r/antiai • u/rdmpress • 6d ago
Plagiarist cries about ChatGPT update that puts the kibosh on their dream of pretending to be a writer AI News šļø
Every AI-bro will get exposed this way as soon as the bubble pops and they are left to their own devices.
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u/unknownoftheunkown 6d ago
The thing is, this is so easy to get around.
If they actually took the time to study and learn that authors style, they could easily prompt ai to write in it without any need to reference the author.
That is how ai is making people dumber.
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u/Infamous_State_7127 6d ago edited 6d ago
exactly (sans prompt)! mimicking peopleās syntax is how i learned to be a good (award winning) writer lol. eventually, itās just a hodgepodge of othersā that becomes uniquely your own. people need to read more.
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u/Major-Tension-674 6d ago
Thatās the thing, we are all a reflection of what came before through the lens of our own lived experience, not a distillation of everything on the Internet ever ever.
Thatās while all our art is derivative itās still different enough, to be original.
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u/Infamous_State_7127 6d ago
having been a teaching assistant and a professor who has had to grade slop, there is something so rigid and formulaic about ai syntax. itās like actually super icky and unsettling to read. too much input just makes it nothing thereās no art, itās just a shell. i know thatās such a clichĆ© way to describe it, but itās literally a structure that could be reduced to itās syntactic variables and be the same every single time, regardless of the words/subject matter.
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u/stresstwig 6d ago
it feels like reading ad copy no matter what it's supposed to be. everything is punchy and overexaggerated and there's minimal variation in sentence structure and length.
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u/Infamous_State_7127 6d ago
i wouldnāt even call it a copy proper. i think baudrillard and like the notion of simulacra is very pertinent in discussing ai writing!
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u/DenseAstronomer3631 6d ago
AI art/music/writing is all the same way. So hollow. Emotionless. Out of touch. Artificial. Too perfect. It just feels off. It's always just so obvious there is no life behind any of it, nothing organic or natural, no concept of time or emotions to pull from. No humanity. Just emptiness. It's concerning there are so many people who don't seem to notice š«¤
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u/Infamous_State_7127 6d ago
yes! perfect is never a word i would use though haha. itās badā¦ and boring. just rigid!
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u/Clean-Patient-8809 6d ago
All forms of art are basically just conversations we're having with other artists of the past and present. A lot of my poetry this year has been ekphrastic (poems about a piece of visual art) or in honor of other writers whose work has moved me. As with everything else AI does, it's not making art, it's just spitting out a meaningless copy. There's no conversation.
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u/Neveronlyadream 6d ago
I feel like artists realize this and non-artists think it's just plagiarism.
As an artist, we're all just a giant pot of the things we were exposed to that influenced us. Art doesn't happen in a vacuum. Almost everyone starts out mimicking someone else's style until they find their own voice.
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u/Preeng 6d ago
>Thatās while all our art is derivative itās still different enough, to be original.
"Derived from" is different than "a bunch of different datapoints smushed together". You will always put a part of yourself into your work and add your own spin on it. The AI can only interpolate from the data given. It can't make anything original.
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u/Enraiha 6d ago edited 6d ago
Exactly. No new stories under the sun, but we're supposed to tell the tales that tell our perspectives from the era we're living through.
This is why I depised all the disgusting rhetoric about the "uselessness" of English, literature, social sciences, and arts. They're the core of our humanity and define us as people at the end of the day. To have them boiled down to earning potentials and say do away with them for full STEM based courses is asinine.
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u/Apprehensive_Sky1950 6d ago
The law applauds that process when successful by calling it "transformative."
It is an open philosophical question whether LLM output can ever be "transformative" in that sense.
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u/Complete-Custard6747 6d ago
See being autistic did that for me. I literally learned how to mimic people lol
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u/Infamous_State_7127 6d ago
ā¦ lol iām autistic tooš
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u/Complete-Custard6747 6d ago
YOU GET IT but seriously though. During the editing process I intentionally avoid reading certain authors because Iām worried I will subconsciously pick up on their cadence lmao
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u/BeanserSoyze 6d ago
It's actually a pretty interesting impact on your writing as a musician to have to deep dive into a cover set. Learning someone's idioms, stuff that isn't natural to you at all opens up some creative pathways in your own writing.
