>get told you should read him, and that he is one of the American greats>open the most approachable book that's not a play>"He went on beneath the moonless canopy where the corpse bloom steamed in its secret chapel of rot and the old upside down water trees lifted their swollen bellies to the stars and the thorn crowned camel deer moved pale among the mopane shadows and the velvet nosed forest horse watched from the green ruin and the owl parrot muttered in the black fern gullies like a condemned monk and the bearcat passed above him carrying its musk of burnt sugar and rain and the long fingered night lemur tapped at the bark as if counting the sins of the living and beyond them all the salt faced spiral horned ghosts of the steppe stood in the wind with their ruined little trumpets and he walked among these witnesses as if the world had been made not for man but for everything that had endured him">thank you Cormac, very cool
Pretty good impersonation for AI.
>>25325005I asked it to use flora and fauna names that aren't native to Texas, Colorado etc. for extra funsies.
>>25325008It's funny how AI exposes every writer as pretty much *just* a bag of tricks and not really that soulful.
>>25325068I hate you pseuds so goddamn much
>>25325068If you would’ve called every person a bag of tricks I could get behind your bullshit but as it is you’re a shallow minded uninteresting sac of shit
>>25325301>>25325359Your art form is just a Lego stack of formalisms. AI can replicate it perfectly. Cope.
>>25325364You're a shitty writer, aren't you?
>>25325520I would never be so retarded as to invest time in a form that AI is will soon be world class in.
Geez, this made me want to see what GPT would spit out if I asked it to copy my writing. This is what it said:>I maintain that the average person has no business being allowed to choose the colour of commercial carpeting. This thought occurred to me while staring at a geometric maroon-and-beige pattern in an Applebee's outside of Red Deer. The carpet appeared to have been designed by a committee of exhausted middle managers whose collective aesthetic vision was "inoffensive." There is no tyrant more cruel than a committee.>My father was cutting into a steak. My mother was trying to convince the waitress to bring her extra lemon slices. I was attempting to determine whether the decorative wagon wheel hanging on the wall had ever been attached to an actual wagon. It had not. You can tell. Real objects possess a dignity that replicas never achieve. The wheel was too symmetrical. Too clean. Too eager to be a wagon wheel.. . . >"I feel sorry for young people," my father remarked.>"You are young people," I replied.>"No. I mean younger.">"Than me?">"Than all of us.">I looked around. The restaurant was filled with televisions. Every wall had one. Baseball. Hockey. News. Commercials. An entire civilization staring upward, like medieval peasants contemplating the ceiling of a cathedral-- Only instead of Christ Pantocrator, they had discount chicken wings.>A waitress dropped a tray somewhere behind me. The crash echoed through the restaurant.>Everyone turned.>Then everyone returned to eating, as if nothing had happened. That struck me as profound.>The human capacity to ignore catastrophe is incredible.
>>25326002You already invest time in resenting people online who are better at you at an artform. Why not do something more productive, instead of treating 4chan as your therapist? Can't you use AI for that now? Why come on here specifically and tell us this instead of going to a speaker that will give you instant answers and take seriously everything you say? Because no one here takes you seriously.
>>25326002Nobody wants to read some soulless amalgam of prior writers wrapped as a book anon
>>25326047What do you think of it?
>>25326054Put together a book of these outputs and I guarantee you will get some sales on Amazon.
>>25326067Sure, but surely writing, putting your thoughts on paper into a narrative, the successful construction of a form, is of some value to a finite person such as yourself.
>>25326073They're not mutually exclusive lol. It takes half an hour to make an AI book.
>>25326084They are mutually exclusive in that only one of them is an avenue that further develops your human skills through practice.
>>25326053I have no issue with the use of generative AI in fine art, but literature is such an intimate medium that in principle I agree with you. What's the point of reading something impersonal. But there's a real chance that at some point, rather sooner than later, AI will write the greatest novels ever written by far and we'll have to grapple with that. It's easy to dismiss it while the best it can do is a party trick of impersonating someone's voice, but, I don't know, man. I find exciting the idea that these models could start churning out like nothing what otherwise would be era defining works if written by a person, just because I'm curious to see how people would react to that.
>>25326054I think it hit the nail on the head. I felt seen, in a sense, but i really do have a bag of tricks. I really do bitch about aesthetics, and juxtapose cosmic gradiosity (cathedrals) with hideous banal or commercial (cheap buffalo wings) and make some comment on eschatology or the demise of civilization. All the while the stuff really happening is rather slice of lifeBut the sentence structure is very GPT; IE>The pomp.>The circumstance.>Entirely gauche!
Anyone who thinks AI will create a piece of fiction that is as good a human being is either 1) a total idiot, or 2) a shitty writer.
>>25326331AI can only write derivative schlock. Literally just the most focused tested milquetoast capeflick shit.
