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Originally Posted by edslunch
I’ve asked chatGPT to write song lyrics and am amazed by what it came up with - a real end to end song - even though it was an objectively terrible song.
I’ve tried generating other types of text and it does a credible job, but it’s all soulless. It’s the guy at the party that knows enough about everything to credibly engage in conversation but in reality are just spouting off things they’ve heard. I fear for a future where all written communication is highly polished AI spew.
What are do love on the other hand is getting it to write code. I’m hacking out some analytics in python to analyze songs and improve my mixing. I don’t need to search to find an example of someone using a library for pitch detection, I just ask chatGPT to write my a routine. It comes out fully commented and usually works right off. In my scenario I don’t care if it is perfect code or the latest technique if it gets me there. I’m not sure I would use it for production code or anything critical, but for helper functions it’s great.
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Corporate writing is already soulless. I've played around with this plugging in things like "pipeline leak by river press release" or "aircraft missing in poor weather press release" or "E-coli in lettuce product recall press release" and it fataing nails it. Like, a corporation could just click send and it would be as good as any other press release they've ever issued. That's where this thing is already there. And those are kind of unusual press releases, but there are some annual, quarterly and monthly corporate communications you have to write when you work for a big company in a finance or communications department where you're just kind of fataing around with changing the wording around a bit, but they're really just boiler plate crap that ticks off requirements boxes. That's where this shines
already. If companies aren't already using this as a jumping off point for their communications (memos, press releases, web copy, letters to stakeholders, etc.) then they're fataing up and wasting time. This should be the starting point for everything.
But, yeah, I'm not ready to read a novel generated by this. I did have it write a script for a comedy about "seven middle-aged guys who go for wings at their local pub every week" and it kicked out a sitcom script called "wingin' it" (it even made up the name) and it was an actual workable script. Wasn't very funny, though. I'm sure that'll come.