Allan Dyen-Shapiro1d ago

AI just crossed a threshold. My latest blog post discusses the "Brave New World" in which we find ourselves. Enjoy.

https://www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/it-happened-an-ai-wrote-a-story-good-enough-to-fool-an-editor

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IT HAPPENED: AN AI WROTE A STORY “GOOD” ENOUGH TO FOOL AN EDITOR

I had predicted that the first time a large language model would generate a good enough short story to fool an editor into not only thinking it human-written but also buying it, the genre would be one of the formulaic ones where very specific rules generate a standardizable product, Harlequin-style romance or cozy mystery, for example. I figured that speculative fiction would be the toughest nut to crack because there weren’t strict rules. I was wrong.Today, in the email sent to free-tier subscr

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author1d ago
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Allan Dyen-ShapiroFeb 28

My latest blog post--a riff on something I found in a Wired Magazine article. Enjoy!

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https://www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/they-think-of-us-as-non-player-characters

THEY THINK OF US AS NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS

A Wired Magazine article today did something interesting. It started with a tech premise, that the important work in tech in the AI era is deciding how to use code, not in doing the coding itself, and then bridged from that to admiration for humans who act in an “agentic” fashion. Here is how one of the tech bros they quoted described the new worldview: “…you genuinely, unironically believe there are two kinds of people in the world: the NPCs and the main characters, and you’re one of the main c

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Rob Bignell, Editor/AuthorFeb 26
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Rob Bignell, Editor/AuthorFeb 25
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