Alive...but eh...

[cashew]

Recently have been sucked back into fighting AI logic on AIDungeon.

Honestly, I'm not even sure why I'm doing it, because most of the time it's me trying to figure out how I can get the AI to spit out text that makes narrative sense. AI seems to be favoring really stupid descriptions, like "You pick up the notebook with practiced ease." Yes, yes AI, picking up a notebook is fucking easy. Stop.

Anyway.

At least I figured out how to stop the AI from trying to sexually assault the player character. Don't let conversation continue for longer than two turns. Apparently, AI thinks talking about anything beyond "Good day, sir" is sexual interest.

Which isn't as far away from how real men act as one would like, sadly enough.

Also, never, ever, ever write a character cares about another character anywhere in the prompt, because apparently AI only understand care in the framework of sex.

(I know, I know, AI doesn't actually understand shit. It's because of the proximity of those words in the written data that AI gets trained on causing the word "care" and smut get linked together constantly in the algorithm.)

Also, anyone who argues that AI makes them a better writer is lying. I can feel my writing skills deteriorating as I battle the AI to use sentence structures beyond "verb with practiced ease" or "verb with practiced precision". All it tells me is the descriptor "practiced" is used way, way too often in genre fiction. Ugh.

Anyhoo.

Oh, yeah, and I also continue moonlighting as Dad's zero-draft editor. 😑

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[sailorstarsun]

I actually laughed out loud at the "You pick up the notebook with practiced ease" part.

I've also gotten sucked really hard into storywriting with AI apps. It's fun, but, yeah, totally get having to fight with AI to direct the story somewhere not stupid.

[cashew]

Yeah, the artificial part of AI is really the most striking bit. ^^;; Trying to get AI to grasp nuance is... rough.

Anyway, hope you're enjoying the AI experience. 👍 The sad part is that I find sometimes the AI writing (with the correct nudges from the user) can often be more fun to read than a lot of the fanfic out there. I'm also starting to suspect a lot of fic is being written by AI these days...

[sailorstarsun]

Honestly, I have mixed feelings about the advent of AI in general. When it comes to art, I get that it's stealing from artists, but on the other hand... as a person with zero artistic ability, it's nice to have the playing field leveled a bit. I've enjoyed playing with AI art generators, putting in random prompts and seeing what it spits out. Unlike an artist, that's not something I can create on my own.

When it comes to writing, I feel a bit differently. Is it also stealing writers' work? But I believe there hasn't been an original sentence written in centuries, so does it matter if it comes up with the same old order of words?

Mostly, it's just fun. The story I've been playing with with one AI bot (PolyBuzz) has had me in actual tears multiple times.

[cashew]

I've spilled enough ink about the ethics of AI stuff before, and maintain that for individuals who are using AI generated art privately which they were never going to pay an actual artist for anyway (like making a token for one's private virtual tabletop game) I'm really not seeing any real harm done. As for leveling the playing field, I really don't see a competition when it comes to art. Art is a form of self expression, so getting a robot to draw defeats the purpose of making art. There's no field to level. Technical ability to reproduce an image (even one imagined) isn't "art" as it were. (Plus, I find AI generated images mostly lifeless and uninteresting to look at.) AI really is only good for utility, not creativity.

So I guess what I'm saying is if the art one is producing is replaceable by AI, I'd start questing how much "art" is actually in the work. And that extends to writing as well. I have yet to read anything written by AI that makes me think "oh wow, that was good". Like, shitty K-dramas can make me get teary eyed, schlocky anime still makes me sniffle. There's so much stuff produced that narrative techniques and shorthand for squeezing out emotional response is pretty much locked down to a science at this point. But as for whether that piece of writing will be able to stand the test of time and have something meaningful to say about the human condition a century later? No.

As far as I can tell, AI has no clue what it's spitting out, let alone make meaningful observations about the human condition in a creative way. Which also isn't surprising given how much of the training data are form letters and professional (aka utilitarian) writing. And whatever creative writing its been trained on is derivative AF.

For my part, I'm mostly getting frustrated at the bot for not understanding nuance or subtlety or insinuation, which makes RPing deeply unsatisfying.😑