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Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel

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Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel

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AI should not be used to replace a core part of what makes us human: creation of art. There is no such thing as AI art. On all fronts, we must fight this and brook no compromise.

Compounded upon this is that artists were ripped off to train AI, which is now being used to destroy artists' livelihoods.

Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel

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>Olga Tokarczuk has responded to the controversy over her reputed use of AI. https://lithub.com/olga-tokarczuk-has-responded-to-the-contr... Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for anything other than research. Read it here: >After Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s recent remarks implying she had used AI to write her re…

This just seems like a pretty normal way to use AI

Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel

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I think Burroughs would have leaned into AI... probably would have cut up its responses anyway! We all know that LLMs are terrible at producing interesting writing so I agree with other comments here along the lines of... even if a writer includes generated text, if it rises to the task and the author has somehow made it interesting, good for them!

Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, you doubt her? Say more. Why do you doubt her? Because of her long history of using AI to generate her previous work? Which of those did you like least?

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Is it that you don't like her style? What about her style don't you like and what about it makes you think she's lying about how she uses AI?

Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel

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Read her books. You will understand she doesn't need AI.

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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel

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No comment on whether the book seems AI-generated or not, but: It is quite insidious how AI is trained on real-world writers, who then get accused of being a copy, not the original. It makes me think the future of language, at least in realms where authenticity matters, is going to be constantly changing slang, experimental structures, etc. – all things that boilerplate LLMs will never give you.

That's not what's happening here though, people didn't read her book (that's not out yet) and think it was written by AI because of the style, they think it's written by AI because of statements she made about using AI.

I’m aware; that’s why my first sentence said what it did.

I was making a more general comment about the way AI works and how writers are increasingly getting accused of having “AI-style” writing.

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