All these people excited about how #ChatGPT can write correct and to some extent consistent fiction, and I'm just thinking "yeah but wow this is bland and cliched, I would never spend money or time to read this stuff."
Are there genres in which the most likely and obvious thing is what draws readers? I feel like even readers of things like "cozies" want a little novelty.
@ceoln it's like fame schools. Bland bland bland. Tbh a lot of ai art is very bland but it depends whose doing it ;)
@penworks
Yep! I'm having great fun trying to get Midjourney to surprise me (with some success); the text LLMs (even NovelAI without censorship) seems not as good at it.
I've been wondering for awhile whether a diffusion-based text generator might be more interesting than these token-autoregressive ones. I think there are a few out there, but they haven't made headlines.
@penworks
This is a possibly-interesting paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08933
The abstract says inter alia "an intriguing property of DiffuSeq is its high diversity during generation, which is desired in many Seq2Seq tasks".
@ceoln that sounds like something I'd be interested in. Consumer content not just AI is based on a kind of homogenised genrefication so that recommender systems appear to be good but in fact everything is pushed through very narrow channels.