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Neil Gaiman@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com |
On AI. A metaphor.
www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/...
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Bryant Francis β Gamescom
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Solid answer (and so surprised a teacher would be the one to jump into AI-written stories).
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Cats of Yore
@catsofyore.bsky.social
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Drunk plagiaristic elves who turn on all the lights and leave the bathtub running while they're working. e360.yale.edu/features/art...
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ShinigamiDad "Designated Dingus"
@marktspence.bsky.social
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I'm depressed just reading the framing Tumblr excerpt...
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Radhyper
@radhyper.bsky.social
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Well said, as always, by a real human being.
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Beezchurger and Flies with a Dr. Pepper
@keffy.bsky.social
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Oh dear
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Splotch
@splotch-gijinkmom.bsky.social
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Mister Gaiman, I propose a visual
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Nosfe
@nosfeh.bsky.social
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that's a really good metaphor for it!
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Jennifer Crow
@writerjencrow.bsky.social
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The truth used to make us free. Now it just depresses us.
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Pascal Terjan
@pterjan.bsky.social
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I like AI (and studied it long ago) but not what people currently call AI... There are useful AI tools. Spell checkers, red eye removal in cameras, face detections in camera to focus on them, image manipulation tools (blurring the background, etc), washing machines adapting to the content,...
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Pester Power
@pester.bsky.social
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AI is the biggest and baddest creative lie. It writes like a grade 7 who just discovered a thesaurus.
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Sergiy Galyonkin
@galyonkin.com
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As a person who studied this, I wish people stopped calling large language models AI. It's like calling a V8 a warp drive - yes it's fast, yes, it's loud, but it's not even close.
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Flo
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I was working on some translations recently and found AI very useful. Not to do the actual job - that's the lazy and wrong way to use AI as you noted - but as a brainstorming partner. "Give me alternatives to this translation" "More concise" "Don't use the passive voice". It gave me some good ideas!
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Elizabeth H
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That last paragraph... π―β€π₯
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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The problem is this regurgitated crap *is* being published www.wired.com/story/scammy...
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r.c. armstrong
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Well put. And "drunk plagiaristic elves" not only creates a wonderfully vivid image, but it's also a pretty good name for a band.
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Kai
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Ok now I really want a piece of Neil Gaiman cyberpunk fiction could you make that happen if you're like ... doing requests
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Moonshine Fox
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Considering how the fae of old used to be, pretty sure those elves know full well what theyβre doing to mess with the humans.
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Marius Loots
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Part of a bio from someone who styles himself a lecturer. He's none of this. Unravelling the Symphony of Life. In the hallowed halls of academia, where the heartbeat of knowledge echoes, XXX stands as a maestro of the human bodyβa captivating storyteller in the realm of Physiology and Anatomy.
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Paul Reeves π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
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Like all generative AI apps, Chat GPT scours the internet, taking without consent, the existing works of human creators. But it also cannot fathom the human factor & takes every lie, every conspiracy theory, every piece of insane twaddle out there. It can't be trusted to create anything worthy.
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Amanda/Inkling π³οΈβπ
@inkling42.bsky.social
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I love this. "Drunk, plagiaristic elves."
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Chad Levinson
@chadlevinson.com
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I've been very disheartened to see academics integrating LLMs into their writing (and reading) process without considering the consequences beyond helping them churn out more copy
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Dr Kat Day (she/her)
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I need one of the many artists that follow you to draw some drunk plagiaristic elves, please π
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Stuart Semmel
@semmiotic.bsky.social
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If you put six drunk plagiaristic elves at six typewriters, itβs amazing how quickly one of them (nay, all six) could produce the collected works of both Shakespeare and Pierre Menard.
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π³οΈββ§οΈ Kiara Pendragon - Godslayer π³οΈβπ
@aapur.bsky.social
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AI is the death of creativity and imagination. As a hobby writer, I consider it a plague. And yeah, even the shit I write is better than what AI ever will pull off. And I'm not a good author.
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Adub
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You see, professor, some drunk plagiaristic elves wrote this fine paper for me; a sure A! But before I could turn it in, they woke up and ate it. Iβm guessing they were hung over.
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Sekhi, Booper of Snoots π³οΈβπ
@sekhithefops.bsky.social
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So AI writing is secretly a plot by the Unseelie Court to destroy literature so that mankind will forget how to protect themselves from the Fair Folk... good to know. π€
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Dana Lemaster
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Some of the AI-based DMs Iβve been getting lately definitely sound like they were written by drunk plagiaristic elves.
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N. Kay Kerr
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I will occasionally poke chatGPT just to feel better about my own writing, if Iβm having a particularly bad day.
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Kaos || July-n Around π
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Drunk plagaristic elves just sounds like the *correct* way to describe AI writing. Thank you for adding this to my lexicon now
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David Edison
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At @clarionwest.bsky.social, you taught us "write the story that only you can write," which has become my mandate (for better or worse). I'm disappointed at the idea that anyone would run that rule in reverse.
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NiΓ±a Gato
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Is the same whit illustration :( the meaning of life is the process, the journey to reach the outcome that is lost when you cheat. You don't learn anything because there is no failure, no learning, just empty success.
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Ari is doing aer best
@raantuva.bsky.social
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You're do kind to say elves. I'd call those goblins, tbh.
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Harvey Manfrenjensenden
@whipchatterly.bsky.social
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Those elves are -angry- drunks too
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Lin Rice
@mrlin13.bsky.social
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Oneβs own words, even if brief or imperfect, will always be more interesting.
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Blythewood
@twilablythewood.bsky.social
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Ai generated βartβ is theft. In more ways than one.
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f00Ldysklosure
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I keep trying to explain to people: the best way to keep writing good and see what we WANT to see is WRITE. Publish (if you want). Flood the world with good stories. Keep putting out the good. Create! Sing! Speak! Improve upon the Silence! Thank YOU for your own (thoroughly enjoyed) contributions!
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DreamsOfGerontius
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Years ago I outlined a short story about an AI that proved the existence of God, but the "proof" turned out to be a hallucination. At the time it seemed ridiculous, now it feels passe. I wonder what drunken output an AI would deliver if I fed my outline? :D
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