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I legit don’t get it. Is it about the US ? I mostly speak about France in my political comments so i’m not sure where they are going with that.

oh yeah silly me. That’s definitely not creepy 👍

hey you’re the creepy guy who reads comment history before replying to a conversation aren’t you ?

Am i getting downvoted ? It says 3 upvotes / 0 downvotes on my end.

What’s “eagleflavoured” ?

No i’m saying comedy (as in writing your jokes for you) is not something you should expect from language models. As a general rule, there is no tool that will make you a good writer, only (potentially) tools that can help you do more with your qualities as a writer. But it will never be funnier or more talented than you are.

That’s why i personally experiment with writing tools. Writing standup is one thing, but imagine you’re writing a sitcom or any form of serialized work. That’s a lot of fucking work and obviously if you’re starting out you can’t exactly afford to pay for assistant writers to do the menial labour that comes with it. Language models can come in handy in that scenario, but again you can’t expect them to be the genius in the room if you want a good show you have to bring the good ideas and the funnies. It’s a power tool and power tools don’t draw the plans for the house they just grind where you need grinding.

More like “you’re trying to paint with a hammer AND you’re holding it wrong”

a true conversationalist lmao you’re doing great buddy

Define “good at writing”. Good comedy is very difficult to attain and none of the models are anywhere near it, including the more recent ones.

I’ve been experimenting on creative writing tools with a bunch of writer friends, and the setup described in this paper is notoriously shit. I mean they come up to ChatGPT on v3.5 (or Bard lmao) and expect it to write comedy ? Jeez talk about setting yourself up for failure. That’s like walking up to a junior screenwriter and yelling “GIVE ME A JOKE” to them. I don’t understand why people keep repeating that mistake, they design experiments where they expect the model to be the source of creativity but that’s just stupid.

If you want to get output that is not entirely mediocre, you need something like a Dramatron architecture where you decouple various task (fleshing out characters, outlining at the episode level, outlining at the scene level, writing dialogues etc…) and maintain internal memory of what is being worked on. It is non-trivial to setup but it gets there sometimes - even the authors of this paper recognize that this would have probably produced better results. You also need a user able to provide good ideas that the model can work with, you can’t expect the good creative stuff to come from the robot.

Instinctively i’d say you have to treat the model like your own junior writer, and how do you make a junior writer useful ? By teaching them to “yes, and” in a writing room with better writers (in this case, the user). In that context, with a good experienced user at the helm, it can definitely bring value. Nothing groundbreaking but i can see how a refined version of this could help, notably with consistency, story beats, pacing, the boring stuff. GPTs are better critics than they are writers anyway.

That being said i never really pursued “pure comedy” on LLMs as it sounds like a lost battle. In my mind it’s kind of like tickling : if a machine pokes your ribs you don’t get the tickles, that only works when a human does it. I doubt they can fix that in the short or mid term.

holy shit you’re right i don’t know where i got the idea that it was the same format

To clarify : We’re talking about differences in the codebase here. They are still exactly the same game, with some very minor disparities in certain mechanics.

The technical differences tend to disappear over time because they rely more and more on the datapack format, which is shared between the two codebases.

But we are talking about freelancers, not about SEO or content marketing, more like content filling

Most SEO is done by freelancers (at least in my industry). When i talk about content marketing i mean anybody who writes blog posts and LinkedIn posts for companies. It was already shit long before AI arrived.

Yeah I’m not bashing anybody, my wife did that for a couple years I know how it is. There was a kind of golden period where it would even pay enough to let you do some quality stuff but when VC money stopped raining the market slumped almost immediately.

I think the bitter lesson here is that there’s a bunch of jobs where quality has zero importance.

If you take for example, content marketing, SEO, and ad copy writing… It’s a lot of bullshit, and it’s been filling the web with gpt-grade slop for 20 years now. If you can do the same for cheap I don’t see a reason not to.

Even without seeders, you can sometimes be lucky and resurrect old torrents that have been kept in cache by providers such as real debrid

I’ve been getting back into anarchy Minecraft as an old buddy of mine is kinda resurrecting a base I used to be active at.

The scene is mostly dead, on our main server it’s 2 to 4 players on average which is crazy to me. It used to be from 50 to 100 most evenings.

Now I’ve got a 2 million blocks trip to make, even auto walking on the nether roof that’s gonna take some time. But it’s also an occasion to revisit some historic milestones along the way! I was able to get my hands on one signed book a friend had given me some time before passing away so it’s also kind of an emotional journey.

So weird that’s the second time this week I see this game referenced. I would be so happy with a new one!