Comment by SLHamlet
9 days ago
Like actual creative person Ted Chiang (who moonlights at Microsoft) put it, you might be able to get an LLM to churn out a genuinely original story, but only after creating an extremely long and detailed prompt for it to work with. But if you even need to write that long-ass prompt, might as well just write the story yourself!
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/09/ted-chiang-ai-new-yorker-c...
> But if you even need to write that long-ass prompt, might as well just write the story yourself!
Nah, that's just restating the infamous 'how to draw an owl' advice:
https://casnocha.com/2010/11/how-to-draw-an-owl.html#comment...
The thing is, that "long-ass prompt" is step 1, and LLM then draws "the rest of the fucking owl" for you. That's quite a big difference to doing it all yourself.