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What is your opinion on using ChatGPT to help you write? I myself use it for moral boosters and when I'm doubting myself and ask it if something makes sense, nothing more as I'd never want a word of my novel to not be my own. But I've seen some hate online recently from writers saying that anyone who uses it at all isn't a writer? Which does make me awfully sad

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It's not hate – we're scared and frustrated. Not just for ourselves, because AI is a genuine threat to our livelihoods, but also for the next generation of writers, like you. It's going to be a lot harder to get discovered or published with AI-generated content flooding the Internet and the book market.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Meta trained Llama 3 on a massive body of pirated work. You can read more about it here. Meta employees knew this was morally wrong, but they did it anyway, because (1) they didn't want to pay anyone for the use of copyrighted work, and (2) they knew they could get away with it, and they have. They took our stories, born of real human experiences, and used them to feed something that's designed to be able to replace us. There are other reasons writers may be anti-AI, like the impact on the environment, but hopefully that gives you some context for why writers, specifically, are reacting to this so strongly.

You've said you wouldn't use ChatGPT to write your novel, which is great to hear. If you did, I would tell you that you weren't, in my opinion, a writer – just as I would never claim to be an artist if I used ChatGPT to create images, or a musician if I used it to generate a song. But I would also gently question why you feel like you need it to give you morale boosters or tell you if something makes sense. ChatGPT is not a human reader; unless you specifically instruct it not to flatter you, it will say what you want to hear. It isn't reacting to you, or to your story, with a human gut or a human heart. To me, any praise or encouragement it offers is empty. There's nobody and nothing behind it.

As for asking it to help you work out if something makes sense: I really do understand the temptation. I'm chronically ill, so I write at a slower pace than a lot of my colleagues, and it might help me churn out books faster if I asked ChatGPT to help me unpick a knot in the narrative, or fix a plot hole. But I don't want to surrender the ability to think and problem-solve for myself, and I would caution you against doing that – not just for the sake of your writing, but for everyday life. In this era of disinformation and propaganda, our ability to think, interrogate and analyse the world around us is more important than ever.

I can't stop you from using AI. But ask yourself: what would you have done before ChatGPT? Could you have figured out for yourself if something about your story makes sense? I think you definitely could have. It might have taken a bit longer, but you would have worked it out. I would encourage you to hold on to that ability. Cherish and nurture it. Rather than relying on artificial intelligence, trust your own.

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And not a single fuck was given that day.

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susan, ian and barbara: *says anything*

first doctor:

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Doctor who is truly the infinite happiness glitch more people should know about this

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Look I know this is the thing Everyone mentions when we say 7 is a lil fucked up actually but I just need everyone I know to see this scene. What’s up with this guy

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thinking tonight about Horrible Fates that befall dr who companions and their applicability to other dr who companions

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i've spent on this way too much and not enough time simultaneously

we are a very normal fandom and can be trusted with random users' posts

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every day I think about the Doctor and Donna’s friendship and how much they love each other and I cry

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omggggg

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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A side-by-side of the Mighty Nein animated designs next to the original Campaign 2 art by Ari

For literally no reason other than me wanting to have a way to look at everyone's Level 2 and adapted designs all at once

Bonus Essek:

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Turns out deciding to watch Classic Doctor Who was a very good idea 😁

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As interesting and touching as the original conception of regeneration was, it's incredibly funny that in power of the daleks the doctor just didn't fucking bother to explain any of that

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I love when the brigadier meets a new incarnation of the doctor, takes one look at them, and goes ‘well there’s only one person this freak could be’

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“I’m not a miracle worker.”

An Unearthly Child - season 01 - 1963

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The way Yaz immediately looks at Thirteen when Sarah says that “good-hearted weirdos are actually the keepers” and then tries to act like she didn't just do that the second Thirteen turns her head towards her.

Meanwhile Dan's just thinking: “I know what you are, Yasmin Khan... You're an idiot! OMG JUST TELL HER! Go on!”

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I NEED TO READ I NEED TO WRITE I NEED TO CREATE I NEED TO DRAW I NEED TO CLEAN I NEED TO WORK OUT I NEED TO LEARN *watches YouTube for 6 hours*