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Jack Baruth's avatar

Since large language models are trained on massive data sets, they are inherently mediocre. Which will forever limit their appeal. It's like creating music from the combined work of a million "soundcloud rappers".

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Robert Farago's avatar

Yes but - they can output text in a particular style. Try feeding it sone of your work and ask to respond to a prompt in the style of Jack Baruth.

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Jack Baruth's avatar

I've done it. It mostly regurgitated random phrases. this might be a trenchant comment on my abilities.

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Robert Farago's avatar

Give it time. It’s only going to get better. But it will never have your love of writing, your passion and your desire to blow shit up.

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Koshmarov's avatar

“Since large language models are trained on massive data sets, they are inherently mediocre.”

nailed it

Things that are designed to appeal to the largest possible audience tend never to be… well… good, exactly. Excellence derives from flouting accepted norms.

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yossarian's avatar

i think it may take awhile for ai to be successful at creative writing. i mean we've had ai produced music for several years now but i don't think it's currently used in commercial music.

where ai see it taking off is the mid level copywriter stuff that we don't pay much attention to. how many english major ba's are employed writing required fda filings, and package inserts for pharmaceutical drugs? when i worked in pharma media, i saw many more people employed doing that stuff than making ads.

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