I’ve been writing fiction collaborately with Sonnet since 3.6 came out. I found that 4.5 is better at writing. But the biggest jump I’ve seen is in literary analysis and criticism. When I gave 4.5 my story collection, it was able to identify the most promising one and it also dismissed a few that it said were failures (I mostly agree). I think I could get some interesting results by putting the model through ideate-generate-criticize loops.
I want to point out that getting the model to one-shot a story without even a plot or a concept is the hardest possible task. Much like in other fields (like programming) you can see steady linear progress by working collaboratively with the model and supervising it. Whereas if you just ask it to one-shot a story (or an app, or a legal document) you will see little progress for a long time, until all the right pieces come together.
Therefore, it’s all the more impressive that you were impressed a this one-shot story (although it’s informed by the works in the context window).
I don’t really see the appeal. The metaphor of a man paying another to fuck his mistress comes to mind. “Centaur writing” won’t be competitive for long, anyway. Prompting will be a matter of selection for a single user. And a predictive model of one’s preferences will outsource even that near-vestigial organ of creativity. Eager Readers In Your Area had it backwards. Creative acts will be done by humans and judged by AIs, like so many gymgoers running on treadmills. A ridiculous act that may be necessary for some people’s health, but there may be more dignity in just evolving into a sponge.
The appeal for me is simple: I’m not a professional writer. I have a lot of ideas and concepts that I want to explore. But writing is so toilsome and time-consuming that I basically never do it (I mean fiction; i still write my own posts.)
So all these ideas would go unexpressed if I didn’t go Centaur. I do it for myself: I’m usually content to keep the story to myself after I write it. But if I ever published, I would credit Sonnet with 50% of the work (although I know it’s extremely unpopular to claim having used AI for creative writing.)
i am just mad/coping. is fine. utter hypocracy on my part, given i care little for visual art and music. It is one thing to see the train coming and another to feel a small rumble beneath your feet.
Thank you for sharing. I’ve enjoyed this story.
I’ve been writing fiction collaborately with Sonnet since 3.6 came out. I found that 4.5 is better at writing. But the biggest jump I’ve seen is in literary analysis and criticism. When I gave 4.5 my story collection, it was able to identify the most promising one and it also dismissed a few that it said were failures (I mostly agree). I think I could get some interesting results by putting the model through ideate-generate-criticize loops.
I want to point out that getting the model to one-shot a story without even a plot or a concept is the hardest possible task. Much like in other fields (like programming) you can see steady linear progress by working collaboratively with the model and supervising it. Whereas if you just ask it to one-shot a story (or an app, or a legal document) you will see little progress for a long time, until all the right pieces come together.
Therefore, it’s all the more impressive that you were impressed a this one-shot story (although it’s informed by the works in the context window).
I don’t really see the appeal. The metaphor of a man paying another to fuck his mistress comes to mind. “Centaur writing” won’t be competitive for long, anyway. Prompting will be a matter of selection for a single user. And a predictive model of one’s preferences will outsource even that near-vestigial organ of creativity. Eager Readers In Your Area had it backwards. Creative acts will be done by humans and judged by AIs, like so many gymgoers running on treadmills. A ridiculous act that may be necessary for some people’s health, but there may be more dignity in just evolving into a sponge.
The appeal for me is simple: I’m not a professional writer. I have a lot of ideas and concepts that I want to explore. But writing is so toilsome and time-consuming that I basically never do it (I mean fiction; i still write my own posts.)
So all these ideas would go unexpressed if I didn’t go Centaur. I do it for myself: I’m usually content to keep the story to myself after I write it. But if I ever published, I would credit Sonnet with 50% of the work (although I know it’s extremely unpopular to claim having used AI for creative writing.)
i am just mad/coping. is fine. utter hypocracy on my part, given i care little for visual art and music. It is one thing to see the train coming and another to feel a small rumble beneath your feet.