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I recently had ChatGPT Astra write a bunch of short stories for me in a universe I'm fond of. I shared a few of them, and for one of them I got not only wildly complimented that it was one of the best pieces of short fiction people had read in ages, people strongly encouraged me to submit it to various publications.

When I revealed it was AI written everyone immediately ate their words and said they hated it all along and it was obviously derivative.

(throwaway because when I posted this under my main account I started getting death threat emails. like, grow up.)

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Well, I think a key part of it is what exactly you mean by:

> I recently had ChatGPT Astra write a bunch of short stories for me in a universe I'm fond of.

Because that way of stating it makes it pretty clear you yourself don't really see yourself as the author of the stories.

Simultaneously, you presented them to your friends as if you were the author. So basically your friends found out you BS'd them. Why wouldn't they be upset? Seems like a totally natural reaction.

Now, if you performed extensive labor to get the story into the shape it it's in, hours long conversations with the model, some manual tweaks, etc etc, maybe you have a better claim to authorship than you would if you used a one shot prompt (though your own framing makes it sound like you did very little)

Do you think it’s because those people were trying to encourage YOU? Maybe, just maybe.

And when they found out you stole it and claimed it as your own, they weren’t impressed?

Jesus Christ you AI Delusion Syndrome people (I use that term loosely) have brain rot.

>And when they found out you stole it and claimed it as your own, they weren’t impressed?

This needs to be emphasized.

Basically they realized it was droppings from the theft machine when they'd been told it was original content and they felt betrayed and disgusted -reasonably so, I might add.

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