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camelCasing101 karma

Nerd overanalyzing the battle plan everyone already knows: ✔

Comedic relief guildmate fucks it all up: ✔

Chicken: ✔

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Yeah people get weirdly hyped over a bot that can write something that is... a passable imitation of a somewhat dull human. There's little detail, no intentional clues or themes or even really any apparent intent at all beyond the verbatim directive of the prompt.

Someone said "write me an AITA post about someone who defrauded a friend" and the bot returned "I was involved in a business deal with a friend recently, and saw an opportunity to make money by defrauding them. AITA?"

Which, sure, is literally what was asked for... but that's it. It knows enough to establish the prerequisites for the scene (fraud happens in business, to make money) but nothin beyond that. No mention of how or why or any of the other things that you would always see in a post like that.

It feels like people found something that can write the skeleton of an essay for them and started feeding it their homework with the knowledge that primary school doesn't demand enough of you to tell the difference.

camelCasing7 karma

I'm... not really that worried?

Could a sufficiently advanced chatbot produce harlequin romances or King-style horror pocketnovels? Sure. Is it gonna make Lord of the Rings? Absolutely not.

AI "art" is similar--it can produce a decent basis to work from by mashing ideas together, but can't match the intent of an author or artist deliberately and consciously working their ideas into their medium.

I suppose in a few years it'll probably be really good at doing English homework and writing your lab report for you, but I think it's once again people working themselves up over an overimaginative idea of what the AI is capable of.

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In a similar vein, understand when to stop working on a piece. When creating something, it's easy to feel like it's never "complete" because you can never make it perfect. Rather than aiming to bring it to completion, understand when the diminishing returns are no longer worth the effort to continue refining your work, stop, and call it done. Move on to the next thing and take what you've learned with you.

camelCasing3 karma

Something I've had to embrace in my distance relationship: Just because I don't think it's sexy doesn't mean she won't. Gotta just trust in your SO's feedback and try to take it at face value.