#try chatgpt

[cheruib]

i hope one day i wake up and every trace of ai is deleted from this earth 👍

[maxvalueplus]

[elf-trash]

generative AI is an existential threat to creative spaces. fandom is a community governed space, so it's crucial that we collectively draw a line in the sand about its use. we must not try to distract from the issue at hand by attempting to deflect or dismiss it as an issue of fandom bullying or ship wars. creators must be transparent about AI use and the only way to enforce this is collectively, as a community, if we want to protect the precious creative space that is fandom.

[crow-caller]

I really do think looking at bad writing is one of the best ways to learn about writing in general, especially for beginners.

the thing is, writing in general is highly subjective- a good sentence will be good in different ways to different people, or not impress someone at all.

a bad sentence? most people can spot bad sentences easy, especially if it is presented to them as 'here's an example of a bad sentence, let's unpack why.'

bad writing can also be very funny, which I think is again often more engaging than 'here's a work of literary genius go analyze it'. Like here's some bad writing from lightlark3:

The moment it was out of Horus’s grip, his body became bones. The flesh turned to ash. He became a corpse.

it's dumb as hell, but I think could foster a solid discussion when you ask 'why? what is the author intending to say? what about it makes it feel 'clunky'? How would you write the same idea?'

[nochd]

So, without telling us, Microsoft has removed WordPad from our computers. Anything you used to use WordPad for will now open in Microsoft Word.

At the same time, Microsoft have inserted an AI feature called "Copilot" in Microsoft Word which runs automatically unless you turn it off.

I've been using WordPad rather than Word for twenty years because every time they make Word fast enough to be convenient, they stuff it with "features" and slow it down again. I don't need a grammar checker and I can spellcheck well enough without a red wiggly line and I don't want to have to manually turn off the less-than-helpful auto-replacements for when I'm writing a fictional name that happens to have a common misspelling in it. The only thing I ever needed to open anything in Word for was to check the word-count.

But this? This is vastly worse.

I'm looking into a thing called LibreOffice, but it doesn't seem to have a bug-free way to edit documents in Rich Text Format (the one WordPad saves things to).

[aropride]

if you've used it in middle/high school And in college, vote for the most recent one

[sillygoofyqueer]

Deity Jester AU to come later today, for now take this random brainworm I had this morning: MDZS modern AU where Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji get paired up for a school project to their equal dismay. Wei Wuxian tries to use ChatGPT because "oh em gee it's so much easier than having to sit around writing!" but every time he does this, Lan Wangji reads it and goes "no AI." because he's like a human AI detector and can tell that this lifeless slop is not written by a human. It gets to the point where it's taking up more time to try and get AI past Lan Wangji than just writing out his part, so Wei Wuxian finally, begrudgingly caves and writes up his part of the essay. Lan Wangji reads it and is like "this is the most beautiful writing I've ever seen" because it's just wild and fantastical and so obviously a sign of just humanity. Human intellect and thought processes. It may go off the rails at some points (Lan Wangji has the version history pulled up just to be sure that there hasn't been anything added in, and there are many instances of a completely insane paragraph being written only to be entirely deleted because the moral debate of nature versus nurture doesn't actually have anything to do with the historical battle of whenever the fuck), but it is brilliant. Cut to Lan Wangji trying to Pavlov Wei Wuxian into not using AI.

[wildwood-faun]

we really need to start calling generative ai and analytical ai different things. they are not the same animal.

[wintersoulwitch]

[kaiserouo]

ordan karris is sick of how slow their relationship went

[foxwithapen]

"I asked chatgpt—" yeah well I fucking didn't. What then huh.

[regheart]

i think a huge collateral issue of widespread ai use is that as a consequence of people trying to pass off gen ai content as not that, and whether that is a school essay or fanart or the fucking news, we have to figure out little ways in which we can tell something wasn't made by a human, and between the discourse around the em dash and weird looking art, i'm starting to see many ways in which it negatively affects the way we interact with online media. people who don't use ai get accused of doing it because they write in a way that sounds a little off, or they have to include typos in their assignments so they aren't accused of anything. i find myself overanalyzing art and i don't think that's fair to artist because i know i have certain biases, i know i'm more likely to assume art i don't like was made by ai and try to prove it somehow, i know beginner artists are more prone to mistakes with blending or anatomy or perspective or consistency and those things get pointed out a lot as evidence of ai, which isn't fair to them at all because they should be allowed to make these mistakes without being accused! anyway this is just something that has been frustrating for me for a number of reasons i won't even get to the topic of realistic looking videos that is a whole nightmare on its own

[podiumdan]

asking chatgpt which taylor swift songs fits these drivers

[bythehearts]

not to bring tiktok drama on tumblr but like every time a ‘scandal’ comes out with one of these ‘production companies’ that make fan films i always hope we’re finally gonna discuss how they professionalize something that should be an hobbyist endeavor… and yet every single time i’m disappointed.

[measureformeasure]

i think one of the best approaches to ai in classrooms debate is to get rid of bullshit work generative ai can do and just write assignments that can't be answered well w/ chatgpt but unfortunately quite a lot of school is built on bullshit work. also to be more forgiving generally