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Arnel Šarić Sharan :verified:

I wrote a brief piece on how the Fediverse helped me discover new and unusual concepts that reignited my enthusiasm for writing through tech minimalism.

Kudos to @HailsandAles and @denis; without you, this could happen, but not this fast

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SharanWriting for HumansHow Fediverse made me discover strange new concepts that reignited my excitement for writing through tech minimalism
#TinyWeb#BearBlog#Blogging
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Petra van Cronenburg

🧵 For all who like to see my #scrollBook project in progress, I start a thread for new photos.
The idea: Having art small enough for a handbag or hanged on a wall. 'Writing' a #book that can't get copied by AI or people - but can be inspiring for others.
Materials: A vintage wooden bobbin, tea-dyed coton flannel, #teaBags, #sareeSilk scraps, #lace, #embroidery, glass rocailles.
@embroidery @textilearts @fibrearts

Part of my scrollbook with a needle and yellowish green thread. On a background of bright purple flannel a collage of small white lace, a square of a used teabag and scraps of saree silk. The spuares and rectangles are laid in a collage composition and get fixed with wild, wobbly stitches. One silk scrap in rosé has a beautiful dark lilac and red ornamental print.
#TextileArt#collageArt#fiberarts
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J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

So, I wrote this as the opening part of a short story, but I believe it may resonate with folks who have had to deal with depression.

"Everybody gets sad," they say, "but most people are never depressed."
True depression is not something you can understand if you haven't experienced it. It's not just an emotion; it's your whole body. There is a heaviness to the world around you. Ask a depression sufferer about the weight of being of being conscious, of breathing, walking, eating, going to the bathroom, of thinking about all of it. Ask them about the inertia. You've sat down, now try to get up. You've started walking, now try to turn back. You've started crying, now try to stop. Ask them about the isolation brought by the film that sits between them and the rest of the world, about the bubble they live in where color drains, sound dampens, touch never quite reaches. Ask them how their food tastes. Ask them what they dream about at night. Ask them the hardest question of all: "why are you depressed?"
"If I knew that, I wouldn't be depressed."

#Writer#Writing#WritersOfMastodon
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James Baillie

Anyways, on a more selfish note for today - if you want to do something that I would appreciate for my birthday, the best thing is to read/listen/play through something I made and let me know if you found it interesting or what I could do better or tell other people about it, because I churn out a lot of text and stuff and most of it feels like it drops into the void.

So incoming list of things I did (or at least got released) while being 30:

#CreativeToots#Writer#Poet
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

Arguably big but definitely not a "smart piece"

by Byrne Hobart on writing and blogging and LLMs: thediff.co/archive/ais-impact-

@timbray: Let me deconstruct this. The author's bias (Byrne Hobart's) is for,

"some algorithm guessing the next word based on statistical distributions."

That is the very definition of average and mediocre. Economically, the author argues,

"...printed books had lower production values, because of that marginal cost argument. But there were many more [books common people could read]

... keeping in mind, *written by humans who could afford the costs of learning to write them, writing them, printing them, and distributing them. Of course, progress to electronic media meant,

"What blogging meant was that people could participate in the discourse, in the medium that the most influential people prefer, without any vetting whatsoever."

Emphasis mine. True! Worse,

"Pajama-clad or not, bloggers stuck around, and they forced other news organizations to adapt to their norms."

Exactly.

This, in fact, inevitably draws the reader to the deductive conclusion that—contrary to the author's argument that LLMs are an improvement on human-gen writing—instead genAI is as disruptive to truth-in-journalism (to the extent that a person or displaced journalist could be or want to be unbiased) as is blogging, but on steroids. This is especially true when you factor in the statistics at the bottom of the article:

"We already implicitly opt out of the overwhelming majority of what we could read. And whether we read .01% or .001% of what theoretically interests us doesn't make much of a practical difference."

Why not opt out more by embracing genAI output? Interesting thesis.

The problem here is sorting out the genAI regurgitated hash of trending opinion and alternative facts when such writing is rarely marked as AI generated. Remember,

"Tools like Grammarly take this a bit further, and at this point LLMs make it so that everyone who wants to can write whatever [without learning how or why] [what] they need to in whatever tone they want ... [They] can move [their] writing a little closer to 90th percentile...elevate basically any coherent thought into a message that reads like it was produced by a college-educated professional [but could have been written by a 1st grader who has no idea what they are talking about].

"Eliminating the ability to judge people based on how well they write is a social shift that, at least for the Extremely Online, is an act of linguistic egalitarianism."

I'm all for the best tools, but my hammer doesn't build my house by itself.

In other words, genAI using LLMs devalues educated writing, argument, and rhetoric to something maybe a person can recognize as good, but makes it something not worth learning to do, or monetarily worth investing in. This blithe attitude reminds me of how art is often devalued, especially in schools in favor of STEM and rote learning—displacing critical thinking and learning to be creative.

Sturgeon's Law states,

"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

It's true! The author agrees on that, but if you displace human writing by making it worthless by teaching that genAI use is on par, or better than learning to write, don't you end up multiplying the statistical occurrences the author-cited algorithm chooses from 90% to 99% to 99.99% ad infinitum until we have machines talking to machines? Creativity evaporates. Laziness dominates.

The ability of bad actors to control people through algorithms increases by orders of magnitude when people cease to write by themselves. Free words are too expensive.

#BoostingIsSharing

The Diff · AI's Impact on the Written Word is Vastly OverstatedPlus! VC IPOs; Sovereign Wealth Funds; The Return of Structured Products; LLM Moderation; Risk Management; Diff Jobs
#genAI#LLM#LLMS
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Tombe la pluie - Theespookje

In English just in case: I'm a French polyglot #writer and I'm wishing to create a forum dedicated to sharing our works, progress, wip, inspirations, prompts, finding collaboration... I want to create a bipoc, queer, and disability inclusive community, in #French and maybe #english too that goes beyound hashtags and social media to keep an archive, to generate respectful discussions, social link and have a friendly space. #bookstodon #writingcommunity #writing #poetry #poet #writerscoffeeclub

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