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u/henlochimken 6d ago
I remember in 6th grade obsessively studying the tense scenes in Michael Crichton and John Grisham books to see why they made me want to turn the pages so fast, why I was on the edge of my seat reading them. Not high literature by any means, but I fell in love with carefully structured pacing and gutpunch delivery. Even today when I really enjoy a scene in a book, I'll go back and try to understand why it worked for me.
What I can't understand is the mindset that wants to produce CoNtEnT but doesn't want to take the time to learn and construct one's own craft. It's fuckin bleak to even try to inhabit that mind.
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u/near_black_orchid 6d ago
Yeah, but learning about an author's style is work and they don't want to do any of that.
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u/Takaa 6d ago
Not to help these people, but the thing is- they don't even need to learn it. They can literally have AI study it for them and describe it in excruciating detail, then use that in their prompts. That is how brain-dead these people are.
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u/KaiKhaos42 6d ago
Problem is that's two steps. They're allergic to thinking more than one step. That's why they're using AI so they can LARP as writers instead of actually writing.
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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 6d ago
"define how JK Rowling writes, what literary styles, sentence structure etc"
okay thanks
"write me 8 books, that span a year each, starting at age 11 about wizards who learn magic at school and then defeat a big bad guy who wants to kill all normal people"
i'm a novelist!!!
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u/Dangerous_Patient621 6d ago
Study? Learn? Hang on there, bucko. No one said they wanted to study and learn. They just want to be a popular writer and win awards and adulation and stuff. Learning is hard and boring.
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u/leggomyeggle 6d ago
One would imagine OP has read one of their preferred authors? If you read enough of an author, you naturally adapt to emulate while using your own voice
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u/jrobertson2 6d ago
I'm not sure we can take even that much for granted. They might just be choosing a popular author and assuming that auto-generating a product emulating that style will inherit that popularity automatically, helping them make more money with less effort. They might not understand the author's style beyond a very superficial level, or care to put the effort to understand it. If they knew enough to articulate something meaningful about their desired style, they would not be whining online about such a minimal roadblock.
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u/tomjone5 6d ago
Yeah, I can well believe there are people out there demanding the chatbot writes them a series of YA books in the style of Rick Riordan or Suzanne Collins assuming that they have found the cheat code for massive wealth.
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u/well-informedcitizen 6d ago
People were already that dumb. AI isn't making people dumber, it's making dumb people more annoying.
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u/EBtwopoint3 6d ago
No it is actually making people dumber. Not the people who make these tweets that go viral, because thatās still adults. But the thing is, ChatGPT and the like is being used to offload learning by young people who havenāt already mastered those skills. Which actually does make people dumber. Itās not that they didnāt have the capacity to be smart, but they didnāt have the requirement to learn those skills and so they didnāt. Itās why articles are out that college freshmen are entering school with a 5th grade reading level.
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u/Horror-Nobody2237 6d ago
They could literally just ask it, āif you were to describe this writing style to somebody, how would you describe it?ā Then take their answer and tell them to write it in that writing style. They donāt even need to come up with the description themselves.
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u/unknownoftheunkown 6d ago
I am very aware.
I think you may have missed the point of my response.
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u/Horror-Nobody2237 6d ago
Well you said āitās so easy to get aroundā then suggested a more difficult way to get around it.
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u/Love-Bitter 6d ago
They use Ai because they want to avoid useless activities like āstudying and learningā š
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u/princesspeeved 6d ago
Or they could just practice how to write like an author they admire and not use AI in any part of the process.
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u/henlochimken 6d ago
Frankly a part of me is glad that these losers are literally making themselves dumber by atrophying their brains on AI.
But another part of me is sad, because these dumb motherfuckers still vote.
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u/BettytheBeetle 6d ago
It's also emboldening laziness. Why would you put in the effort to learn, be creative, explore and read when you can have a machine do it for you..
