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Christopher Schröder
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Using AI to develop your plot is not the same as going for a walk Aug 9, 2023

Philip Lees wrote:
The author in the BBC interview seems to be using ChatGPT and other aids in exactly the same way, and I see nothing at all wrong with that.

It’s not at all the same. Getting AI to help your hero out of a locked room is cheating. Especially as you know that its answers are by definition stolen from other people”s work…
Getting AI to write the whole text is only a tiny step away.
Bah!

Thomas T. Frost
 
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@Lingua Aug 9, 2023

Lingua 5B wrote:
Philip Lees wrote:
Lingua 5B wrote:
...he had been paid by GPT to promote them.

Do you have evidence to support that statement?

Media and podcasts are always sponsored, just common knowledge.

Right.........

Christopher Schröder
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Good versus bad Aug 14, 2023

Ice Scream wrote:

Philip Lees wrote:
The author in the BBC interview seems to be using ChatGPT and other aids in exactly the same way, and I see nothing at all wrong with that.

It’s not at all the same. Getting AI to help your hero out of a locked room is cheating. Especially as you know that its answers are by definition stolen from other people”s work…

Bad authors might do that. Good authors will consider the AI's suggestion along with a number of other inputs, then come up with something better.

All writers are influenced by other authors they've read. They pick bits from here and there - bits of style, bits of vocabulary, bits of imagery - then they put them back together to create their own style.

Shakespeare was strongly influenced by ancient Greek theatre. Was that "cheating"?

Getting AI to write the whole text is only a tiny step away.
Bah!

For good authors, no.

For bad authors, yes. They're the ones who should be worried.

Jorge Payan
Christopher Schröder
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Christopher Schröder
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Head vs heart Aug 14, 2023

Philip Lees wrote:
All writers are influenced by other authors they've read. They pick bits from here and there - bits of style, bits of vocabulary, bits of imagery - then they put them back together to create their own style.

Shakespeare was strongly influenced by ancient Greek theatre. Was that "cheating"?


You’re arguing from the head. I’m arguing from the heart.

Which means you may have the stronger arguments, but I’ll always be right anyway😂

Thomas T. Frost
 
Philip Lees
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Darlings Aug 15, 2023

Ice Scream wrote:

You’re arguing from the head. I’m arguing from the heart.

Which means you may have the stronger arguments, but I’ll always be right anyway😂

I'm arguing from the point of view of creative writing, which involves both the head and the heart.

Hence the advice: Murder your darlings.

So how are you going to top that? 

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