Nov 6, 2022
kiddash3rI recommend you check out this twitter thread, you'll get a great overview of how Rumi was westernized and some great translation recommendations in the replies
https://twitter.com/PersianPoetics/status/1261745279860080641https://twitter.com/PersianPoetics/status/1261889666778910723lol that Coleman mother f***er is the reason why i made the post in this thread
good looks though thank you for this
Dec 15, 2022🤖!dream harry potter with a gun
Dec 19, 2022started the SOIAF after dropping it years ago. The worldbuilding is so rich from the jump. i find grrm’s prose lacking on ocassion but he more than makes up for it in characterization and the vivid-ness of westeros
Emu 🇮🇱Dec 25, 2022·2 repliesAuthors on Amazon Kindle are now using ChatGPT to help them pump out new novels for the masses. What's your opinion on this? Would you pay for a novel that was created in ChatGPT? Should there be a way to label them? Do you agree what direction this is going? I can see a future where the Kindle store will be flooded with AI generated books drowning out human writers, where famous books will have scandals exposing that they were written using AI. But, I also feel like it's an inevitable future and ChatGPT can be used as a tool to help break writers block, to turn complex, abstract concepts ideas in someone's head into human-readable language. People can outline the boundaries of the world they''re trying to create and ChatGPT fills it in or ChatGPT could draw a rough skeleton and people flesh it in. I think like most technology it has the potential to be used for bad and good and I just hope people will use it more for the latter.
plants 🌻Dec 27, 2022·2 repliesEmuAuthors on Amazon Kindle are now using ChatGPT to help them pump out new novels for the masses. What's your opinion on this? Would you pay for a novel that was created in ChatGPT? Should there be a way to label them? Do you agree what direction this is going? I can see a future where the Kindle store will be flooded with AI generated books drowning out human writers, where famous books will have scandals exposing that they were written using AI. But, I also feel like it's an inevitable future and ChatGPT can be used as a tool to help break writers block, to turn complex, abstract concepts ideas in someone's head into human-readable language. People can outline the boundaries of the world they''re trying to create and ChatGPT fills it in or ChatGPT could draw a rough skeleton and people flesh it in. I think like most technology it has the potential to be used for bad and good and I just hope people will use it more for the latter.
https://twitter.com/authorMsBev/status/1606764845000495110i find the whole thing very...unsettling
and my instinct is to say "i would never f*** with a writer who used AI in any way" but then I try and put myself in their position and like you said it could be a useful tool but just...eughhh idk...idfw ai
Dec 27, 2022plantsi find the whole thing very...unsettling
and my instinct is to say "i would never f*** with a writer who used AI in any way" but then I try and put myself in their position and like you said it could be a useful tool but just...eughhh idk...idfw ai
Dec 30, 2022·1 replyDo you guys read more than one book at a time
- plants 🌻Dec 31, 2022Mictlan
Do you guys read more than one book at a time
sometimes but usually only two at a time. right now I'm reading the seven principles of making marriage work and brave new world. i like the contrast
Dec 31, 2022Gotta finish Slaughterhouse Five. It's crazy because I'm enjoying it, but I've been putting it off for a while. Almost halfway through
Dec 31, 2022just started the red rising series
- Jan 1, 2023
Just finished the mistborn trilogy couple days ago
Bout to start era 2 and them stormlight archive
- Emu 🇮🇱Jan 2, 2023·1 replyplants
i find the whole thing very...unsettling
and my instinct is to say "i would never f*** with a writer who used AI in any way" but then I try and put myself in their position and like you said it could be a useful tool but just...eughhh idk...idfw ai
But, I feel like it's a chicken and egg thing. What is more important, inspiration or perspiration. You can wait for days, weeks, months until you finally come up with something. Or you can use AI to get you at least started somewhere and then build it into something bigger thereby accelerating what you want to create. I like to think of it as in having a blurry mental image in your brain and AI is your prescription glasses that allow you to see your vision clearly. There is so much potential out there and so many people stuck in writers block that just need that one push.
