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Not super related but a friend of the family I’m visiting stopped by yesterday and was bragging about her son, who recently prompted an LLM to write a fantasy series “in the style of the Witcher”, did some loose editing, and published the books on amazon. She wrapped up with “He did some research and it isn’t even plagiarism!”
I tried to look occupied with something else, but she explicitly called out to me “What do you think?” It took everything I had not to lunch into an anti-AI rant starting with “Actually, his pollution of the literary space syphoning money away from real authors is plagiarism, and here’s why!”
Gross. I would be dissapointed if that was my son
Well you'd have to find something to be proud of, and if this is his greatest accomplishment then pickings must be slim indeed...
Assuming he's a kid, that's a bit of a shitty take. Mom likely understands about half of what's going on and just proud he did something that's not watching brain rot YouTube.
If it was indeed a take, maybe. What I wrote is known as a "joke". At least, that's what I call it when I say or write something that I don't necessarily think is true, but I do think is funny to write or say.
As far as the actual act of prompting a "novel" out of an LLM and self publishing on Amazon goes, it's mostly harmless and I'm not mad. He could be doing much worse things with access to an AI model.