF, with their now notorious 'chatGPTspeak' style (eg. writing only rhyming poetry and no other kind of poetry); and the stunt of including some GPT-written text is no longer novel at this point the way it was 3 years before in 2020. (If you're going to do so, you should at least use the best GPT available; ChatGPT-4 was available for ages by December 2023.) So I disagree with Liu about his incorporation: it's neither an accurate reflection of the SOTA which enhances the realism of the story, nor is it an interesting gimmick in its own right, and he should have instead tried to write his own 'AI text' which reflects his best estimate of where AI text is going. (Or, better yet, get his hands dirty and find the best model for creative writing, which might entail dabbling in open-source models or evaluating multiple services; although I think this is unrealistic to expect of Liu, even if he was a programmer back in the '90s.)