Like my first reaction was like yours, oh god great, AI generated books... this is the death of the author. But, then I realize authors' ideas are already filtered and/or amplified by so many other abstraction layers like language, culture/values/censorship, time, money, what the editors are thinking, what the publisher is thinking, what the interior layout designers think about how it's structured, the cover designer can set the entire vibe and what mental imagery people are painting surrounding the book, etc. There are so many layers and all of them have an influence on how the final work of art is being experienced by the reader and maybe it's not fair to single out AI as the bad one, at least not yet. For now it is just another abstraction layer and only time will tell where this is going, but I think the author will remain the "director" who is still in charge of the vision behind a book.
- plants 🌻Jan 2, 2023Emu
But, I feel like it's a chicken and egg thing. What is more important, inspiration or perspiration. You can wait for days, weeks, months until you finally come up with something. Or you can use AI to get you at least started somewhere and then build it into something bigger thereby accelerating what you want to create. I like to think of it as in having a blurry mental image in your brain and AI is your prescription glasses that allow you to see your vision clearly. There is so much potential out there and so many people stuck in writers block that just need that one push.
Like my first reaction was like yours, oh god great, AI generated books... this is the death of the author. But, then I realize authors' ideas are already filtered and/or amplified by so many other abstraction layers like language, culture/values/censorship, time, money, what the editors are thinking, what the publisher is thinking, what the interior layout designers think about how it's structured, the cover designer can set the entire vibe and what mental imagery people are painting surrounding the book, etc. There are so many layers and all of them have an influence on how the final work of art is being experienced by the reader and maybe it's not fair to single out AI as the bad one, at least not yet. For now it is just another abstraction layer and only time will tell where this is going, but I think the author will remain the "director" who is still in charge of the vision behind a book.
You make some good points but i still just dont f*** with it
- plants 🌻Jan 2, 2023·1 reply
Started The Song of Synth which my best friend gave me years ago. Just never had the mental clarity to read cuz i was high all the time. Now I'm eating these books up
- Jan 2, 2023Emu
Authors on Amazon Kindle are now using ChatGPT to help them pump out new novels for the masses. What's your opinion on this? Would you pay for a novel that was created in ChatGPT? Should there be a way to label them? Do you agree what direction this is going? I can see a future where the Kindle store will be flooded with AI generated books drowning out human writers, where famous books will have scandals exposing that they were written using AI. But, I also feel like it's an inevitable future and ChatGPT can be used as a tool to help break writers block, to turn complex, abstract concepts ideas in someone's head into human-readable language. People can outline the boundaries of the world they''re trying to create and ChatGPT fills it in or ChatGPT could draw a rough skeleton and people flesh it in. I think like most technology it has the potential to be used for bad and good and I just hope people will use it more for the latter.
https://twitter.com/authorMsBev/status/1606764845000495110my question is does the ai learn from other air produced books so would it end up basically being chatgpt being based mainly on other ai produced art
- plants 🌻Jan 3, 2023plants
Started The Song of Synth which my best friend gave me years ago. Just never had the mental clarity to read cuz i was high all the time. Now I'm eating these books up
banged out brave new world in a few days, now already halfway thru this one.
gonna f***in obliterate my target of one a month
joyfully obliterate no less
Jan 4, 2023·1 replya mf just bought some books
Jan 5, 2023Got “The Goldfinch” as a gift over the holidays, maybe i’ll get to it this year at some point
- Jan 5, 2023·1 replyrami
a mf just bought some books
Whatcha get?
- Jan 5, 2023·1 replyOVOTOPIA
Whatcha get?
Lolita, Frankenstein, American Psycho, A Wild Sheep Chase, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Didn't wanna get too much and they selection was limited in half price
they didn't have 1984, dune, or any marx s*** outside the manifesto sadly
- Jan 5, 2023·1 replyrami
Lolita, Frankenstein, American Psycho, A Wild Sheep Chase, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Didn't wanna get too much and they selection was limited in half price
they didn't have 1984, dune, or any marx s*** outside the manifesto sadly
Nice, what do you plan on reading first?
- Jan 5, 2023·1 replyOVOTOPIA
Nice, what do you plan on reading first?
frankenstein, then american psycho or murakami
- Jan 5, 2023·1 replyrami
frankenstein, then american psycho or murakami
Enjoy!
- Jan 5, 2023OVOTOPIA
Enjoy!
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- Jan 7, 2023
Very wholesome off ktt to have a book sxn