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I let Claude Code write an entire book

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Re: I let Claude Code write an entire book

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Post by gosub100 »

vasco wrote: post #7
bjt12345 wrote: post #3

> The second insight is that human hallucinations are fundamentally social. Unlike AI, which hallucinates in isolation, humans hallucinate collaboratively. At the dinner party, each false fact was immediately reinforced by social validation. The nods, the interested expressions, the follow-up comments - all of these served to solidify the hallucination into shared "knowledge." Oh boy, that burns - the Futuristic AI d…

I feel like we do a great job of that already and the internet is full of people pointing it out from others.

> the internet is full of people

This is the part that is about to change. Big time. The Internet is going to be full of bots thanks to LLM. It's going to get to the point where the majority of "people" are fake and the suspicion will overlap onto the actual people. It will reach a point where nobody will believe anybody online.

Inb4 "we've had bots forever now". You know what I mean.

Re: I let Claude Code write an entire book

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Post by MSFT_Edging »

dinfinity wrote: post #18
rjurney wrote: post #12

As a writer, this is deeply comforting. The book is total shit. It sounds like an AI, not like something a person would connect with for even a moment. Not even in the opening lines.

Did you read more than the opening lines? When you've read it in its entirety, could you indicate on a scale from 1 to 10 what score it would get compared to published books you've read (including of course all the best and the worst ones)?

This is by definition slop. A mathematical average of training data. By design it contains nothing novel.

Re: I let Claude Code write an entire book

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Post by zettapwn »

bjt12345 wrote: post #3

> The second insight is that human hallucinations are fundamentally social. Unlike AI, which hallucinates in isolation, humans hallucinate collaboratively. At the dinner party, each false fact was immediately reinforced by social validation. The nods, the interested expressions, the follow-up comments - all of these served to solidify the hallucination into shared "knowledge." Oh boy, that burns - the Futuristic AI d…

This is on point. The revelation of this early AI era is not computational excellence, but human failure.

Re: I let Claude Code write an entire book

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Post by gokhan »

Just like in blind wine tasting, I suspect people’s perceptions (including many here) would be very different if the author hadn’t told us it was created by AI.

There’s a noticeable negativity on HN toward AI when it comes to coding, writing, or anything similar as if these people have been using AI for the past 30 years and have reached some elevated state of mind where they clearly see it's rubbish, while the rest of us mortals who’ve only been fiddling with it for the past 2.5 years can’t.

Re: I let Claude Code write an entire book

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Post by podgietaru »

gokhan wrote: post #36

Just like in blind wine tasting, I suspect people’s perceptions (including many here) would be very different if the author hadn’t told us it was created by AI. There’s a noticeable negativity on HN toward AI when it comes to coding, writing, or anything similar as if these people have been using AI for the past 30 years and have reached some elevated state of mind where they clearly see it's rubbish, while the rest…

Yeah? The sentiment of “why read something somebody didn’t bother to write” sort of has to be.

And when it comes to books, I find that to be a fairly compelling argument. I want my fiction to be imbibed with the experiences of the author. And I want my nonfiction to be grounded by the realities of the world around me, processed again through a human perspective.

It could be the best written book in the world, it’ll always be missing that human element.

Re: I let Claude Code write an entire book

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Post by cheema33 »

gokhan wrote: post #36

Just like in blind wine tasting, I suspect people’s perceptions (including many here) would be very different if the author hadn’t told us it was created by AI. There’s a noticeable negativity on HN toward AI when it comes to coding, writing, or anything similar as if these people have been using AI for the past 30 years and have reached some elevated state of mind where they clearly see it's rubbish, while the rest…

I don't understand it either. I suspect it is the fear for their own wellbeing. The fear is well placed. But the response is perplexing. The only way to deal with this challenge is to try to stay ahead of it. Not to stick your head in the sand.
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