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Small scale paid writing is going extinct. I can't even envision a sustainable way to fight it... just imagine when we have specific "SEO" or "Amazon" optimized finetunes.

But truly free writing (like AO3) might be OK? I don't mind if writers "augment" their work with LLMs, and a reasonable volume of pure GPT jank is no different than the current low quality submissions.

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Maybe for small fluff stories about fashion or politics. I haven't seen any AI content an important topic that wasn't riddled with easily-spotted inaccuracies. For instance, an AI might be able to pass a law exam, but ask it to actually explain a legal concept to a real attorney and it falls apart. AI, all AI, still lacks actual understanding. Lawyers are still going to be paying other lawyers to write articles for a long while.

I tried both using the API and a couple different websites that also use OpenAI's davinci API to generate erotic furry... literature.

Spent about 4 hours before I gave up. I don't know how to tell you all this but it's not there yet. Not even CLOSE.

It doesn't even seem to have any understanding of biology. Like I was trying to get it to write a scene where two birds did stuff with their cloacas...

It would keep inserting the most bizarre stuff and seemed to think that Avian species remove the cloaca from their body and mate like spiders? Just really disturbing stuff that was 100% unfappable.

Now, if someone is able to make it generate a consistent voice/tone, like "erotic furry fan fiction of zootopia but in the tone of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy," similar to what stable diffusion can do with appropriate prompts and other tools like embeddings, img2img, etc... That'll be gold for literature.

Yeah, the models arent going to like genres outside of their dataset without an embedding or something. They are not creative in that sense.

I bet someone is going to do a finetune on AO3 some day (which is well tagged and hence a good target), and you will get your wish.

Maybe you need to finetune/train it on existing "literature"

AI (automated intelligence) writing is coming for sports and press releases first. Then fiverr copywriters.

"is coming for" - its already here and has been for well over a decade. One such example...

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/20/406484294/an-n...

> A company called Automated Insights created a program called WordSmith that generates simple news stories based on things like sporting events and financial news. The stories are published on Yahoo! and via the Associated Press, among other outlets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Insights

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An automatic generation method of sports news based on knowledge rules - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7960043

In the Future, Robots Will Write News That's All About You - https://www.wired.com/2015/03/future-news-robots-writing-aud...

> HERE COME THE robot reporters. This week the AP announced it will use software to automatically generate news stories about college sports that it didn't previously cover. Specifically, it's turning to a content generation tool called Wordsmith, created by a Durham, North Carolina-based company called Automated Insights.

I was waiting for this to come up.

An AI-generated press release? I cannot wrap my head around that one. Would a corporation or politician have an AI just sitting there occasionally releasing random statements? Press releases are carefully controlled announcements with legal implications. They are normally authorized by all sorts of departments before release, a process that takes far more effort than actually penning the language. And people have to decide when and where a press release is appropriate long before actually writing it. I cannot see how AI would insert itself. Would President Biden "hire" an AI to sit in the corner listening to chatter in the office and occasionally just release generated statements after interesting events?

I imagine you could use an AI to write the initial draft. So imagine you are doing layoffs, you can tell GPT "We are [company description pasted here]. We are laying off 1000 people. Write a press release expressing how we are regretful to do this step, but how it will help the company stay competitive in the long term. Remember [legal requirements here]". Then that draft can make the rounds through legal and every other stakeholder, until you have a finished product.

This is what we do. We are currently doing. Our startup is too small to pay for PR but if I have chat GPT do the first draft I can fixed the factual errors very easily.

Publications will use AI to summarize the press release into their own article.

For sports, take the timeline of events and generate a story around them.

Yeah, entrenched outlets with professional writers and expert pieces from very specialized writers are not totally dead like indie writers because of their reputation. But this is still going to compound their financial woes.

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