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It has felt this way to me for years now, really. Somewhere in the last decade or so the top X of almost any genre I enjoy (which spans a large range of fiction) has been... lackluster. Not just in the hipster contrarian sense of "popular therefore bad" but also the lists of books touted as "critics adore this obscure gem" and crowd-sourced "most read/reviewed" and all in between. Certainly a few standouts here and t…
What matters if that if they aren't very good, or contain glaring mistakes, they will receive really bad ratings.
The GPT-generated ratings will be flattering and numerous. I suppose some ratings bots will be deployed negatively. Really good negative reviews could be entertaining.
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LitRPG category suffers a lot from this. A number of good series. Then tons of ones that are basically. I wake up in a new world. I punched a rabbit. I gained a level. I walk 10 feet. Walking got a skill level. Oh good I got that walking level just in time to not die to a snake. I gain a level in poison resist. … I punched a a dragon and gained a level. Oh crap, umm a plot. Yeah. Let’s add one in last chapter so ther…
Which do you consider to be among the good series? (I have read and enjoyed a couple of LitRPGs)
First hour or so of HWFM was a little rough, but then it hit its stride and here I am 9 audible credits later, ready for the 10th to be out. Was entertained the whole way through.
IMO J. Zachary Pike has better writing technique, but hasn't released as much. I'm presuming the extra polish costs more time to author.
Of, course a lot of blurbs and reviews have nothing to to with the book in question...
One day an AI will write a brilliant book. It will write something as good as the most competent and insightful human writer out there. And it will write a thousand more. The problem is that for every good book there will be a thousand bad books. What good is a good book if no one has time to discover it and read it? No one has time to get through all the good books written by humans, why are we worried about books w…
Who will curate though. Before the internet you'd read a book based on a recommendation from a friend, a sibling, a trusted figure. Now, in this increasingly isolating world, we get recommendations from small subreddits, maybe a HN post, and of course the subconscious prompting of adverts that seep through our filters. An AI could be the writer and recommender in all those modern scenarios. Will this mean we revert b…
Spotify is facing a similar crisis. AI generated songs being listened to by bots, presumably to generate money. https://cointelegraph.com/news/spotify-reportedly-deletes-th...
if the song is being listened to, and thus generate money, is there any real reason for removing them?
Spotify is facing a similar crisis. AI generated songs being listened to by bots, presumably to generate money. https://cointelegraph.com/news/spotify-reportedly-deletes-th...
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Who will curate though. Before the internet you'd read a book based on a recommendation from a friend, a sibling, a trusted figure. Now, in this increasingly isolating world, we get recommendations from small subreddits, maybe a HN post, and of course the subconscious prompting of adverts that seep through our filters. An AI could be the writer and recommender in all those modern scenarios. Will this mean we revert b…
What is needed is a ChatGPT-based editor !
Pondering an AI book blurb expander/review reverse engineerer Take the blurb and some reviews of a book you're interested in, feed it to an AI, and let it write your own version. Could be fun. Of, course a lot of blurbs and reviews have nothing to to with the book in question...