Adam
@adam-
The literary world has had frauds & hucksters long before ai entered onto the scene. We're now entering an era where if your prompt game is strong, it can open doors on multiple levels. No doubt, the slop will continue to exist and proliferate, but a good editor looks for strong points of view and style. Now, more than ever is there's an onus to separate the wheat from the chaff and surface it, regardless of the tool set.
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
Agreed. Also, the concept of “literacy” has evolved over time, and I think it will continue to do so.
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Adam
@adam-
Absolutely! It’s the puritans who feel threatened by change and push back the hardest at any instance of something that doesn’t pass their litmus test. That’s not to say there aren’t issues and nuances to debate, but people cast aspersions flippantly, and the literary world is one of the worst offenders.
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
Yeah. I definitely think it’s a complicated topic. And I do think it’s important to question and be critical of all big societal and technological changes. But I think it’s also important to consider how we are on one small zoomed-in piece of a massive timeline. A big part of my job involves writing. And I also give feedback on my coworkers’ writing before we send them to our editor. I personally don’t use LLMs to do the writing for me. When I do use them, it’s to brainstorm initial ideas, rework paragraph structure, experiment, etc. Mostly this is just because I’m obstinate, and I don’t like to be told what to write (by human or by machine) 😂
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