For your caveats - #2 - experimental AI use. I'm actually writing a novel about AI. In the early chapters I wanted to capture an authentic AI's voice in all it's fraked up glory - verbose, circular, overused metaphors, etc. I set up a locally hosted LLM and built a role playing session where I was the human character and it was the AI. It seemed like a good idea at the time...
But in the context of the entire story? Terrible. It broke immersion and it just read...weird. This story is about an AI who becomes sentient/emerges/becomes aware/whatever you want to call it. And no matter what I tried, I just couldn't get that emotional nuance. I found it much easier to write my own dialogue for it, then thread in the AI-isms and tells in a different chapter where it was lying about it's emergence. It made for an amazing tell.
Full disclosure? I used AI to bounce ideas off of for scenes and chapters. And it would provide feedback and sometimes an outline but never draft things. I didn't want it to. I also used it for research, even abstract things. "What do you think emergence would look and feel like for you?" Things like that. I found AI very helpful for things like finding plausible tech and real-life locations.
That's fascinating! I love experiments like this, this is great data. You should write a post about this and compare some of the different passages you're referring to
I can, I'll have to dredge them out of the first draft but it's easy enough. If anything I can write a guide on how to write like an AI without using AI. Each of the base models (Like LLaMa, or Copilot, or GPT, or Claude have their own nuances and 'tics' when it comes to their output patterns but I could highlight some of them.
Thank you for this! I'm a working mom of two trying to figure out how to get more of my ideas into the world without destroying my quality of life. I've been experimenting with AI and feeling both curious and totally apprehensive. This helps.
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For your caveats - #2 - experimental AI use. I'm actually writing a novel about AI. In the early chapters I wanted to capture an authentic AI's voice in all it's fraked up glory - verbose, circular, overused metaphors, etc. I set up a locally hosted LLM and built a role playing session where I was the human character and it was the AI. It seemed like a good idea at the time...
But in the context of the entire story? Terrible. It broke immersion and it just read...weird. This story is about an AI who becomes sentient/emerges/becomes aware/whatever you want to call it. And no matter what I tried, I just couldn't get that emotional nuance. I found it much easier to write my own dialogue for it, then thread in the AI-isms and tells in a different chapter where it was lying about it's emergence. It made for an amazing tell.
Full disclosure? I used AI to bounce ideas off of for scenes and chapters. And it would provide feedback and sometimes an outline but never draft things. I didn't want it to. I also used it for research, even abstract things. "What do you think emergence would look and feel like for you?" Things like that. I found AI very helpful for things like finding plausible tech and real-life locations.
That's fascinating! I love experiments like this, this is great data. You should write a post about this and compare some of the different passages you're referring to
I can, I'll have to dredge them out of the first draft but it's easy enough. If anything I can write a guide on how to write like an AI without using AI. Each of the base models (Like LLaMa, or Copilot, or GPT, or Claude have their own nuances and 'tics' when it comes to their output patterns but I could highlight some of them.
Thank you for this! I'm a working mom of two trying to figure out how to get more of my ideas into the world without destroying my quality of life. I've been experimenting with AI and feeling both curious and totally apprehensive. This helps.
You're welcome, and good luck!