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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher

https://www.404media.co/bards-and-sages-closing-ai-generated-writing/

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.

Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

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shnizmuffin

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So, I tried using Google ~~Bard~~ Gemini to help write one-line Character Background descriptions for a 5e supplement I'm trying to write. I specifically feed it the longform descriptions and features I've already written and ask it to summarize. The output I get is so foreign and detached from my "voice," it's totally unusable.

Even when giving it more than you want to get out, it can't produce acceptable results. I can only imagine the drek this lady is being inundated with, and it makes me sad.

The only success I've had so far is telling it, "pluralize X in this paragraph," in places where I wrote something like, "A Painter paints for a living," and want it to be, "Painters paint for a living." (I'm pretty sure Microsoft Word could do this shit in the 90s.)