Nefarious Celt
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LLMs are spam generators. That is all. They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent". But really, al
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@cstross@wandering.shop I disagree with you there.
I still believe the perfect use case for AI in content creation is to generate a virtual fan boy to tell an author that they are canonically wrong.
Self hosted self doubt as it were and less public than Usenet.
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@Lassielmr@mastodon.scot @quixoticgeek@social.v.st depends on your definition of decent. Having a family member abandoned by a TfL bus driver because she was in a wheelchair. Thankfully her daughter who had boarded and informed the driver had a mobile phone and they arranged to meet at the next stop.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 25 Nov What are some tips you can share to avoid 'clunky' phrasing? Everybody's suggesting reading your work aloud, but I disagree: prose fiction should not focus on replicating spe
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Nov 25, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I have used text to speech as a useful tool to break out of the author mind and realise what I meant to write was not what I wrote.
A Noob tool to fix noob behaviours.
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Oct 04, 2025
@Devonkiwi@mastodonapp.uk @cstross@wandering.shop as someone who has completed the series. I am envious… But then again I am re reading rhe series and find myself asking myself why I am pay £155 hour for a therapist.
Okay.
I am now that angry old fart in a hat.
GNU(1) STP IFLYM
1] wait until you get to Going Postal (no spoilers so no spoiler space needed)
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