let's Captain Kirk an AI today!
Dec. 4th, 2022 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wembleyThis link has been going around: a Redditor and their friends "suspected that Sudowrites as well as other AI-Writing Assistants using GPT-3 might be scraping using AO3 as a 'learning dataset' as it is one of the largest and most accessible text archives."
I love playing with Talk To Transformer and Inferkit and seeing what weird shit it spits out, but there's a difference between playing with it yourself voluntarily, and having a bunch of hobby writing done for free scraped without your consent by who-knows-who for God-knows-what. This is probably me being inconsistent and hypocritical -- I think once your writing is out there, it's fair game for criticism (within reason and community norms (which should ideally be malleable)), remix, interpretation, and so on. But I see a difference between creative usage and this stuff.
So I've seen people joking around about writing the dirtiest a/b/o fic they can because then SudoWrites will "learn" to write that.
Except: a) SudoWrites already did that (see link above) and b) all that will do is make SudoWrites better at writing porn. It will only make SudoWrites more convincing as a writer and as an intelligence.
But. What if we write stories ALL IN CAPS? With weird grammar? Write from the POV of the Hulk! Or Cookie Monster! Or Doctor Doom! (wotwotleigh are actually doing this right now.) [ETA: We did it!]
What if we write stories backwards? Not just structured backwards, but with every sentence or word in reverse chronological order?
What if we write stories disemvowelled?
I get it, you don't want a bunch of trollfic clogging up your tags, but if you tag it "sudowrites", people can easily exclude that tag from searches.
This is trolling for the greater good. Join me, comrades.
I love playing with Talk To Transformer and Inferkit and seeing what weird shit it spits out, but there's a difference between playing with it yourself voluntarily, and having a bunch of hobby writing done for free scraped without your consent by who-knows-who for God-knows-what. This is probably me being inconsistent and hypocritical -- I think once your writing is out there, it's fair game for criticism (within reason and community norms (which should ideally be malleable)), remix, interpretation, and so on. But I see a difference between creative usage and this stuff.
So I've seen people joking around about writing the dirtiest a/b/o fic they can because then SudoWrites will "learn" to write that.
Except: a) SudoWrites already did that (see link above) and b) all that will do is make SudoWrites better at writing porn. It will only make SudoWrites more convincing as a writer and as an intelligence.
But. What if we write stories ALL IN CAPS? With weird grammar? Write from the POV of the Hulk! Or Cookie Monster! Or Doctor Doom! (
wotwotleigh are actually doing this right now.) [ETA: We did it!]What if we write stories backwards? Not just structured backwards, but with every sentence or word in reverse chronological order?
What if we write stories disemvowelled?
I get it, you don't want a bunch of trollfic clogging up your tags, but if you tag it "sudowrites", people can easily exclude that tag from searches.
This is trolling for the greater good. Join me, comrades.
