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LLMs are destroying the “small time author” ebook world, too. Unfortunately. Now the bar is typing prompts into ChatGPT for story paragraphs, and you can publish that junk on Amazon en masse.
Also…
LLMs can be a useful ufor coders who know what they’re doing, and use is strictly as a utility.
And for my personal writing, using local LLMs as a glorified thesaurus, hacking them into completion syntax and viewing their raw logprobs, really helps me over some mental stumbling blocks in my personal writing.
It’s mind boggling that text prediction models, which were always supposed to be dumb utilities akin to a calculator or dictionary, have been twisted into what they’re presented as, today. It’s insane.
It’s like everything that can be turned into a grift, becomes a grift, and people are lapping it up.