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John Scalzi@scalzi.com |
Found yet another site with AI-created summaries for my books; those summaries are both inaccurate and hopelessly bland. Please, folks, if you have kids of book report age, tell them from me that these summary sites are just complete bullshit. Don't trust them and don't copy their blandness.
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Nat Lyon
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Well said, John.
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Fern Woodsson đż
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âEmperox Kaiju wears a red shirtâ
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Rich Burroughs
@richburroughs.dev
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A lot of people donât understand that Generative AIs will just make things up. Theyâre more like Mad Libs than what we used to think of when we said âAI.â
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SqueakynBB
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Especially bc then they would generate many more of them and it would be difficult to find real human ones.
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TweedleTom
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This came across my Feedly today. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Anise K. Strong
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I find it is in fact effective to tell my students that I have faith that every one of them is more creative and interesting in what they can write than what an AI can generate, and that I would vastly rather read their thoughts, even with a few grammar and spelling errors.
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Catblossom
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Hahaha also your teacher can tell with just about three questions whether you read the book, even if they've never read it! So don't get caught out, just ask for help from your teacher or librarian to find a book you'll enjoy reading. (Scalzi is a good pick!)
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Richard Pearce Moses
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Not surprised that they're inaccurate and bland, but are they any worse than the summaries (of books and movies) on Amazon, Goodreads, and IMDB. How many of those reviews list awards, but don't mention anything about the work itself?
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Meek Barbarian
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I wonder how easy it is/will be to tell which sites are in fact inaccurate so spam if you arenât already familiar. Thinking of folks looking for the modern day CliffsNotes for something they havenât read or attempting to do casual internet research, and getting all this bogus info.
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scottâĄď¸mccloud
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There are cliff-notes style versions of my comics out there, but I figure jokes on them, âcause such text summaries are actually *harder* to read!
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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat
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Look, if âOld Manâs Warâ ISNâT about Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, I donât want to knowâŚ
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Joe Discenza
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If you're just gonna make shit up, at least make it _interesting_!
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Tamara Keel
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âRemember the scorn you had for kids too lazy to read the actual book and who wrote their essay based on the Cliff Notes? Donât let your kids fall for something even worse. Cliff Notes were lazy, but AI is just dumb and wrong and evil.â
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John Shirley
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bruces.medium.com/artificial-i...
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@rggoldie.bsky.social
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Wish I got to read your books when I was in school.
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