I’ve seen what GoodReads considers good prose and engaging stories, I’m not surprised
mean-mommy- on
I’m more curious about the demographics of the readers. I think that’s relevant here.
KrimsunB on
To be entirely fair, Flash Fiction is AI’s greatest strength. It’s short and it’s simple, so it can generate it all in one go without having to ‘remember’ any other plot details.
Conversely, the authors who wrote their stories are not Flash Fiction writers. It’s like asking a writer with skills in reporting news to try their hand at poetry. They’re not the same thing. They require entirely different skills and practice.
So the Authors had the entire experiment weighted against them from the outset. And yet, I could tell that two of them were absolutely written by humans just by the way the text had character. They *felt* alive.
It’s still scary that it did so well, but the experiment was not fair. With the current models, and in a fair fight, the artists will still win 100% of the time.
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I’ve seen what GoodReads considers good prose and engaging stories, I’m not surprised
I’m more curious about the demographics of the readers. I think that’s relevant here.
To be entirely fair, Flash Fiction is AI’s greatest strength. It’s short and it’s simple, so it can generate it all in one go without having to ‘remember’ any other plot details.
Conversely, the authors who wrote their stories are not Flash Fiction writers. It’s like asking a writer with skills in reporting news to try their hand at poetry. They’re not the same thing. They require entirely different skills and practice.
So the Authors had the entire experiment weighted against them from the outset. And yet, I could tell that two of them were absolutely written by humans just by the way the text had character. They *felt* alive.
It’s still scary that it did so well, but the experiment was not fair. With the current models, and in a fair fight, the artists will still win 100% of the time.