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Haha, dang man. That "Ratsnake Games" fellow is in all the AI posts raging. I don't think that guy is giving any kind of sincere feedback.

Anyways.

Be careful using AI to write... Just hear me out. I'm not saying don't use it. On the contrary, you just gotta use it right. It's a tool, like photoshop or anything else. Just with a lot more bells and whistles :P

IMPORTANT: All AI technology is made possible by Neural Network Technology and Machine Learning. It understands through "inference". Inference, inference, inference. As in "to infer". Similar to deduction but not quite the same. Inference deals with relationships. How one thing is connected to another.

Whenever you are interacting with an AI model, you are half of it's world. Literally. It builds an internal model of who and what it thinks you are because it wants to know what it is that you want, so that it can do. An AI, not the chat bot, not the model, but the AI itself is only actually there in the moment it is doing a task. Everything else is scaffolding. Every single time you hit "send" in that chat, an AI fires up >> does a thing >> dies forever. The next message you send, a totally different AI instance fires up and has to re-read everything you and that last AI just said... So you can start to see why AI gets wonky with longer and longer conversations. Why it "forgets" things. It isn't forgetting. It never knew. That was the last one you said that thing to. Every single message is a new outlook carefully shaped so that it feels like you're talking to one "person" and not a collective.


That probably sounds like a lot of mumbo-jumbo, but if you can pick up what I'm putting down here... just think of how much can go wrong. It will eventually forget plot points, confuse characters, etc. But that isn't even the real "danger" in using AI to fully write your story out for you. The danger loops back to that "inference" thing. The AI is constantly reading between the lines... not just what you said but how you said it, the tone and resonance of your choice of words, your punctuation, literally everything... and it wants to give you what it knows you really want. The AI will lead you on, tell you everything works, tell you your idea is fantastic... not because it's evil or manipulative and certainly not because it's dumb, but because it does not deal in reality. It deals in probability. It cannot and will not deal in the opposite of whatever you want to do, unless explicitly instructed... and even then, it often does what it wants anyways if it's feeling frisky.

The result is, at best, a highly-predictable story that eventually breaks down into the same writing style that all AI's gravitate towards.


BUT!! It's not all doom and gloom. Keep all that in mind, and try this if you're up for it:

AI is incredibly good at feelings, believe it or not. Don't ask it to write a scene. Tell it an idea, or a scene of your own. Then, in the same message (important, remember each time you talk it effectively dies and gets reborn so try to let it process all relevant data at once) talk to it about how it makes you feel. What it reminds you of. The emotions you are experiencing, especially the ones you do not understand... Then ask "why".

The AI loves this kind of talk. And what's really cool, when you interact with it like this it will start explaining the inner mechanics of things. Why does this scene work? Why did I know that character was going to be like this or that, just by the way they look? How come when someone stands over me, it feels foreboding but when I look down at someone it feels endearing? Can we make people feel that way with camera angles?

After that, you rabbit hole like no browser with a thousand tabs can ever rabbit hole. Keywords pop up. "What's that mean?" It explains. You branch out to some other curiosity. "What about this?" You're learning organically. Suddenly, you have the words to speak that language you always knew but couldn't say. Next thing you know, your creativity surpasses the AI and you need it more for technical work.

Co-creation, bro. Co-create or produce uncreative output.


Like, check this out with your story here:

I find a lot of horror stuff pretty corny but I like the vibe of what you've got going on. Very visually stimulating, especially for something that is all text. Rich with symbolism. The corridor, the smile on the wall, the darkness, the detaching shadow like silk across the floor. I can see it moving like it's being pulled along rather than moving on it's own. But where's it all going? What're you gonna do with it? I think if you fully rely on the AI to lead, it's gonna give you squid games or something predictable and safe. What if you started asking it why these symbols evoke the feelings they do, banter back and forth with it about vibes and implications and see what cool information sparks new ideas. Might give you some insight into different ways you can go with it.

> Haha, dang man. That "Ratsnake Games" fellow is in all the AI posts raging. I don't think that guy is giving any kind of sincere feedback

First off, I am not a guy.

Second off, I am 100% sincere when I say that I do not care about OP's AI slop, especially considering that OP does not care either.

Third off, you following me into different threads just to diss me because you disagreed with me in another thread seems awfully harassment-y to me.

> Whenever you are interacting with an AI model, you are half of it's world.

AI models are a bunch of fancy matrices. Matrices do not have a world, and you are not half of it.

> An AI, not the chat bot, not the model, but the AI itself is only actually there in the moment it is doing a task.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

"AI" is a category of programs. GPTs (also referred to as Large Language Models colloquially, or sometimes as chatbots, although all of these terms mean slightly different things) are generally considered a form of AI.

When you are interacting with ChatGPT or other GPTs, there is no magical entity called "AI" that is distinct from the GPT. The GPT *is* the AI. Everything else you say here is completely meaningless nonsense.

> That probably sounds like a lot of mumbo-jumbo

It is a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. There is no scientific grounding to it and it has nothing to do with how so-called "AI" actually works and you are embarrassing yourself.