I have an acquaintance that has been spending a lot of time creating a set of instructions for an LLM that will get it to generate a story.
He is quite sensitive to comments against LLMs and their ilk, so I haven’t bothered telling him that what I think he’s doing is creating a jigsaw puzzle solver. It doesn’t choose what it wants as an image, it doesn’t create the image, it doesn’t create the cutting pattern that makes a puzzle from the image-all it does it solve the puzzle really, really fast. And often incorrectly. Not enough pieces, the edges don’t match, some parts are upside down…
And why this idea that everybody ought be able to do everything? I’m a short, fat, unathletic white woman. Should I get upset when I have no jump and can’t play even a pick-up game of basketball? Another friend has cerebral palsy and can only type with one finger for short bursts. He’s managed to get published in several languages, and new editors are contacting him all of the time. He doesn’t even like speech to text programs, much less getting the software to “write” anything.
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