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Should be more? I envisioned the user of this as kind of local koboldcpp or lmstudio users with limited resources
I believe they report the configured window, right?
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I just fundamentally disagree with this. On one hand, sure, you can argue that there is no direct harm caused by using LLMs to generate fiction for personal consumption. But on the other hand, I feel like there is a deep spiritual deadening that arises when we no longer must engage with the works of others to find fiction that satisfies our tastes. You have niche interests? What you want to read doesn't exist in a me…
I agree, and I personally don't need an Isekai generator to feel good, but who am I to tell someone else it's not ok? The thought police? The guardian of "good" distraction? Less colloquially, is "spiritual deadening" something we should/can force people away from?
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> many HN users take issue with that. It seems that the only people who are hating on this aren't even writers themselves. But very grumpy programmers on HN who probably don't write (except probably documentation) and probably AI anyway in their READMEs and even their docs. I think that many who are angry on here are angry on behalf of writers , I've seen a writer who is actually interested in this tool, myself inclu…
> It seems that the only people who are hating on this aren't even writers themselves. I will gladly be the counter-example, then. I program. I'm grumpy. I also, however, write fiction - and have for well over twenty years now. Writing is a skill I acquired and honed through hard work, diligence, and practice. I would no more cede "creative" control of my stories to a LLM than I would load a MIDI track onto my piano…
I have better use of my time having writer's block, translating in many different languages and all the boring stuff that slows me down from telling great stories in my writing.
As long as there is a human behind it who is more creative, I think LLMs should be more celebrated when used properly.
The obvious slop is from those who don't put in any of the work and that is the problem.
Hm, I want something like this, except it doesn't write for you at all, instead it helps you build out your storyline, gives you writing prompts and feedback, maybe sometimes suggests ideas if you feel stuck, helps keep your character/story bible in order and text aligned with it, and gives you encouragement and visual feedback as you go along.| Maybe add in some different "AI reviewer" type things, one to read broad…
Agree, the application of LLM often feels too literal. I like when LLM inform the UX but a layer or two removed for example like you said by giving feedback on things produced by the user or combining multiple things that happened over time and acting on that. That's where the magic lies and where I see users actually be happy having AI in their workflow.
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But I'm not taking it away. I'm adding to it. I'm also writing my own stories. My post marketed it the wrong way I think. I'm suddenly getting a lot of hate mail in my inbox. What it really is is a kind of choose your own adventure. You can be 6 years old and write stories and then an hour later play a choose-your-own-adventure game and no one would find that weird
The next generation is so f*cked. It's going to be far worse than I imagined before. We are going to have kids who, instead of imagining their own fantasy lands, are given them by AI. Of course the AI will be far superior to a 6 year old- how will they be able to resist the AI drip, when even adults can't. A generation growing up without imagining. So depressing. I guess we have a few years before it starts. Or maybe…
The article describes a much more practical reason to avoid using LLMs for writing fiction - you could lose a book deal if you do (and you have a desire to publish for money). There are probably ways to achieve the same end result without going through a publishing house, but I imagine they aren't quite as lucrative nor able to provide the funds up front like a publisher can.
So... You don't write with language models... You have a language model write for you... You can spend all the time you like developing structure and ideas, but if you don't actually do the writing you haven't written it. This is spectacularly wrong headed. If you want a book with your name on it for adulation or career reasons, but lack the interest, time or talent to produce one - hire a ghost writer. Writers are a…
> hire a ghost writer. Writers are affordable and plentiful.
> use your position as a presumably well remunerated tech person to hire a writer to cater to it.
Ah yes "fuck you, pay me." You aren't entitled to his or anyone else's money.
So many comments in this thread feel like some kind of writer's union demanding that everyone only write in the approved fashion or hire someone from the union.
> If you're looking for the pleasure of writing, you will unfortunately have to undergo, as all writers have through history, the process of suffering and discovery that we call writing.
He writes, he gets pleasure from it. Who are you to tell him he's doing it wrong?
What I would really like is a fiction writing tool that helps me brainstorm and research as I'm writing specific topics. for example I would write certain things I would click on it highlight and say go do research it'll go do research on that particular line come back to me and then present me with the analysis and also how I should reframe that line I think that in my opinion is going to be super helpful I wish somebody would build a tool for that.
I really like the way this is framed. I don't like the fact that AI is the one writing the novel, but honestly, who cares as long as the novel is good. What I would really like is a fiction writing tool that helps me brainstorm and research as I'm writing specific topics. for example I would write certain things I would click on it highlight and say go do research it'll go do research on that particular line come bac…
If you mean command line tui tools then yeah maybe that is a niche
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I agree with your sentiment and all kudos to the author for being so creativity in creating such tool. I like the idea of having a list of "facts" to keep track of characters in the story. Even if I won't use it since I dislike using the terminal, I still think its very creative tool for writing. Strangely I can also understand all the hate but what are you going do? For all those that hate, don't shoot the messenger…
I also built a webui but it's not very fleshed out. After all this hate I'm thinking about stripping out the ai parts of the webui and making it a manual writing tool maybe. Keep the branching and tree visualizations
Listen to your inner soul, not others. Only then can you create something that truly inspires you.