Twilight's Enigmatic Clarification (AI ≠ LLM GAI) · 5:05pm Jul 15th, 2023
To head off any possible confusion, I've added a clarification to TEEE's story page and a note at the top of the chapter explaining that TEEE was not written using LLM generative AI (the story actually predates this technology by several years).
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The larger story was written entirely by me. The ridiculous mini "story" inside it used the Botnik AI to suggest a pool of potential word choices, one by one. Each word of the mini "story" was individually selected by me in order to make as much sense as possible, which is very little sense. This slow process was necessary because the AI isn't powerful enough to generate text on its own, as it was trained on n-grams from a single short piece of erotica: the story's prequel. This makes the mini "story" simultaneously lurid and completely incomprehensible, while sounding vaguely like the prequel (since every word in the mini "story" appears in the prequel and some of the n-grams are identical), allowing me to carefully squeeze in barely-recognizable references to canon and fanon. That's why it's so damn funny.
Because of this, it does not break Fimfiction's Terms of Service. I didn't plagiarize the responses of a GAI, I plagiarized myself! It was also remarkably challenging to write, and far too ridiculous for me to consider repeating.
For the record, I think it's perfectly fine for people to use LLM GAI to generate ideas that can be turned into stories (provided everything the author uses is completely rewritten by the author), but not to generate passages to be lightly edited and posted on Fimfiction. Anything that would count as plagiarism using an AI's responses counts as plagiarism on Fimfiction, as it should. So I agree with the Terms of Service this time. (I almost always agree with the ToS, to be clear—nearly all of my gripes regard the lack of enforcement against violations in blog posts and comments.)
If I remember correctly, OpenAI published weights for GPT-2 in autumn of 2019
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I think the machine I used was older than this (I used the Botnik AI which was used to write "Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Big Pile of Ash", and the training data for it was only the prequel story I wrote—so words I didn't write in the story weren't even in the language model at all), but GPT-2 wasn't on my radar until 2022.
I miss when AI word generators were silly fun :(
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...and not destroying humanity.
The funny part is there's so much GAI in the wild it's starting to train on its own output, which is beginning to degrade it significantly. It's like an enormous echo chamber circle-jerk! Soon, the pinnacle of art will look like something you photocopied fifty times in a row on an old Xerox. No, wait... on a mimeo.
...and lately I keep thinking The Matrix was right about the late 90's being the pinnacle of human civilization.
AI can help a writer formulate ideas for a story
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Yep! I think I covered that in the last paragraph.
Also, writing Sonic porn with an AI on my phone has taught me that GPT definitely scrapes from AO3 and a lot of young authors there like to put "THE END." at the end of their stories and it keeps trying to do this to me in the middle of the story which is pretty amusing.
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Yeah some of em keep trying to end things. Sudowrite and its Story Engine is one of the better ones I've found. You have to give it story beats and such