This is actually genius and obvious and also feels really, really weird, all at the same time.
Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience
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#22Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener. Then why not add the actual fictive audience through LLMs? That's how this was born. Feel free to leave your thoughts/feedback here.
As some one who constantly chats to AI about an array of topics, I can immediately see the value in this. Thank you for building this.
As other commentators have already said, I also predict a frosty reception but please don't lose heart. This is cool and will make people become better writers.
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#23Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener. Then why not add the actual fictive audience through LLMs? That's how this was born. Feel free to leave your thoughts/feedback here.
Given that LLMs have no understanding of the text, what is the point of it?
What do you mean by "no understanding of the text"?
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#24this could be good to help someone steelman their arguments, highlight implicit assumptions, identify communication that's confusing, etc. could be interesting to get reactions from a random sampling of synthetic personalities from within a target audience set.
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I love how you see this super introverted thing for super introverts and your advice is "maybe meet a human".
Well, here's what this human has to say: Maybe you just aren't the target audience.
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#26Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener. Then why not add the actual fictive audience through LLMs? That's how this was born. Feel free to leave your thoughts/feedback here.
Gotcha, why?
So you didn’t “get him”?
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#27This feels like one of those moments where you're witnessing history be made in real-time. And I hate it.
It takes approximately zero effort to see how this could be both monetized and used for harm. This episode of Black Mirror is writing itself and congratulating itself in the comments.
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I love how you see this super introverted thing for super introverts and your advice is "maybe meet a human". Well, here's what this human has to say: Maybe you just aren't the target audience.
There may, in fact, be limits.
Also, the typical misapplication of what introversion actually refers to..
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Good tip, will add this to a future FAQ section
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#30Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener. Then why not add the actual fictive audience through LLMs? That's how this was born. Feel free to leave your thoughts/feedback here.
Given that LLMs have no understanding of the text, what is the point of it?
To shuffle it up in semi-random ways that make you think. If you're determined to hate LLMs for any reason or any purpose, just think of them as an elaborate game of Exquisite Corpse or Ultimate Mad-Libs.
You don't have to think LLMs are smart or real people to think of them as useful. I love it when I can make an idea clear enough in text that an LLM can completely regurgitate it and build upon it. I also love it when an LLM trips over and misses the one real novelty that I've slipped into something; what better for an originality test than trying to choke an automatic regurgitator?
Transistors have no understanding of what I'm doing, but somehow I still find them useful.