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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Define “good at writing”.

I don't want to.

Good comedy is very difficult to attain and none of the models are anywhere near it, including the more recent ones.

I concur.

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

a true conversationalist lmao you're doing great buddy

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh, you were looking for the lmao conversations room? you missed the turn: it’s the last door inside clown school. you’re not even in the right building atm!

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

hey you're the creepy guy who reads comment history before replying to a conversation aren't you ?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought the point of posting your ideas on a public forum was to have people read them.

[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

nah, there’s nothing creepier than giving some shithead the common courtesy of checking their post history to see if they’re somehow like this all the time or if they’re just having a particularly bad night

gonna be honest, I didn’t give this one that common courtesy cause once they get to the stage where they creepjacket other posters for looking at their previous terrible posts, whatever Reddit has done to their brain is severe and irreversible

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

it's always the ones with a veritable comet tail of receipts

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

the esteemed poster huffed and puffed at least twice more on their local, which we blessedly don't have to see

such a hilariously pathetic bit of darvo, too. fuckin dipshits.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

I didn't even press Next Page! dire

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this isn't Oprah Ft Holographic Dr Phil, stop projecting

I merely looked after you went 3 for 3 on idiotic posts

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh yeah silly me. That's definitely not creepy 👍

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

you can’t even sign off on your shitty posts to the degree that you’re now pretending it’s creepy to click a link and take a 5 minute scroll through your bullshit

it’s time for you and your shitty posts to leave

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

Dunno what you want me to say. Define the vague concept of "good writing"?

The linked study finds that ChatGPT 3.5 and Bard suck at writing comedy. You claim in so many words that this should be obvious (along with a really dubious claim that machines can't tickle people for some reason). I'm also not surprised that these models are terrible at writing comedy, because even at best of times I find their output bland, trite and crudely stripped of anything potentially divisive.

However, lots of people seem to think that LLMs are good at writing related tasks, so I don't think it's inherently obvious that these tools suck at writing comedy in particular.

All these words make this reply much less fun to write.