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Re:Pseudoprose by wavemode on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:55PM (#38285036)
Am I just reading this blog post completely differently? I don't see anything reductive about it...?

It seems to me like a technique for taking some rough stream of consciousness and have ChatGPT generate a complete, fleshed out document from it. It's more than just "notes", it's a specific format and prompt.

Whether it's of any use to you personally (I don't see myself using it, really) is a separate question. But I also don't quite follow what is offensive about it.

Re:Pseudoprose by gizajob on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @09:44PM (#38285341)
It's like the instructions for using ChatGPT to do the grunt work of constructing text, which not being a fan of prose or well-schooled in prose, the author equates with good prose, not realising that writing good prose, at length, is an art and a craft. Oops too many commas.
Re:Pseudoprose by wavemode on Thursday November 16, 2023 @02:22AM (#38286622)
I guess the part I'm missing, then, is where the author implies that the resulting document is "good prose". One could read such an implication into what's been written here, I suppose. But to me I read more that this technique is just about a producing something useful, not necessarily good (if by "good" we mean "equal in quality to what a skilled writer would have produced after many hours of deep thought").

Not every email we send needs to win a Pulitzer prize, after all.