Gregory's ServerFuck, and let me be absolutely clear about this, off
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@jamesthomson @antonyjohnston When I was in a German bar in SF this very drunk woman approached and lamented to the bartender that she wasn't having enough success as an author And I was all set to commiserate with her until she revealed that she had ChatGPT generate a 25-page book about recruiting (She had never worked in recruiting, I later learned) @jamesthomson @antonyjohnston Remember that ‘X’ is an unknown and a ‘spurt’ is a drip under pressure. @antonyjohnston I think they are trying to skip the “writing farm human” step of this old Audible grift. Considering how unprofitable the grift actually is, I wonder if this is just AI scammers taking marks from the “Contrepreneur” scammers. Fuck all of them.  @antonyjohnston Oh wow. This will make it much harder for new authors, because nobody sane will trust it’s not some generated garbage…  @richlv @antonyjohnston Which is why anyone falling for this grift will destroy any chance of being taken seriously as soon as the colleagues they're trying to impress find out. Then they'll have to work twice as hard to be seen as having any expertise at all. Everything they suggest, it'll be "did you read that in your 'book', then?"  @antonyjohnston Sounds a lot like "run the 100m sprint in record time by hiring some bloke off the street to do it for you."    The domain was bought on a coupon through contaya.com, reselling dynadot.com domains. (Yay, whois data.) So... AI grifter is grifting a grift. To the shock of nobody.   @antonyjohnston @antonyjohnston agree, but also, how does it differ from having a ghostwriter write a book for you?  @antonyjohnston The old saying "Isn't saying you flew on a plane like saying you swam in a submarine?" needs an "author" equivalent with LLMs...  @antonyjohnston well, you just have to find a field where the entrance requirements are suitable for a thought leader who can't be bothered to write his own book. Say, AI seems to be a field just craving such thought leaders, come to think of it... |
@antonyjohnston “position yourself as an expert” sure reads like “pretend that you are”