“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

  • shnizmuffinEnglish
    17•17 days ago

    So, I tried using Google Bard Gemini to help write one-line Character Background descriptions for a 5e supplement I’m trying to write. I specifically feed it the longform descriptions and features I’ve already written and ask it to summarize. The output I get is so foreign and detached from my “voice,” it’s totally unusable.

    Even when giving it more than you want to get out, it can’t produce acceptable results. I can only imagine the drek this lady is being inundated with, and it makes me sad.

    The only success I’ve had so far is telling it, “pluralize X in this paragraph,” in places where I wrote something like, “A Painter paints for a living,” and want it to be, “Painters paint for a living.” (I’m pretty sure Microsoft Word could do this shit in the 90s.)