Co-opperative writing has been the first use I’ve found for these models that actually deeply appeals to me—I’d seen the examples of people talking to LLMs as companions (Replika, Character.ai, etc), which were certainly interesting but didn’t really hold much long term appeal. But using ChatGPT and GPT3 to speed up my creative writing has been amazing and I can’t imagine I will ever get bored of it. I have an endlessly patient beta reader to nod its head and encourage me when I bounce ideas off it, add a paragraph to finish up the scene I was bored with, fill in the places where I don’t have any particular ideas (“Okay, I need some kind of monster to jump out here—give me five quick descriptions of an original fantasy monster that would be found in a desert”)-- when before I probably would have just put a generic placeholder zombie or something.
Co-opperative writing has been the first use I’ve found for these models that actually deeply appeals to me—I’d seen the examples of people talking to LLMs as companions (Replika, Character.ai, etc), which were certainly interesting but didn’t really hold much long term appeal. But using ChatGPT and GPT3 to speed up my creative writing has been amazing and I can’t imagine I will ever get bored of it. I have an endlessly patient beta reader to nod its head and encourage me when I bounce ideas off it, add a paragraph to finish up the scene I was bored with, fill in the places where I don’t have any particular ideas (“Okay, I need some kind of monster to jump out here—give me five quick descriptions of an original fantasy monster that would be found in a desert”)-- when before I probably would have just put a generic placeholder zombie or something.
Is your writing online anywhere?