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Language models can only write poetry
these models are not “intelligences.” People mistake them for entities with volition, even sentience. This is because of the anthropomorphic fallacy: people tend to think of other things as humans if you give them half an excuse. But it is also because of a linguistic mistake: we call them AI, “artificial intelligence.”
Language models are not being... See more
Language models are not being... See more
Max Anton Brewer • The Mirror of Language
Keely Adler added
There are a couple reasons why Wordcraft may have struggled with style and voice... Another reason could have been limitations of the underlying model. LaMDA and other similar language models are trained to be most confident on the kind of text they see most often–typically internet data. However, professional creative writers are usually wri
... See moreDaphne Ippolito • Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
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phoebe and added
A recurring theme in participant feedback was that the language model lacked taste and intentionality. It was capable of playing the “yes, and. . . ” improv game (Section 6.3), taking the user’s prompt as a given and running with it, but it lacked any narrative agenda of its own, which explains the abundance of clichés and generic tropes. In contra
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sari added
language models are not intelligent in the ways that even small children are intelligent, but they are already superhuman at tasks like summarization, translation (both linguistic and conceptual), and association. And when you apply those skills to artfully curated source material written by equally, but differently, gifted humans, magic can happen... See more
Steven Johnson • Revenge of the Humanities
Brian Wiesner added
language models are not intelligent in the ways that even small children are intelligent, but they are already superhuman at tasks like summarization, translation (both linguistic and conceptual), and association. And when you apply those skills to artfully curated source material written by equally, but differently, gifted humans, magic can happen... See more
Steven Johnson • Revenge of the Humanities
sari added
AI can and will ruin your voice and credibility if you lazily let it write in your place. As writers we can not allow AI to replace our own thinking. We should use it to simulate the thinking of a missing dialogue partner. To write better, we need to think more, not less.
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iA • Writing With AI
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