The slang term for them is Squids.
Posted on 06/01/2025 5:21:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Using AI to help write? The short answer is, I don't.
There is a person, Tim Boucher, who has used AI to write at least 97 books. That's impressive, but I would wager that if I got into reading one of them, it would be an intolerable slog that I wouldn't be able to get through.
That is because of my observations when getting AI to experimentally generate some fiction. Everything it writes is very hackneyed, very trite material. Everything always ends up positive, everyone is happy, there is little conflict or conflict resolution, and every character has the exact same voice.
I like my fiction to have current colloquial expressions, AI doesn't do that. I like to have little plot twists here and there, AI doesn't seem capable. When possible, I like to have my chapters end with a mike-drop sentence. AI hasn't been able to generate one of those.
I'm over 75% finished with my political-thriller / science-fiction novel, so I'm starting to think about leveraging AI to produce a book cover or promotional images and video shorts. Even there, the creativity seems constrained. You can readily identify images created by AI, they all have a certain subjective feel to them.
However, there is a place for automation. It isn't AI, exactly, but automated grammar and punctuation error-checking is a stellar function. It's caught a lot of my minor errors. Even then, sometimes, I'll take artistic license to have characters speak with a more 'real-life' tone, or to describe a circumstance with more punch.
Do like we did: Sandbox it.
Add me if I’m not already on it.
Wow. You got that up fast. What did it take AI to build out your prompt — two minutes?
Laz has probably taken longer. Obviously he will be among the first to be replaced. But the big question is, how would we know?
The core LLM models are biased to be kind and supportive, not critical— even Grok has this limitation. Using these as tools in the real world will require removing that constraint and letting them be hyper-critical if you want them to be. You are right, if the LLM is not overflowing with praise, it may bear a close look.
TL;DR
There is one particular model — not ChatGPT — that is very good at finding passive voice and suggesting active voice changes.
The slang term for them is Squids.
The slang term for them is Squids.
Circa Parliament of Whores (1991), he was the Mark Twain of the moment -- he never came anywhere near HST's raw insight despite the "gonzo" label applied to PJ -- and just as suddenly, he wasn't. He got too chummy with the Shrubbian neocons, and thought he was Hemingway in Kuwait.
Cthulhu Lite.
Far from an Elder God, though. Sized about as we humans are. A simple individual from this extraterrestrial race.
My comment was going to be “Is that a juvenile Cthulhu?”
We’re on the same page.
Would that ai be claude?
Their first translated message was, “Go Navy, Beat Army.”
/s
Okay, but I still like PJ’s stuff from NL. I read a few of Thompson’s but to me, he wasn’t as humorous.
If you guys are getting a Cthulhu vibe, then I failed.
That’s entirely fair. Seeing a PJ article in the 80s highlighted on NL or RS cover stand, was the reason to buy NL or RS for the flight if you were standing in an airport.
Parliament of Whores and Holidays in Hell were both worthwhile books.
I tried to write an AI novel but all the characters were named Bob.
;)
I would have needed a classified sandbox and tools to manage building 4 million lines of code. That wasn't in the original budget under the contract signed 5 years ago. I wasn't involved in the most recent proposal writing for the next contract, so I have no idea whether the option was considered. Just to add frosting on that cake, I'll be retiring June 8th, so I won't be actively involved anymore.
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