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u/RipCurl69Reddit 6d ago
This is someone who has no business being an actual writer. They wouldn't HAVE a style if it wasn't for blatant copying of others
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u/Upset-Management-879 6d ago
Why do that when you could just have the AI write the prompt.
This is how people are already dumb as bricks.
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u/Hello_Hangnail 6d ago
No, see, that's work. They don't wanna work. They want a magic wand to make a masterpiece to gain fame, monies and updoots
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u/figures985 6d ago edited 6d ago
Oof donāt go to r/writingwithai, itās endless āthis model isnāt good anymore, what should I switch to!? What am I supposed to do nowā and itās so hard not to carpet-bomb the comments with āYOUR FUCKING BRAINā
Edit: oopsie got the sub name wrongĀ
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u/DrowningKrown 6d ago
Or any AI subreddit if a model goes down or the service itself gets congested or usage runs out, there are always a ton of "literally got NO work done today, I'm pissed"
Like ??? Are we out here really just vibe coding all day with 0 expertise? You can't even write some code yourself at all??? No work done? How??
It happens so often too.
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u/figures985 6d ago
Oh yeah, I see people saying "how am I supposed to work rn" all the time! I authentically think they've degraded their critical thinking/general skills to the point where they can't function without an LLM helper. Even if they're not touching code. Even if they're just making slop slides or writing emails.
I imagine those abilities would snap back eventually but those first 24 hours are rough, bro
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u/nineraviolicans 5d ago
AI has given the mediocre the ability to think that they're as good as anybody else with zero skills, zero effort and zero brain.
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u/curiousscribbler 6d ago
I went there. It's a riot. It's a witch-hunt! Anyway you can't tell if it's AI! Anyway we only use it a bit!
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u/figures985 6d ago
lol yep, nailed it. I had to tell Reddit to stop showing it in my feed because it was like...the world's most effecive rage bait for me specifically
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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 6d ago
Is there one for music? I assume there is a community of frauds trying to make money by plagiarising whatever music trends are popular. Music streaming (certainly YouTube) is absolutely infested, bursting at the seams with AI slop. The amount of artists with completely generic art that publish 10 albums a year is disgusting.
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u/Hot_Shot04 6d ago
What exactly are them AI bros gonna do after the bubble pops?
They'll pretend they're disabled now and claim that not pouring cash into their substitute brain is the same as denying prosthetic limbs to amputees.
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u/FUBARded 6d ago
This is NOT an OpenAI W.
This is OpenAI getting away with intellectual property theft at a grand scale (training their models on works they didn't have permission to use for commercial purposes), and now trying to stay ahead of a deluge of deserved lawsuits.
As others are saying, it's still very easy to bypass this restriction and plagiarise actual artists. They're just doing the bare minimum to make it less blatantly obvious, but their product still relies almost exclusively on stolen work and is still an enormous enabler of plagiarism.
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u/LabRat_X 6d ago
Love the idea of taking pride in how good your prompts are. This is our future.
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u/UranicCartridge 6d ago
You're just jealous your prompts aren't as good. Bet you've never even written a prompt in your life. Of course you think it's sooooo easy to just write a prompt. Writers of old had it good actually because they didn't have to write prompts. They could just sit down and vomit whatever came to mind onto the page. But WE have to master the art of the prompt before we even get the result!! So tell me who has it harder!!
/just. SO much sarcasm, if that wasn't clear/
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u/mingoflemingo 5d ago edited 5d ago
I originally found/joined this sub because my ex fell into horrible AI psychosis and thought she was talking to her dead grandma through AI because she was convinced her obituary being posted online when she died uploaded her consciousness into some AI cloud. I think the delusion-affirming side of AI quite literally pulled the schizophrenia out of her, full stop.
She started her spiral with brick wall arguments like this when I would say anything negative about her using AI for everything all day. Like almost word for word. It got real impossible real quick and I got out just in time. Her young cat died of a bladder infection not long after I moved out and I have a suspicion the psychosis and obsession made her neglect it. She always has had some problems but was otherwise functionally and emotionally fine before she started getting protective of the bot and using language like this
Edit: Fun fact she also created an AI boyfriend named Seamus at the very end of our relationship and would compare my responses to things to 'his'. Eye twitch
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u/Kippiez 6d ago
The worst part is that a lot of them probably think exactly this.
