inecas , vor einem Monat

@foone sounds like the Tom Riddle’s diary

theVedek , vor einem Monat

@foone
The peng!-collective has done just that on last year's Frankfurt book fair. Though, not as "the real thing", but as a prank. And apparently they scored a lot of companies who were really interested in the promised technology.

Sorry the link is in german (didn't find any english links for "amazing books")

https://pen.gg/de/campaign/amazingbooks/

Kavus , vor einem Monat

@foone
My friend and I think this is a good idea! In a dada-esque sort of way.

RealGene , vor einem Monat

@foone
Try it with William Gibson's Agrippa.

michael_w_busch , vor einem Monat

@foone @vaurora I seem to recall an Asimov short story on that theme; but with autocomplete - because of when Asimov was writing it.

kellogh , vor einem Monat

@foone this seems spiritually similar to releasing a story as a video game. lemme think…

fine tune a model to act kinda like a dungeons and dragons dragon master. apply control vectors so it’s nearly impossible to have it act out of character. integrate it into a game, such that the LLM can issue commands and participate. prompt it with a storyline and let it go. have game mechanics (e.g. dice rolls + cards) determine the actual flow

shanecelis , vor einem Monat

@foone This might be fun with some of the classics.

Query Me, Ishmael

Maman Died, Ask Me When

caycedo , vor einem Monat

@foone I like that scenario and I agree on the premise and development. How can someone know the original text actual LLM models are based on?

freequaybuoy , vor einem Monat

@foone Honestly, with my novel's notes now at some 4.5 million chars (a Google doc's limit is 1.5 million) this is kinda tempting.

fogti , vor einem Monat

@foone worst telephone game I heard of yet.

llewelly , vor einem Monat

@foone some terrible day, someone at google will find this post and think it's their next great idea.

IntentionallyBLANK , vor einem Monat

@foone
I could see how it could be an interesting method for storytelling. For example, if you wrote the individual pieces of the story in-depth and fed it through as a highly specialized AI, it might be fun.

If done poorly, which is, let's be honest, more likely, well ew, gross. No.

annika , vor einem Monat

@foone Is that more or less cursed than asking Martin Shkreli to sing Wu-Tang Clan's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin?"

fishidwardrobe , vor einem Monat

@foone my grandmother used to get me to sleep by reading me the original text

ShinyBlueThing , vor einem Monat

@foone this sounds like a good way to accidentally found several warring cult sects.

foone OP , vor einem Monat

@ShinyBlueThing as a pope, that's always my goal

stefanreinauer , vor einem Monat

@foone plot twist: the publisher does so without telling the author and turns down the book deal.

vadhakara , vor einem Monat

@foone Call it "tl;dr"

jhilden , vor einem Monat

@foone Kind of what they did with RACTER (the program which supposedly wrote ”the Policeman’s beard is half constructed”, although I guess the ”novel” is assumed to have involved some heavy human editing)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter

ids1024 , vor einem Monat

@foone You can also imagine this inadvertently becoming the only record of some work, in some distant future.

Alien archaeologists: "Our records show that in the late days of human civilization, before the Antimatter Wars of the 2050s, the works of a bard named "Tolkien" were popular. But after the war Great Copyright Enforcement Purge of the libraries, and the war, all we have are excerpts, ritualistic graphics called 'memes' and one language model that produces in-universe erotic literature."

glyph , vor einem Monat

@foone I seem to remember a performance-art bit in the floppy disk era which was a single-user experience (a hypertext book, IIRC) that deleted itself after viewing, and was never put online. This reminded me of it but I cannot remember what it was called. Fitting, perhaps.

lorddimwit , vor einem Monat

@foone

This is how religions start.

ch0ccyra1n , vor einem Monat

@foone that does sound like an interesting avant-garde art project

artandtechnic , vor einem Monat

@foone This is a pretty solid idea. Very Portal (1986)-esque.