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V.L. Augustin's avatar

It amazes me that some people think they can submit AI generated stories to publications when they are so unbearably bland. It's not at all arrogant to say that you can do far, far better than that!

By the way, "The Island of Morenu" as a title sounds a bit too similar to the H. G. Wells story "The Island of Doctor Moreau", although the content is entirely different. You might want to tweak the title slightly so it doesn't get mixed up.

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Ryan Bush's avatar

Argh! I knew that title felt familiar for some reason, thanks for pointing it out! I might try to tweak the title before officially publishing/self publishing it.

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Newton Webb's avatar

I'm really looking forward to reading these stories!

I've poked around with AI and it has a LONG way to go before it can replace or even match an authors input. What it is useful for is grammar.

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Newton Webb's avatar

We did an interesting experiment in the Fantasy Writers' UK group once where after reading out our five hundred words, we got ChatGPT to write the next three hundred words.

It was fun, it was interesting, it wasn't usable 😂.

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Ryan Bush's avatar

Ah, I'm sorry I missed the experiment, but I'm not surprised. The AI makes for a fun party trick, but it doesn't seem able to create gripping stories

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Newton Webb's avatar

100%, it also just had no idea how to start with the more literary fiction in the group :'D. It did okay with Charles and I because we write genre fiction.

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