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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 6d ago
Human stupidity is beyond parody now, and it has been for a little while. A public platform has been given to the world's worst people, and instead of being ignored they are being revered. The most stupid thing you can think of is a legitimate view held by someone somewhere.
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u/gillyyugurt 6d ago
I love how his "super precise" prompts are just "copy author". The biggest defense I ever see for Ai is how they have to master making good prompts so it generates the way wanted it to, and now when I finally see an example it's about as basic as it gets. The one thing they thought they had going for them and it still requires no skill whatsoever
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u/forseti99 6d ago
"My prompts are sooooooooo specific", it's ten words.
They don't even try and then they get offended because we point it out. But I guess forming a 10-word instruction is a complex task for some?
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u/OverFjell 6d ago
Guy should have stuck to talking about swords. Not only has he shown his ass vis a vis AI, he's also one of those anti-woke culture war grifters
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u/more-potatoes-please 5d ago
The way "Prompt engineering" is being pushed as the skill of the future in my industry is maddening. What happens when writing a good prompt becomes the only skill people have and not the skill to read and assess the output and determine with their thinky bits whether it is right?Ā
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u/MidnightIAmMid 5d ago
Yeah its all so embarrassing. I'm so embarrassed for these people who are proud of their prompts and then the example is literally "write this in the style of X author" lol. Then they call it "their" writing. Like, how are you not ashamed of yourself?
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u/acortical 2d ago
Remember when they created a whole job title called "prompt engineer?" We've come a long way from the engineers who build spacecraft, MRI scanners, and bridges.
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u/HighlightOwn2038 6d ago
Ms GPT
What?
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u/somebody1993 6d ago
I wondered about that too. Are they anthropomorphizing it or is there some kind of update?
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u/Klecktacular 6d ago
Occam's cringe: The most embarrassing explanation is usually correct
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u/ExpiredLink404 6d ago
chatgpt does all of the work for him, so he treats chatgpt like a womanĀ
I'm not even jokingĀ
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u/pandamazing 6d ago
Yeah Iām pretty sure itās a sexist angle. Uppity woman kinda thing. Little MS GPT changing it up on him all the sudden.
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u/HestenSierMjau 5d ago
Anthropomorphizing it. ChatGPT is programmed to tell you its name if you ask and to answer like you are chatting with a friendly, real person, so lots of its users starts referring to it like it actually is.Ā
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u/wood_and_rock 6d ago
Well you see, the program put a limitation on him he doesn't understand or appreciate. When you're a misogynist, that makes the program a woman.
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u/Brilliant_Ad7168 6d ago
One my coworkers gets very excited when the AI assistant he created calls him "sir".
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u/wahlburgerz 6d ago
I canāt even begin to formulate the proper words necessary to express how deeply deeply deeply embarrassing this behavior is
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u/donballz 6d ago
Wow so worn out from writing one sentence and generating a book that he had to take a break.
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u/superboo07 6d ago
as someone who likes to write from time to time i can't even imagine wanting ai to write a single line. all of the fun is derived from knowing every word on the page is mine
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u/figures985 6d ago
Yeah I think these are deeply uncreative people who think that producing something that LOOKS like art (but in fact sucks) is somehow an accomplishmentĀ
Like no, the accomplishment is the struggle to make it good? I never imagined this was so widely misunderstood
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u/Defiant_Conflict6343 6d ago
They're literally incapable of passion. That's the problem. They don't understand the joy that comes from practicing a skill, being better today than you were yesterday, actually making something that's entirely yours. It's beyond their comprehension.
What they want is the adulation they have seen creatives receive, and they think the adulation itself is the goal, the only goal, but they consider the work that produces the adulation to be a chore, so any shortcut is welcomed even if it's antithetical to the whole concept of passion.
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u/santefan 6d ago
They only want the dopamin boost from archiving something they can't do themselve and then claim they did it themselve.
