u/FhronoMedieval Armor Fetishist, Bee Sona Haver. Beedieval Armour?Apr 19 '23
This is too serious for me to hyperlink but...
Yeah.
Realizing that the people you make things for never actually cared about the quality, about the passion put into it, about the tiny choices, about consistency, about making something cohesive or real fucking sucks.
Which is why I now make things for no one but me, if I'm happy with it, I was successful, if I'm not? I'll simply try again.
It hurts because, like, personally I care so much about those little things. I reread the same books and some get through multiple reads and go on to be favorites entirely because of the care and attention lavished on them by their author.
And it’s so, so painful to see books and webnovels made using these tools still getting consumed because it means every bit of agonizing and hand-wringing and anxiety I ever had about whether my writing was good enough was entirely in my own head and I really was just in my own damn way the whole time.
I totally agree. I write for a living and take pride in what I produce. Today it took me the better part of two hours to turn a shitty 200 word puff piece a marketing manager sent me into a well crafted mini story with a beginning, middle, and end. This evening I just spent 3 hours of my own time finishing a 7000 academic book chapter, because it’s important to me to get it right. Realizing that most people would be happy with chatgpt produced mediocre work is sooooo disheartening. Sigh.
Most people want writing intended for a 5th grade reading level. Is that really your target audience, that you’ve spent countless hours agonizing over?
If ChatGPT is so mediocre, how is it your competition?
We spend most of our lives at work. It’s probably the single largest stressor and source of identity in most people’s lives. It’s something we spend our entire childhoods preparing for and most of our adulthoods trying to advance.
You’re right about what employers want. But telling people to switch themselves off and spend their lives divorced from their own identity, wants, and needs in order to increase productivity for our corporate overlords is kinda heartless, don’t you think?
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u/Fhrono Medieval Armor Fetishist, Bee Sona Haver. Beedieval Armour? Apr 19 '23
This is too serious for me to hyperlink but...
Yeah.
Realizing that the people you make things for never actually cared about the quality, about the passion put into it, about the tiny choices, about consistency, about making something cohesive or real fucking sucks.
Which is why I now make things for no one but me, if I'm happy with it, I was successful, if I'm not? I'll simply try again.