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How many books can you write per second?

How how many books per second can you read to influence and change your personal style?

I don't think any person who actually has worked on anything creative in their life would compare a personal style to a model that can output in nearly any style at extreme speeds. And even if you're inspired by a specific author, invariably what happens is it becomes mix of yourself + those influences, not a damn near-copy.

With visual mediums it's even worse, because you have to take the time [months, years] to specialize in that specific medium/style.

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> I don't think any person who actually has worked on anything creative in their life would compare a personal style to a model that can output in nearly any style at extreme speeds. And even if you're inspired by a specific author, invariably what happens is it becomes mix of yourself + those influences, not a damn near-copy.

I don't think anyone who has ever read a novel in their life would say that an AI can write literature at all, in any style.

> not a damn near-copy.

The obvious solution is to just treat it as if a human did it. If you did not know the authorship of the output and thought it was a human, would you still consider it copyright infringement? If yes, fair enough. If no, then i think is clearly not a "damn near-copy"

>> How many books can you write per second?

On my laptop, using modern tools backed by AI? ... many.

>> How how many books per second can you read to influence and change your personal style?

Thanks now to AI, hundreds. I can plug the output of the book-reading AI into the input of the tool I use to write my books and thereby update my personal style to incorporate all the latest trends. Blame the idiots who are paying me for my books.

This is clearly a bad-faith response to the point that the GP was making

So, zero. You yourself: zero.

You completely ignored the premise of the question.

You should read the response more carefully. Generative models are just tools. If I use one to write a story it’s no less a story that I wrote than if I’d chiseled it into a Persian mountainside.

It pretty clearly is. Less of a story that is.

Careful, you’re saying the quiet part out loud.

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