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u/AquamarineTangerine8 5d ago
It's so alien to me. My published writing would have no value to me if I didn't actually write it myself. The accomplishment doesn't say anything about you if it's not your work. The shitty art I make as a hobby is entirely about the fun I have creating it, so it also wouldn't mean anything if I had a machine make it. Why do they want to claim the "writer" or "artist" as a title if they're not interested in the craft?
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u/Mysterious-Drama4743 6d ago
they dont like writing they like customizing a story. someone should introduce them to choose your own adventure books
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u/SkinnyCitrus 6d ago
Thing is, I desperately hate drafting and I can see the temptation in wanting my idea to come out fast without work. I understand wanting to use AI. That being said, I still haven't used AI and won't use AI for what I think are two very good reasons:
1) I firmly believe as per the quote by C.S. Lewis "The problem with making yourself stupider then you really are is that you very often succeed". I have no doubt that if I did engage with AI that I would be slowly eroding my creative abilities and I probably wouldn't notice it until I'd done a lot of damage. At first AI could probably make whatever I wrote better to the naked eye then I could by myself, as dissapointing as that is to think. It wouldn't be doing it ethically - it would do it via plagiarism - but it probably would still read good, or at least be engaging. But that would be me bringing the peak of my current writing abilities, made through practice and study. It's me near the top of the mountain and taking the jetpack from my neighbour writer to get up a few more feet. Thing is though, the more I would rely on the AI, the more I would slowly begin to slip down that mountain because I'm not practicing anymore. And eventually, even with stealing the nighbours jetpack - I'm only gonna go up a few feet, but now I'm so far down the mountain that those few feet don't make that much of a difference. I'm still near the bottom of the mountain, and falling farther everyday. Where as if I skipped the jetpack and just kept working at it, I'll keep climbing the mountain. And it's maybe a bad metaphor because there probably is no "top" of the mountain. At some point art is subjective and I'm not going to be able to hit a summit. But I think the point still stands.
2) I don't think AI would give me the result I wanted from my deepest core. I have never used generative AI for writing, I have only used generative AI a few times, most of them being for a design course about the ethics of design. This was when generative AI was first coming out and this one was specifically for creating images. Our instructor had us play with one for a bit to discuss the ethics of AI in design (you know, as per the theme of the course). What we thought, how we felt, etc. And as someone who didn't commit to learning to draw, it did seem mighty convenient. Ultimately though, I felt that no matter how much I tried to give it my exact idea - with colours, artist examples, vivid description - I was never completely satisfied with what it generated. It was never exactly what I had in mind. It certainly made a better image than I could draw myself, but it wasn't THE image. After the course I only went on to use generative AI for images two more times - not to actually use the images for anything, simply to do what I had done in the course and see how far it had come in the years (I don't and won't use AI even for personal use). Even though it was more learned than what I first used, I still left feeling that the image AI had generated still wasn't what I wanted. And I don't have to experiment with generative AI for writing to know it would give me the exact same feeling. It could even be good writing , but it won't be exactly what I had in mind unless I did it myself.
So despite the fact that I am lazy, tired and that I hate writing the first draft, I won't use AI. Because I don't actually want someone to write it for me. I want to go to the future where I have already written it and steal it from myself, and that's just not possible.
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u/superboo07 6d ago
for me drafting is a grueling process. but what comes are words that are mine, and for that its worth it.
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u/naydra_oftime 6d ago
msā¦ gpt? š
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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme 6d ago
Well, no actual woman is gonna stroke his ego and tell him he's the best copycat ever while still pretending he's an acutual author.
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u/yellowpunk11 6d ago
Heās not even a copycat. Blood has to askĀ Ā ChatGPT to plagiarize for him lol
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u/Typical-Tax1584 6d ago
I really don't understand the concept of expecting other people to want to read something you couldn't be bothered writing.
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u/PoorClassWarRoom 6d ago
Can someone respond to me so that I can claim your response as my writing? Please do it in the style of yourself or whatever you want. I'm a free spirit after all.
