New prize launches for books co-written with AI
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1483154/new-prize-launches-for-books-co-written-with-ai
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To be better known as "The Sloppy".
Except not the good kind
The winner will be known as the Top Sloppy, not to be confused with sloppy toppy.
The runner up with be known as the Sloppy Seconds.
I think this is a good idea in that it will let me know which books to avoid. 😁 I'd rather read crap fanfic from unknown human writers than the most brilliant work ever written in the history of the universe done by AI.
Don't worry, most AI thrash will still pollute search results since it will be so bad it won't be even considered for the "prize".
So the Shit prize...
"Oatmeal prize awards honors blandest wastes of space"
The cuckky. Because you just sat there and watched DeepSeek write it for you.
Books that are highly valued for their exceptional quality until they are identified as being largely written by a.i. is a testimony to humans' vanity and literature circles' lack of humility.
ref :
Thélyson Orélien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9lyson_Or%C3%A9lien
There's a significant population who uses art to form a bond with the author's humanity, transcending time and space. What was the artist feeling when they made this? What did they hope I would feel? Finding out that the artist doesn't exist takes away half the work's appeal instantly.
What did the bot feel when it made this? What did it hope I would feel?
Very soon, when robots will indeed have feelings, you will be able to discuss that with them. Already, some humans, halfway between geniuses and psychotics, propose that a few earthly artificial beings are sentient.
Code up an LLM from scratch and it'll quickly disabuse you of any notion that it has feelings. It can definitely look like it has feelings, but it's a machine.
The human machine that i am appreciate your passion and naivety. Wishing you joy and happiness.
I knew there was a reason you were here and not just off having this conversation with chatgpt. 🙂
do you appreciate our conversation ?
I do. Have some upvotes. Someone voted you down, but it wasn't me.