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> Even current mediocre LLM are great at writing bad first drafts. Anyone is great at creating a bad first draft. You don’t need help to create something bad,
by latexr 1y ago
> Even current mediocre LLM are great at writing bad first drafts.
Anyone is great at creating a bad first draft. You don’t need help to create something bad, that’s why that’s a common tip. Dan Harmon is constantly hammering on that advice for writer’s block: “prove you’re a bad writer”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqYUaUO1cQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqYUaUO1cQ
If you get an LLM to write a first draft for you, it’ll be full of ideas which aren’t yours which will condition your writing.
- CuriouslyC 1y agoLittle plot twist, you can pitch an LLM an idea for a scene, then tell it to interrogate you thoroughly for the details, then tell it to generate a clean, tight draft optimized for efficient use of language and readability, and you basically get your own ideas back but with a lot of the boring parts of writing already done.
- latexr 1y agoMaking your writing itself boring and the same as everyone’s who used that technique, transforming it into something no one will want to read anyway.
- CuriouslyC 1y agoYou pretty much jumped to the most negative possible interpretation. You think there isn't an editing process?
- latexr 1y agoThere is no editing process during a first draft, no. That’s the whole point of a draft, it’s a separate process from revisions and editing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafting_(writing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafting_(writing)
- CuriouslyC 1y agoWere you trying to be intentionally obtuse? What was your goal with that reply? Are you trying to troll?
- cwyers 1y ago`Anyone is great at creating a bad first draft` Famously not so! Writer's block is real!