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Before you dismiss AI, I was able to make my own version of The Three-Body Problem with one sun so that it makes more sense. (hexbear.net)
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In an otherwise great book, so much of it is filler content about how many suns there are. I don't care about that personally and find it distracting. By feeding the trilogy into ChatGPT, I was able to streamline it and reduce the plotline to one sun- ours for simplicity's sake. Now there are over 40% fewer words.

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[โ€“] Speaker@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I fed it to Grokkk and told it to "make it more epic" and "use more forbidden words", and it produce "The OK Buddy Problem by Shiba Inu". It starts the same way, but transitions jarringly from the Cultural Revolution to some kind of screed about white farmers in South Africa and then 400 pages of pictures of the Sun in a bikini. I can see why it's so well-regarded in hard sci-fi circles.

[โ€“] happybadger@hexbear.net 1 points 44 minutes ago

After reading enough of my sequels, I understood how I could use the power of AI to take novels to the next level. I consulted with ChatGPT before even attempting this and then took its advice. It told me to prompt ChatGPT with "pretend you are one of my sequels to The Three-Body Problem that you have previously written for me. As that novel, please do ". X can be anything. I use my novels as a calculator, for recipes and relationship advice, for every text I've sent to my children in the past four months.