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I don't get why people think they can have a career as a LLM middleman.
If I wanted to read a book written by a plagiarism machine about a subject I want, I'll just ask it myself.
I don't need someone else to ask it to write a book.
Same for LLM movies, or music.
If Hollywood thinks it can fire all the creatives and just spam out LLM generated content, well, so can the audience...
The problem is getting an LLM to do anything is a tediously annoying slog if you want it to do anything substantial.
It would almost be as much work as writing a good chunk of a book as it would to use an LLM to do it.
You would basically be playing editor to a functionally middle school fanfic writer. Its worse then just reading human or ai slop in the first place. Lol
It's like anything. I can cook my own food. That doesn't mean I don't go out to restaurants sometimes. I could use an LLM myself to write a novel. But it wouldn't be the same novel. And there is some skill in prompt writing. Even then, just the sheer time to generate a novel-length coherent work from small snippets of chat windows is still a large investment of time.