Oh, I see your Claude also developed a preachy personality that skims the text instead of doing a full read. Thank you for the article! It's difficult for some to understand AI cannot produce the thoughts and ideas behind one's work, but it will build on them. And why not give the reader the best way to phrase a great idea?
This article is a collection of points with no clear throughway, a bunch of nonsequiturs and false equivalencies, a giant collection of blatant AI tells (such as the rule of threes being splattered consistently throughout), tons of poorly used en/em dashes and arguments that strawman and create fake viewpoints held by AI dislikers. Worst of all? It equates writing and novels to a product. Something to serve to consumers for money in return. The author, which I am assuming was mostly Claude because I'd like to think that you have the ability to actually write halfway decently (although, perhaps not considering you needed this piece of garbage to be made by another piece of garbage), made a hot mess.
The ignorance and vitriol of your reply doesn't motivate me to spend much time on an answer.
I've been writing for twenty years. Sold 200,000 books worldwide. I have used em-dashes and the rules of the three long before LLMs came onto the market. In fact, I have evidence my books were used as training data. The LLMs learned to write from me (and millions of other authors). In other words, no, I didn't lie. I wrote the article. Claude reviewed it.
The profound stupidity of your comment (simply dismissing a text as AI-written because it contains em-dashes) means I care nothing about any of your other judgements.
Finally, there are two kinds of fiction: literary fiction and commercial fiction. Literary fiction counts as art. Commercial fiction counts as a product. Most fiction is commercial. If you don't even understand this simple difference, why would I even take anything you write seriously?
Oh, I see your Claude also developed a preachy personality that skims the text instead of doing a full read. Thank you for the article! It's difficult for some to understand AI cannot produce the thoughts and ideas behind one's work, but it will build on them. And why not give the reader the best way to phrase a great idea?
Interesting piece Jurgen
This article is a collection of points with no clear throughway, a bunch of nonsequiturs and false equivalencies, a giant collection of blatant AI tells (such as the rule of threes being splattered consistently throughout), tons of poorly used en/em dashes and arguments that strawman and create fake viewpoints held by AI dislikers. Worst of all? It equates writing and novels to a product. Something to serve to consumers for money in return. The author, which I am assuming was mostly Claude because I'd like to think that you have the ability to actually write halfway decently (although, perhaps not considering you needed this piece of garbage to be made by another piece of garbage), made a hot mess.
Here's my annotated version where I highlight some claims and their supposed "evidence" for said claims: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OdHVH02xIC4U0MFc58qrCPWWD7BjxFPDeftzj7rYKIo/edit?tab=t.0
Never use AI to write garbage like this again.
The ignorance and vitriol of your reply doesn't motivate me to spend much time on an answer.
I've been writing for twenty years. Sold 200,000 books worldwide. I have used em-dashes and the rules of the three long before LLMs came onto the market. In fact, I have evidence my books were used as training data. The LLMs learned to write from me (and millions of other authors). In other words, no, I didn't lie. I wrote the article. Claude reviewed it.
The profound stupidity of your comment (simply dismissing a text as AI-written because it contains em-dashes) means I care nothing about any of your other judgements.
Finally, there are two kinds of fiction: literary fiction and commercial fiction. Literary fiction counts as art. Commercial fiction counts as a product. Most fiction is commercial. If you don't even understand this simple difference, why would I even take anything you write seriously?