They say it can increase your productivity, and hot damn does that man need it. LLMs work best when manipulating input text along with contextual content. That sounds almost exactly like partially-edited manuscript and conceptual thought doodles plus several existing storyline books.
Admit it, if he dies before finishing, and someone publishes the result of such an AI output, you would read it. So he might as well get some AI help to finish it “himself”, sooner, right?
He uses a Word Star word processor.
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.
No, I’m not going to read 1000 pages of slop
Good shitpost lol
Finally lol
Admit it, if he dies before finishing, and someone publishes the result of such an AI output, you would read it.
Why in the fucking world would I? It is 2000% more likely that there are already 50 better versions on AO3, written by humans, than this hypothetical having any value.
50 better versions, 1,000 worse versions, and one version for everyone that isn’t very good but would appeal to them specifically enough that they wouldn’t care.
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.
Someone already did this. It did better following plot than anticipated, but it was bone dry and lifeless as you would expect.
Funny, that’s very interesting.
And hey, it looks like AI might wind up a pretty savvy tool for writers wanting to keep track of their own complex plot maps and character webs, too.
See that’s exactly the kind of housekeeping help that might actually boost GRRM’s personal productivity without compromising his vision. I’ve never had to wrangle thousands of pages of my own narrative but I can imagine it’s inherently really slow.
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.
Unfortunately BrandoSando has already said he wouldn’t do it because their writing styles are too different.
Also the dude has writing plans for the next 30 or so years mapped out.
IIRC, GRRM has also said that he does not want any other author to finish ASOIF posthumously if he dies before completing it
GRRM deserves every insult for being unfocused and putting other work ahead of his task. Sanderson may be the one to finish extending his piles of chapter drafts instead of Claude, but someone is definitely going to pick it up after GRRM posthumously cedes creative control because he can’t be assed to finish it himself.
do you ever just read back the shit you write and wonder how your brain got so fucked?
I love ASOIAF, and honestly think GRRM is one of the (if not the) greatest fantasy writers of all time. He owes us nothing. He has created this fantastic universe, and a fantastic story. If anyone wants him to finish his life’s work, his epos, it’s him.
This kind of mentality that he somehow owes you to finish this story, and isn’t doing it because he “can’t be assed” is just so egocentric I don’t have words to describe it. Yes, I want him to finish it, probably just as much or more than you do. I also recognise that the man owes me nothing at all. He’s already given most of his life to this, and I’m enormously thankful for the universe, stories, and characters he’s already given us.
First off, this was a shitpost that only one person managed to figure out. LLMs are garbage and the whole premise here is fairly ridiculous.
I agree that he owes us nothing. But I’m sure he owes the money people at Bantam or Random House something. Like actually, contractually, owes them. They will complete it posthumously if needed, using his draft material. It’s incumbent on him to finish it while he still has creative control.
I agree that he owes us nothing. But I’m sure he owes the money people at Bantam or Random House something
I remember some Facebook post about Patrick Rothfuss, under which an employee for a publisher or something made a similar statement. They claimed that while he morally owes fans nothing, he contractually owed the publisher a novel, but they genuinely believed he had not actually written anything in several years.
In that case, ok I guess?
To be clear, your post reads like a legitimate question, especially considering the community you’ve posted to. I appreciate a good shitpost, but I tend to interpret questions on asklemmy and nostupidquestions as serious.
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.
Hell no, he shouldn’t use an LLM to finish what is basically his life’s work.
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.
Cocaine
1980’s Stephen King has entered the chat.
Vyvanse or Adderall
They say it can increase your productivity
Who are those idiots?
manipulating input text
AI in general is very good at matching patterns, aka pattern matching. Everything else mostly sucks.
No
We should use an LLM to write an ending to it. Publish a new one every week until he writes it himself.
