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Verily, in article <1084m49$cfq6$
1@dont-email.me>, did
agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM deliver unto us this message:
Literature works the same way. There's only a certain way words and
ideas can be put together to write good description, dialogue, and a
good story. Why do you think AI writes better than most humans?
It's because most people can't write very well.
My own writing is better than an AI's writing. So is yours, for that
matter.
Just
look at TV and the movies and everything you see contains the same stock phrases and lines of speech repeated in every single show and movie.
Only in cliched works. It's not a good thing when the audience can
deliver expected lines like "Hey... be careful" or "NOOOOO!" right along
with the characters, on the first viewing.
This is becoming a problem in literature,too. One commentary I heard
thinks it's bleedthrough from fanfic. Fanfic is often hashtagged with
things like #longlostsister or #hurtcomfort so that readers can pick
works with particular emotions involved, and -- terrifingly -- BookTok
is starting to ask why traditionally published works don't have similar hashtags.
The books we love and remember generally contain some things we
*weren't* expecting.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always
depend on the support of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw
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