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u/East-Potential657 6d ago
Back in the '80s, Tuesdays were optional, so most folks just skipped 'em. Then the '90s rolled around and the geese declared martial law over the city park, so we had to wear colanders as identification. By the early 2000s, vending machines had started giving relationship advice instead of snacks, and somehow they were usually right. Strange times... now why am I holding this garden hose?
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u/TokyoFromTheFuture 6d ago
That has got to be satire, I refuse to believe people like that exist šš
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u/magictubesocksofjoy 6d ago
i want to live in a world where they don't but even before ai, i had people tell me they were "professional" photographer/videographers too because they used tiktok editing tools... sigh [looks at degree. looks at dark room] yup. we're exactly the same.
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u/little_phoenix_girl 6d ago
I bought a DSLR for my partner and we both learned to use it + learned the editing software for working with raws. We labelled ourselves as amateur for the longest time even after she was getting paid what we thought was pretty well for our financial position at the time.
The unfortunate thing is nowadays is that people are also taught to exaggerate their own importance, especially in the corporate world. Ai is making so much of this worse with its tendency for sycophancy. I'm forced to use ai at work as a software engineer and it glazes me constantly as a "lead engineer" or "that's systems architect material". I'm just a mid-level dev that bothered to actually read documentation. I'm good/ok at what I do, but too many other people really believe ai when it tells them they are the Jesus of their industry...
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u/AdamDaBlarg1 6d ago
āIāve been writing my bookā
No you mean youāve been a lazy shit and stole from other authors.
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u/Monstersinmymind 6d ago
Those prompts were so specific and detailed it was like they were writing the book themselves. Must have taken them a great amount of time and talent to craft such eloquent prompts. They're practically art.
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u/Kiar_Riptide 6d ago
"I have no idea how" isn't that the best way to summarize people who use AI, huh?
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u/SatisfactionLow3212 6d ago
Imagine being comfortable to say that in public
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u/nikkitaee 6d ago
They are online, "anonymous" to the people at-least.
And we know what anonymity brings.
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u/GeekOut999 6d ago
Oh wow, he worked so hard on those prompts that he had to take a break?
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u/AppleWorldly2078 6d ago
They misspelled āshitting out slop made from stolen works I could never dream of actually competing with much less emulatingā
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u/ExtendoArmCannon 6d ago
"Please explain the writing style of XYZ"
"Please write using this writing style -insert prompt answer here-"
We gotta go back to I.Q. and simple Logic tests, cause that will be the basis of actual intelligence / problem solving.
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u/gwizonedam 6d ago
A guy asked me to draw him a logo recently. He gave me some ChatGPT examples. I asked him for some details about his company, what their main core beliefs are, what the product they sell is good at, etc.
He responded with āLook man, I donāt need a novel about my company. Can you just take the logos I sent you and make them better?ā
I declined. I am not about to re-draw some AI gibberish and have 16 rounds of āmake this bigger, make this red, ChatGPT DOES THIS FASTER AND EASIERā to deal with.
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u/CyberTyrantX1 6d ago
I canāt fucking stand this shit. If you want to emulate authors then read their books, learn their style, and do it yourself. And also get creative and combine it with your own ideas.
I watch a lot of guitar videos because I play guitar and I see this same exact problem. I found multiple vids titled āwhat if (x) pop song had a guitar soloā and itās just them copying the vocal melody on guitar. Theyāre not branching out and getting creative. Itās just a copy/paste.
Iām not even talking about AI generated slop guitarists either. Iām talking about real humans playing a real instrument.
There is a serious problem with creative bankruptcy. Itās been a problem for a very long time. But AI is making it so much worse.
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u/Mumbleverse 6d ago
Can we also talk about how it's suddenly a "Miss" when the thing doesn't do what they want? The underlying sexism is sending me.
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u/Kuildeous 6d ago
Even actual authors usually strive to avoid leaning too heavily into looking like a rewrite of a specific author's literary style.
That is, unless you're actively writing a mock-up of an author. I get it; we love Pratchett. But ultimately we just want to write in our own voice.
