| re: FWIW, I think that doesn't sound anything like Brooks Atkinson (nm) | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 08:31 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
| In reply to: FWIW, I think that doesn't sound anything like Brooks Atkinson (nm) - AlanScott 03:19 pm EDT 05/26/23 | |
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| I agree, Alan, and I’ve read a lot of Atkinson. It reads like a typical—for now, anyway—AI-generated text. There’s a blandness to them. They follow specific templates, and if you read enough examples, you start to recognize them. There are certain sentence formations that get used over and over, with different nouns and/or adjectives, but the form is the same. They strike me as the sort of thing a smart fifth grader could devise: regurgitating the material in a mostly acceptable fashion, but lacking any kind of creativity. When my kids were in middle school, they had these dumbass writing exercises, centering on “eleven sentence paragraphs.” They were supposed to present facts or a position, then then two sentences of commentary, then some sort of closing argument. Maybe that sort of crap is useful to a kid who has no idea how to approach any kind of writing assignment, but as the daughters of two writers, our kids went bonkers facing that kind of stricture. The AI writing I’ve seen is like those kids, faced with “write something to fit this requirement,” so they vomit some words, and hope they’re in the right order. The ChatGPT and their ilk are also prone to making stuff up. I have a bunch of writer friends who asked the AIs for author biographies. Oh, if only they had really done and written what the AIs said they had! Laura in LA |
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