I am honestly surprised that no big author has been caught using LLMs to write their books.

[packetcat@tenforward.social]

I am honestly surprised that no big author has been caught using LLMs to write their books. Sure small indie authors have been caught using LLMs because they left the prompt they used in the text but no one big.

Earlier in the year there were allegations going around that Silver Elite by Dani Francis was written largely in part using LLM generated text but as far as I know there wasn't any actual evidence that was the case.

folks were suspicious that this book and author came out of nowhere, the author is clearly using a pseudonym (which in itself is not unusual but..) and nobody knows who the actual author is and what they look like etc.

and also the book's content itself is very derivative dystopia + romance slop.

Occam's razor - It is probably just a mid book with a author who wants to stay private.

[packetcat@tenforward.social]

LB: https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

since it is basically impossible at this point to detect LLM generated text with any degree of accuracy I have two concurrent fears:

- unbeknownst to me some new mid book I've read recently contains LLM generated text

- a author who has a writing style similar to how a LLM like ChatGPT writes is going to be unfairly and unjustly called out for using LLMs in their writing

[packetcat@tenforward.social]

For a long time I was very self conscious about how my writing was cold & unemotional, I thought I wrote like a machine. In fact a former employer told me something to that very effect once which didn't help matters either.

Part of this was that I had trouble expressing genuine emotion outside of writing which then also manifested into writing very unemotionally. Yay for mental repression.

Part of this also was an artifact of the way I learned English. I didn't learn how to properly construct paragraphs and paragraphs into essays until I took English as a Second Language classes in high school and for a while after that I wrote in a very rote boring kind of way because that's what I internalized from my schooling.

Over the last decade or so I learned how to actually process my own emotions and I think my writing has improved over the year as I just wrote more and learned how to express emotion in my writing.

[packetcat@tenforward.social]

so to me it is darkly funny that people are now making a machine spit out sentences for them.

[packetcat@tenforward.social]

funny and infuriating to think that people see an em dash in a bit of writing and think it is something an LLM spat out - nah fuck you, I just like em dashes.

Furthermore I like to use words like the first one in this sentence and have been doing so before this bubble existed and will continue to do so after it ends.