> And ChatGPT delivers, wrapping everything up with a boring bow.
That's about the gist of it. "Serviceable, but not quite up to standard" is the best way to put it.
It's useful to think of these gen-AI writing engines as a tool, but I get the feeling that you're 100% correct in pointing out that the problem is the slop. Something I've seen writers complaining about since early 2024 is that numbers have recently gone way down, and these are writers in fields ranging from professional reviews published in magazines to amateur fanfic posted on AO3. On big news sites where I have access to the back-end tools (like Comics Beat), I've seen this trend in action, and it goes without saying that my own numbers have dramatically fallen as well. It's embarrassing to admit this, but these days I'm lucky to break 10 kudos on a fic for a well-established fandom. There's just too much noise.
The sad thing is that so few professional writers push back against the "content creation" game, I assume because everyone thinks they can win it. But I'm not sure who's actually winning, save for extreme outliers whose primary skill is being online (or being a content creation organization with an actual staff). Idk man. Being a writer has never been easy, but this is really something else entirely.
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That's about the gist of it. "Serviceable, but not quite up to standard" is the best way to put it.
It's useful to think of these gen-AI writing engines as a tool, but I get the feeling that you're 100% correct in pointing out that the problem is the slop. Something I've seen writers complaining about since early 2024 is that numbers have recently gone way down, and these are writers in fields ranging from professional reviews published in magazines to amateur fanfic posted on AO3. On big news sites where I have access to the back-end tools (like Comics Beat), I've seen this trend in action, and it goes without saying that my own numbers have dramatically fallen as well. It's embarrassing to admit this, but these days I'm lucky to break 10 kudos on a fic for a well-established fandom. There's just too much noise.
The sad thing is that so few professional writers push back against the "content creation" game, I assume because everyone thinks they can win it. But I'm not sure who's actually winning, save for extreme outliers whose primary skill is being online (or being a content creation organization with an actual staff). Idk man. Being a writer has never been easy, but this is really something else entirely.