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I've been using GPT-3 recently to give me ideas for my nanowrimo novel. I'll just paste in the last couple of paragraphs that I wrote and see what it thinks I should write next. Most of the time, the responses are pretty silly (it gets into loops a lot or doesn't know where to take the story) but a couple of times I've gotten some really good lines out of it.

It kinda feels like copilot, but for writing!

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Have you seen NovelAI? That's kinda their whole thing is a copilot when writing stories. I don't know the tech they use but it could just be GPT-3 in the backend.

They use a combination of GPT-neo models from Eleuther and Facebook's Fairseq models -- the special sauce for NAI is their fine-tunes on those models though. They have a free trial so I'd recommend checking it out if anyone wants to play with it.

> It kinda feels like copilot, but for writing!

But how if "most of the time, the responses are pretty silly"?

Same thing with Copilot - most of the time, Copilot tells me what I already know (not in a bad way - kind of like how a pair coder would just nod their head as I'm typing), but every now and then it gives me something really surprisingly good.

I like copilot mostly for helping with forgotten function names or if I know what I want to do but my brain is running on empty it can give be a scaffold in a new class that I can mold into something better.

Definitely helps with boilerplate.

It's probably best to think of it as a muse. You still have to do the work, but it can help illuminate blind spots and find novel ideas.

The problem is that it's so damn blunt. It just gets to the point, where a human writer would usually be more subtle and slow-paced.

I've always been in love with models.

But seriously between this, stable diffusion, and co-pilot.. what a time to be alive! I hope this takes the sting off of all those folks laid off. Just think of all the projects that can be accelerated with these tools. Personally I've got co-pilot helping me build an application using GPT3 summarizations and I'm working on a board game with stable diffusion supplying the artwork. If only Nvidia would hurry up and make an affordable consumer 48gb ram 4090 ti...

I completely agree. Have you tried out the new Midjourney v4? It's completely blown my mind when it comes to game art generation. MJ v4 is to Stable Diffusion as Stable Diffusion is to me drawing art by hand :)

No I hadn't. Thanks I'll check it out! Of course the open source nature of SD is really nice as the community[0] keep pumping out usability improvements and features.. like the Pokemon trained model[1] which is an absolute blast for my kid!

[0]: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI

[1]: https://huggingface.co/justinpinkney/pokemon-stable-diffusio...

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