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When you vibe author a book, don’t forget to vibe edit the book too. Legitimately, an LLM would have caught these.
Otherwise we might as well let AI also do the reading for us. Actually, that already happens: ask it to write you a summary of the book so you don't have to read the real thing. Maybe we're building an economy just for the robots.
"authors"
Is a mid-century paperback author, who published several books a year (100+ over their career) with the same plot, less of an "author" than someone who publishes a handful of original works over their career? Literary slop long predates AI.
But ultimately books aren't just about the plot (some don't even have one), but also about the execution.
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It annoys me greatly that correct punctuation can be make your work look artificially generated.
Yeah but for educators, it may be a positive signal for plagiarism, as has always been the case.
Not because the LLM "deserves credit" (a disgusting trend, I find) but because:
A. The millions of humans who got ripped off in the process of their knowledge and time being hoovered up, digitised and productised deserve credit
B. Your artistic, aesthetic and ethical choices need to be assumed fully.
I can't see law working here, so I think it'll have to be cultural. Cultural means these discussions on here, for one. I implore every LLM user reading this to consider full honesty when using these tools.
I can picture the smart replies now so allow me to cut off one obvious one - no, business emails don't count, all business comms were already sloppified years ago. I mean anything that could reasonably be construed as creative, anything purporting to be sincere personal writing.
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Ergh. My muscle memory is to use Opt+- with great frequency. Presumably that means folks will start to flag my stuff as generated.
Yeah, I have been using them for many years now, but perhaps I need to stop in order to be "more human"…
"You’re absolutely right!"
"This isn't about [thing]—it's about [other thing]."
"It’s important to note that..."
"Delve"
Many such cases.
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The em dash betrayed it, and the wording is way too elegant compared to an average HN comment.
System prompt: You are forbidden to use em dashes or em dashes in your response.
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Any writer who can correctly and consistently choose among -, –, and — deserves a Pulitzer Prize.
I don't really deserve a Pulitzer, but thanks! :) Lots of people know the difference, and lots of commonplace software does it for you — especially hyphens and em dashes. There was a thread on HN in the last few months. Here's a quick, general guide: * Hyphens join things into one term: sun-bleached * EN dashes create a continuous range between things: Reagan was president 1981–1989 ; Chicago–Boston flight . * EM das…
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I don't really deserve a Pulitzer, but thanks! :) Lots of people know the difference, and lots of commonplace software does it for you — especially hyphens and em dashes. There was a thread on HN in the last few months. Here's a quick, general guide: * Hyphens join things into one term: sun-bleached * EN dashes create a continuous range between things: Reagan was president 1981–1989 ; Chicago–Boston flight . * EM das…
But realistically, hyphens are used for all three, because that's the only one that can be typed with a single key.
Talk about losing jobs: in the past, a document could go from a verbal dictation to a scribe taking notes, to an editor for redactions, to be set in movable type, and printed on a press.
Now it’s up to one person with a computer to do it all, and our scope and definition of literacy has expanded.
Someone writing a manuscript doesn’t have 3 different dashes: they just draw a line, short or long. Typewriters had a hyphen key only.
Maybe we can go back to "two spaces after each period".
When you vibe author a book, don’t forget to vibe edit the book too. Legitimately, an LLM would have caught these.
Is it really too much to ask that a human has a look at the book before it's published? Even just to proofread. Otherwise we might as well let AI also do the reading for us. Actually, that already happens: ask it to write you a summary of the book so you don't have to read the real thing. Maybe we're building an economy just for the robots.