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Balázs Jámbor's avatar

Good idea to put those words for later usage (short story later). I will stole this idea. Sometimes I also run into parts what I can't use in the actual novel/short story. Most of the time I just write them down and then cut back. Writing later a short story from them... Hmm... After all, these are good story starters, yes. Thanks.

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

You're welcome.

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Carrie's avatar

I'm sure I meant to say "break into the bestsellers list." Oops. Anyway I am glad you got a short story out of the weirdness yesterday. I am also glad to see that you do cut stuff out sometimes as I was just wondering about a part in one of my stories that I definitely did not want in my final story whether it happened or not!

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

I cut stuff out of almost every story. But I do keep anything that happens in the story, as long as it happens per the character of the characters. In my world, it's never 'my' story. It's always my characters' story. I'm only helping them present it. I might do an upcoming post on "cutting stuff." :-) It's all part of cycling.

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Carrie's avatar

Sounds like a great idea for a post!

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Tiffanie Gray's avatar

Publisher Rocket can do a lot of the same things with categories, etc. But, I also realize it's a paid software.

And yes, LLMs lie (hallucinate) if they don't have an answer. They will even make citations and publications up if it fits their need. So, always check ANY advice given and certainly any "facts" given for veracity.

Perplexity AI is currently said to be one of the most "honest" of the gAIs currently, but I've never used it. I've had some friends use it and they say it does pretty good.

If you think of gAI as a personal assistant/research assistant in about the 8th grade, you get about the trust level you can give it, in my opinion. lol

My hubby teaches HS and all the teachers complain about how much trouble gAI is. Wikipedia was bad enough....

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

Thanks, Tiff. I was thinking your hubby was a lawyer?

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Tiffanie Gray's avatar

Lol.

Yeah, he was for a lot of years (mostly the really bad stuff, DV/Stalking/Child Abuse/etc - he might have loved to call on TJ...) He did that for about 13 years (he is still licensed, in 2 states, just not practicing). Then the doctors said he needed a new job if he didn't want to come to an abrupt end. So, he used Troops to Teachers through the VA and became a High School teacher. He's been doing that for 13 years now.

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

WAY cool! Congrats.

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Tiffanie Gray's avatar

Thanks! He loves it most of the time. Way less stress.

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Dawn Turner's avatar

I SO know that look, Sarah. I'm pretty sure I've used one just like it. Regularly. LOL

Seriously, though, sort of, my husband has had some funny experiences using generative AI for doing diagrams/images for some basic stuff (not monetary). One instance, he asked for a diagram of the brain, which it dutifully gave him. He then asked it to highlight and label the amygdala. It couldn't get that right to save anyone's life, no matter how many times he tried. LOL

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

Yep. And I don't personally even care about that. I'm just dead-set against plagiarism, which I personally define as putting your name on someone else's work, whether cover art or writing, and especially fiction. My two cents. Others can do as they like per their own personal code (or not) of ethics.

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Dawn Turner's avatar

I'm in the same camp as you. I have to live with myself, and putting my name on a creative work someone else did, even if it's a computer, would make it hard to live with myself. LOL

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

Yup.

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Vincent Zandri, Noir Author's avatar

I use chat or grok for keywords

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