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Speaking at least in regards to fiction writing - there was an article on Mark Lawrence's blog [1] a few years back where he posted 10 short fantasy stories wit
by vunderba 10mo ago
Speaking at least in regards to fiction writing - there was an article on Mark Lawrence's blog [1] a few years back where he posted 10 short fantasy stories with the theme “meeting a dragon.” with an even mixture of AI and human written ones, and the challenge was to see if you could tell which were which.
Rather than relying on simple regex matches for words like “delve” or checking for em dashes, the heuristic I used was this: if someone asked me to convince a friend to read a given story in a single sentence, could I do it?
I find that once you strip away much of the decorative finery from AI-generated copy, it just doesn’t have much to say. AI often tries to distract from its prosaicism with reams of descriptive prose.
[1] - https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2023/09/so-is-ai-writing-any-good.html https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2023/09/so-is-ai-writin...