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ericafails.bsky.social • 429 days ago

And some people eat the paper wrapper around their food

Some authors are embracing chatbots as the latest iteration of an ancient literary conceit: a "muse", or an extra intelligence, a supplemental mental database (A.O. Scott/New York Times)

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verosthewriter.bsky.social•429 days ago

I have a hunch that these "writers" trying to justify their own jobs being stolen by lazy, greedy tech companies are almost entirely made up or paid off to try to balance out the bad press.

monsterteatime.bsky.social•429 days ago

I'm sorry, but I just cackled. That's just...one of the best insults.

electriceden92.bsky.social•429 days ago

I'm not kidding, these people frighten me more than the techies, because the techies are aware on some level that it's a con - they aren't, because they bought into a cockamamie idea of 'progress' back in 1993 and made it a central part of their identity https://bsky.app/profile/electriceden92.bsky.social/post/3khpe6u6xmx2f

johnpbruni.bsky.social•429 days ago

These authors haven't watched Her (2013) all the way through.

dangerblond.bsky.social•429 days ago

Can’t wait to steal this. 👍🔥

tedcruzinusa.bsky.social•429 days ago

Author: Write a description of the love interest’s body.
ChatGPT: Her boobs were so big, they made watermelons look like grapefruit.
Author: You are my muse.

pandragon.bsky.social•428 days ago

The first time I ate a tamale I did eat the husk. Nobody breathed a word🤣 I deserved it

thelasttheorist.bsky.social•429 days ago

Hard to get fiber these days.

alanrileyscott.bsky.social•429 days ago

Hey don't lump us in with them! There's good fiber in that paper.

mathiaspapam.bsky.social•429 days ago

Exactly! I may eat muffin paper and Starburst wrapper, but I do have *some* standards

novakorpov.bsky.social•429 days ago

I don't have time to unwrap EVERY Starburst

emmahouxbois.bsky.social•428 days ago

ashhiggins.bsky.social•429 days ago

I can understand "I need some externality to write" sometimes I go to a cafe, but I think that typing is "working with my hands" and thus a form of labor so if type ALL my novel and you only type 1/4th of yours I should at least be paid more.

chryssf.bsky.social•429 days ago

It was ONE TIME and I was DEEPLY JETLAGGED.

ericafails.bsky.social•429 days ago

Allowed

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