Recent content by Hvast

It was possible for a very long time with deleting and recovering your chapters.

Not wanting to create another thread.... Should anything be done about obvious AI slop factories? I mean, authors who registered a few years ago and who have a dozen+ stories, a million+ words and output generic porn (way easier for AI)

If you think that those chapters are worthy of completion, what stops you from posting the completed version while keeping the originals in the limbo? You can credit the original author for the part that is theirs without destroying anything.

Oh, I don't assume) I was getting a lot of dislikes under any non-con chapter. My shitty writing had nothing to do with it because other chapters weren't dislike-bombed like this. And yeah. It would be a very imperfect evaluation function with a slightly bizarre understanding of good. It would...

It assumes that training and generation methods will remain roughly the same. They evolve. For example: diffusion text generation may be better for fiction than autoregressive text generation. Also, what you describe is the training of base models. It's often called pretraining nowadays. It is...

I almost agree with this approach. Almost. Slop makes this site worse. Harder to navigate. Probably slower and more expensive for Friedman. If someone knows that what they produce is lazy shit, they should not pour it on the public dining table just because it is easy to do and people can...

I am approaching half a million words at chyoa + at least as much in other places... Reaching mediocrity with this amount of written spam is not that much of an achievement :D I have a strong itch to write something serious and high-effort using all accumulated experience. But if it happens...

First. I want to make it clear that I am neither a bully nor a witch-hunter. I don't see AI use as unethical or evil by itself (even if some uses of AI are both, but it is true for any tool) Second. I use LLMs to enhance my writing. I will not go into the detail of how I use it but be assured...

Well, it is a direct, simple, honest question. No, it isn't exactly the problem. Yes, they didn't give consent. Who said that their consent matters? People developed laws that forbid certain uses of creative works without the permission of copyright holders. Not all of them. Artists should...

The usual combination... Ordering a burger/pizza analogy. AI images are made only by writing a prompt and getting output in minutes (I always wonder if it is a deliberate snowman or a genuine misunderstanding of the width of options in AI image creation tools)... Image-to-image with slight...

I wasn't reacting to your comment specifically, more on a combination of Jwtss's post and your response. I find nothing amusing in taking someone's work and removing their watermark. Watermarks are a direct statement. "I don't want to have results of my work used without attribution". "AI is...

No. In my case, it is a debate if using AI is theft or not. I oppose the lie that people who use AI in any way are thieves. My message was about that. I reacted to the blanket labeling of people who use AI as thieves. Accusing someone of theft is not just debating opinion on ethics. It is libel...

You see, what is ethical and what is not ethical is... a matter of opinion. There are many people who sincerely believe that every story written on this site is unethical and immoral. Having an opinion on what is unethical is fine, bullying people because they do what YOU consider unethical IS...

Illegal. Clear violation of intellectual property. But no one objects that AI can be used to infringe copyrights. Tool that is good for creating content will be good for creating illegal content Absolutely legal. Style is not copyrightable and never was. "My style" is simply not intellectual...

If training AI is theft, then any analysis of copyrighted works and writing down the results is theft too. If using an already-trained AI to create new works based on written-down results of analysis of other works is theft, then every artist who analyses existing works, writes down the...