Robin Hobb's fiction has been translated into dozens of languages and sold millions of copies. At age 73, she should be able relax and enjoy her last few years of life as an esteemed author, right? Wrong. In blind polls, readers much prefer AI stories to her stories. And boy is she PISSED.https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ai-vs-authors-results-part-2.html?m=1
>>24744011Doesn't suprise me a bit Fantasy tards devour AI slop. That shit takes two braincells to write and one less to read.
They should have told the readers that the AI was written by a woman, then I'm sure they would have preferred Robin Hobb.
>>24744022Guarantee you'd get similar results with Franzen or something.
>>24744011Robin Hobb is a woman? I always imagined them as a bloke, not going to lie.
>>24744011I took the test, the first and last stories (Jenny Wurts and Robin Hobb) I got right, they have a distinctive style and read like an actual short story and a scene from a novel respectively. The rest were a toss-up because they were vignettes, which AI is good at. I think the real difference is that AI will always put out something that's ok and human will vary anywhere from dogshit to a masterpiece, with fewer masterpieces than dogshit, so it's not surprising AI is better on average because it's always average. Story 2 and story 6 were total crap, in fact I wonder if the author of story 2 (Chris/Miles Cameron) deliberately made it nonsensically vulgar to try and game the test because he thinks AI can't write rude stuff. I was surprised by story 6 (Mark Laurence) because it's not a story, just a "quirky"monologue, which is exactly the type of thing AI would write.
posted it again award
