Side Story Poll - March 2023!
I’m not late. I’m just…okay, I forgot the poll, and I was working on Volume 1. So here’s a flash-poll for probably Tuesday’s chapter? I dunno, we’ll see.
I’m tossing in some weird options here because…I want to offer them. Ask for the $10+ spoilers for context or just guess.
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Give us Airships!!!
TTRPG is cool and sounds fun, but...I want more story 😂
What can I/we do to get the TTRPG on top somehow! It needs to happen!
I would love an exploring a nation chapter if it's drath. I read a lot of Chinese novels (wuxia+ xianxia) and would like more cultivators in the story.
CHAPTGPT, would you summarize chapter 9.34 for me please? Sure, I can give you a brief summary of "The Wandering Inn" web serial, chapter 9.34. In this chapter, Erin, the main character, is trying to deal with the aftermath of the battle that took place in the previous chapter. She is injured and in pain, but she's also worried about the people who were hurt or killed during the fighting. She goes to the local doctor, Octavia, for help, but Octavia is unable to do much for her injuries. Erin then decides to rest and recover in her inn, but she's soon interrupted by an unexpected guest. The guest turns out to be Magnolia Reinhart, a powerful and influential noblewoman who has been mentioned before in the story. Magnolia is accompanied by her butler, Maviola, and she is seeking Erin's help with a problem she is facing. Magnolia explains that her lands are being threatened by an army of monsters and undead creatures, and she needs Erin's unique skills and abilities to help her deal with the situation. Erin is initially reluctant to get involved, but she eventually agrees to help, seeing an opportunity to expand her own skills and knowledge. The rest of the chapter follows Erin and Magnolia as they plan their next move and prepare to face the enemy army. Erin also spends some time reflecting on her own abilities and the role she wants to play in the world of the story. The chapter ends with Erin and Magnolia setting off to face the army and the promise of a dangerous and uncertain adventure ahead. I hope this summary helps! Let me know if you have any further questions.
In case anybody sees this post without my prior one - chatGPT is mostly making the summary up, rather than providing an actual summary.
I'm told AI writing just uses standard tropes. I asked chatGPT to summarize the last Erin chapter, and it made up a story instead saying that Magnolia came to see Erin about a monster problem, and then they left together to fight the monsters.
Please no GPT (ever)
Very interesting options. It was a difficult choice.
Depends on the AI. Check out GothamChess. ChatApt (a chatAI) failed to understand the basics of chess…
If you use ChatGPT as is I think the story you get might be too generic. The AI option might be more interesting if you got a specialist to train a model (like GPT-3) on all of your previous TWI writing, specifically. There are quite a lot of words in your corpus to train with so you might get something surprisingly coherent or at least hilarious. But...my vote is for the uplifting invention I've apparently been waiting for :).
The AI option has a really amazing John Henry vibe to it.
AI option is a red herring. Everyone knows Pirate is already a sapient experimental AI from the future.
AI wouldn't be that effective. Half of the stuff you input needs to be very precise and the other half is the level of quality the AI is... which ends up being more of a hassle than a boon since some AI are limited by budget and others by word count.
It would probably be pretty expensive to get ai to output as much as Pirateaba does. But I’d give the pass.
The AI one has me wondering about the future. I would not begrudge pirate using AI tools.. maybe. Man. Such a hard question to answer. A big part of me wants pirate to get more free time, but it also kind of cheapens all the effort they've put in so far. There's something about TWI's word count being the efforts of a single author vs an AI assisted author. But I don't know if that prestige is worth the effort if the output is indistinguishable or potentially better (maybe ten years from now)? Would be interesting to see the comparison though. Would pirate get a pass if they built their own AI programmed on their own work? I feel like that might get you a pass.
It doesn't matter because it won't be Pirate. Pirates specific broken quirks are what makes the writing click with you. An algorithm can copy and then mech the writings of hundreds of thousands of writers to accomplish something that ma5by looks close to it but it will never be the same. Also even Prietae has not written remotely enough text to train an algorithm on it.
Thinking on it, the only superhero web novel I've read is Worm. I think it was brutal enough to scratch that itch for the rest of my life.
It would be tremendously tragic to read an AI version of TWI, like replacing a work by Socrates with one made by someone high on Weed.
TTRPG Setting? Exciting!!! Vote for that
pirateaba competes with an AI to write? This could be really scarey, what if the AI is better?
Superheroes are kinda super over done. I'd need to hear more about the premise to see if I'd care
AI reads 10 million words. Lets make the rovot overlords work for this. Its asking pirate to write a pure twi experience distilled against a pure distillation of twi. Come on folks! What if chat gp ends up writing matibg rituals 4?
I really want to know what an AI trained on TWI only would spit out with random story prompts, there could be fan prompt submissions and we vote on which to use
I wanna see what chatGPT will give us but Man I want an invention story
Superhero story...take that you worm
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