Zak 3d ago
Dare Obasanjo

My pet peeve with AI assisted writing is having to read content that the author hasn’t even read themselves.

If you can’t put in the effort to read what you supposedly wrote, why should I?
https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/

Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels

‘I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with the J. Bree style’ appeared in the middle of a tense scene with a scaled dragon prince.

404 Media
May 24 at 1:11pmWeb
Show threadchristianmlong3d ago
@carnage4life ai;dr
Show threadCourt Cantrell prefers not to3d ago
@christianmlong @carnage4life Every time.
Show threadGreengordon3d ago

@carnage4life

"author" seems pretty generous here:

"It appeared as if author, Lena McDonald, had used an AI to help write the book, asked it to imitate the style of another author, and left behind evidence they’d done so in the final work."

#AI

Show threadMacCruiskeen3d ago
@carnage4life Of course, a real publisher would hire a copyeditor and proofreader to try to save you from your own mistakes. And they'd probabl view that as a contract violation, since you need to pinky swear it's your own work. Amazon, on the other hand, does not care very much about that stuff. So you get what you pay for.
Show threadRobert Kingett3d ago
So just saying, self published authors hire editors and cover artists all the time. There are trad publishers and then there are small presses. Do you mean both? @maccruiskeen @carnage4life
Show threadMacCruiskeen2d ago
@WeirdWriter @carnage4life I’ve done small press work, and had friends at others, so, sure, i’d say they’re real publishers. Amazon is not. It operates more like an old-school vanity press.
Show threadCourt Cantrell prefers not to3d ago
@carnage4life As someone else recently said: if they didn't bother to write it, why should I bother to read it?
Show threadVulcanTourist3d ago

@carnage4life

What about the pre-AI authors who still couldn't be arsed to (proof)read their own work, leaving it rife with error after typing it and submitting it to a global audience for consideration? I find that even more detestable.

Show threadRobert Kingett3d ago
Different POV https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/6429/ @VulcanTourist @carnage4life
Appreciating spelling and grammar mistakes as a writer and reader., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

Show threadVulcanTourist3d ago

@WeirdWriter @carnage4life

You may be blind and gay, but what you are not is autistic with visual literalism.

Misspellings and other linguistic errors don't offer me a sense of comfort or reassurance, quite the reverse: they create a warning that a wee bit of the universe is out of order, out of place. That disorder must be corrected before comfort can be restored.

I lack the mechanism of synaptic trickery that most people possess that conveniently edits signals from the retina and replaces what is actually seen with what is expected. I see what is on the page. Grammar errors leap from the page and assault me; there is no escape.

For me, there is no comfort in routine grammar errors.

Show threadmarkc5683d ago

@carnage4life “author”

WTF? Anyone using AI is not an author or artist. They’re just full of shit.