I don't think an LLM is going to help him in untangling the sprawling storyline he's got. Besides I read authors for their vision not some synthesised average of their previous stories.
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Hell no, he shouldn't use an LLM to finish what is basically his life's work.
Admit it, if he dies before finishing, and someone publishes the result of such an AI output, you would read it
I think very few people would agree with this assumption.
You do realise you're talking about a hopeless perfectionist at the top of his craft. For such people, suggesting LLMs is the worst kind of insult.
I'd rather he bequeaths the task to Brandon Sanderson, like a normal person.
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you would read it
I couldn't make it through book 3 of that series. Oh hey, a new character - I wonder if they'll rape/be raped by a close family member or die hideously? Maybe both?
Martin endlessly confuses unrelenting misery for an interesting plot.
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Good shitpost lol
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They say it can increase your productivity
Who are those idiots?
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AI in general is very good at matching patterns, aka pattern matching. Everything else mostly sucks.
Someone already did this. It did better following plot than anticipated, but it was bone dry and lifeless as you would expect.
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No, I'm not going to read 1000 pages of slop
Admit it, if he dies before finishing, and someone publishes the result of such an AI output, you would read it.
No I wouldn't. I liked his early stuff but haven't had any interest in ASOIAF or other infinite series that show no signs of converging.
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Just make it yourself. Give an LLM the previous books via RAG and prompt away for the next book. You’re gonna use a shit ton of tokens though, and it might suck. But might be cool too.
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No fucking way
Admit it, if he dies before finishing, and someone publishes the result of such an AI output, you would read it.
Using a huge plagiarism machine as a shortcut to creativity is a big no-no for me. I would think that any serious author (which I am definitiely not) agrees with me.
IMHO, the book series should have ended after book 3. Books 4 and 5 leave too much hanging, which is even worse as book 4 introduced a whole set of new characters and subplots. Even if he does finish the series, which I doubt, he has lost me as a potential reader.
It's not a productivity problem, it's most likely a creativity problem. LLMs can help with that, yes, but author probably prefers to have original ideas.
...i'll take the HBO ending.
He uses a Word Star word processor.
We should use an LLM to write an ending to it. Publish a new one every week until he writes it himself.
Just accept that he doesn't care and he will never finish it. The dude is a jerk for real.
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It is finished, the issue the ending just pissed some people off.
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This how I can tell you've never actually read any "stories" written by LLMs. It is soulless and full of shitty semantic gravity wells. Like, seriously, go ask your favorite clanker to write you a story. They will make metaphors and similes that are complete nonsense. The story won't have any real continuity. It will confuse characters, places, things in the scene, etc. Even something like Dungeon Crawler Carl with its pulp serial fiction and constantly shifting rules of world is vastly more coherent than LLM slop stories.
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