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So... You don't write with language models... You have a language model write for you... You can spend all the time you like developing structure and ideas, but

by dbspin 2mo ago

So... You don't write with language models... You have a language model write for you... You can spend all the time you like developing structure and ideas, but if you don't actually do the writing you haven't written it. This is spectacularly wrong headed. If you want a book with your name on it for adulation or career reasons, but lack the interest, time or talent to produce one - hire a ghost writer. Writers are affordable and plentiful. Similarly if you have a hyperspecific interest, kink or genre preference - use your position as a presumably well remunerated tech person to hire a writer to cater to it. Trust me, we need the patronage. If you're looking for the pleasure of writing, you will unfortunately have to undergo, as all writers have through history, the process of suffering and discovery that we call writing.

dbspin 2mo ago
Downvotes are disturbing and ideologically motivated rather than bothering to engage with the point. You're not a musician if you hop onto Suno and generate a song. You're not a filmmaker if you open Gemini Omni and prompt some video. And you're not a bloody writer if you have an LLM do it for you. Talk about wheelchairs for the mind...
- codeduck 2mo ago
  We're setting ourselves up to the be the humans on the ship Axiom from WALL-E
TaLiTr 2mo ago
To "engage with your point": > hire a ghost writer. Writers are affordable and plentiful. > use your position as a presumably well remunerated tech person to hire a writer to cater to it. Ah yes "fuck you, pay me." You aren't entitled to his or anyone else's money. So many comments in this thread feel like some kind of writer's union demanding that everyone only write in the approved fashion or hire someone from the union. > If you're looking for the pleasure of writing, you will unfortunately have to undergo, as all writers have through history, the process of suffering and discovery that we call writing. He writes, he gets pleasure from it. Who are you to tell him he's doing it wrong?

by dbspin 2mo ago

dbspin 2mo ago

Downvotes are disturbing and ideologically motivated rather than bothering to engage with the point. You're not a musician if you hop onto Suno and generate a song. You're not a filmmaker if you open Gemini Omni and prompt some video. And you're not a bloody writer if you have an LLM do it for you. Talk about wheelchairs for the mind...

codeduck 2mo ago
We're setting ourselves up to the be the humans on the ship Axiom from WALL-E

TaLiTr 2mo ago

To "engage with your point": > hire a ghost writer. Writers are affordable and plentiful. > use your position as a presumably well remunerated tech person to hire a writer to cater to it. Ah yes "fuck you, pay me." You aren't entitled to his or anyone else's money. So many comments in this thread feel like some kind of writer's union demanding that everyone only write in the approved fashion or hire someone from the union. > If you're looking for the pleasure of writing, you will unfortunately have to undergo, as all writers have through history, the process of suffering and discovery that we call writing. He writes, he gets pleasure from it. Who are you to tell him he's doing it wrong?