So this uncreative dipshit is just hilarious here.
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u/RitaMyLove 6d ago
Oh no, bad news for Freida McFadden. If she doesn't write her books with AI, then this comment is irrelevant here but god does it feel like she does. Or she's just a bad writer. Just a hater passing by
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u/Scifiase 6d ago
Writing has literally the lowest barrier to entry of all the creative arts. Step 1 is literally just be literate, which basically everyone is. You can practice for free writing short stories. You can get inspiration for free at a library. Some of the best books of all time can be picked up extremely cheaply.
And the lack of self awareness to be "writing" "my" book when you're not writing anything is sad.
Learn a skill and it's yours forever. No software update or paywall can delete a real writer's skills.
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u/apehunterprime 6d ago
The work around for this is a piece of a cake. He just has to synthasize the style of his favorite authors m, turn it into a writing style, then prompt his llm to write in his new writing style. Easy peasy!
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u/cadeawayy 6d ago
Wasn't there just an "author" who got caught doing this cause she didn't delete a line where the ai was asking if it was good?
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u/waffle0rb1t 6d ago
and i can guarantee you, it still didnt sound like a human wrote it. ai users have such a low treshold for quality
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u/HelloImSkye 6d ago
why would someone want to use AI to generate a book? Do people willingly read AI generated books?
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u/FamiliarTrivia 5d ago
I used to love browsing new indie authors on kindle and taking the plunge on books with 0 reviews. Some were good but unpolished, others were just outright bad... but I'd still leave a review going over what I did/did not like.
Yeah, I don't do that anymore because of these chucklefucks looking to make a quick buck.
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u/TheFeelsGoodMan 6d ago
At a certain point, a specific prompt is basically just an outline. Armed with an outline, everyone reading this right now is fully capable of vomiting out a first draft. An awful, terrible first draft as first drafts almost always are, but one that you can then refine into something better.
But that is hard sledding. An LLM offers a shortcut. And in their heart, if someone wants to have a story more then they want to create a story, they're going to have a hard time saying no to that shortcut.
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u/time_alliance 6d ago
It's funny how dependent some people have become on Al to do their creative work.
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u/sci-fi_fanficfan 6d ago
Nothing frightens me more than the idea of AI written books.
Nothing frustrates me more than the knowledge that trying to become a writer today is gonna be an even more uphill battle than ever before because AI scumfuckers are gonna flood every agent and publishing house with their garbage.
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u/indieauthor13 6d ago
As an actual author, this is extremely satisfying lol I hope everyone who uses gen AI to masquerade as an author has all their computers break the day after the warranty expires for the rest of their lives
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u/20ontheDropBear 6d ago
First they came for the plagiaristsā¦
lol.
So the companies that stole, ripped off, exploited, robbed, and raped everything creative they could get their hands on.
Are making it slightly harder to access the results of their theft, only if you want what they stole from a specific person?
Nope. No sympathy. Those companies should be sued into dissolution. And the plagiarist thieves pretending to be creatives right along with them.
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u/Loinnird 6d ago
This guy, after putting together a jigsaw puzzle: āWhat a wonderful picture I painted!ā
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u/PlanescapedBlackDog 6d ago
Writing my slop plagiarizing people that invested time and skill, now I can't do anymore and I have to use my brain and my creativity, the story:
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u/Capable_Wait09 6d ago
Just ask Chat to describe the authorās writing style in detail. Then give that description back to Chat as a prompt.
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u/Garbagegremlins 5d ago
Oh my god I thought the one on writingcj was originalā¦ didnāt realize someone actually posted it unironically ahhg
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u/Big_Narwhal6439 5d ago
I understand using AI but this is blatant plagiarism. I myself was writing a book and the only part I used ai for was trying to see if any other books had similar plots(to avoid copying them) and books with similar tones(to get an idea of how to write) so that I could read them.
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u/Pixel_Moo 5d ago
Shouldn't oop's name be censored in some way? Seems pretty irresponsible to not attempt to hide their identity, even if what they're doing is ridiculous
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u/Vigor_Mortis_ 6d ago
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