@mjtsai apple redesigning the forums doesn’t make up for the company - level refusal to engage with devs except in specific ways on specific subjects.
If you aren’t asking the questions they feel like answering on the subjects they feel like talking about, there is zero point in engaging with Apple DTS.
I literally got ghosted by DTS on an Apple bug for an SwiftUI app.
Algorithmic not artificially intelligent, but even the automation might make you feel inadequate. In any case, take a moment to ponder a future with this idea is applied to any labor you might do...
#Writer#story fuel: Think about these two paragraphs, read the article, then write a story. Or read Jean M Auel's The Mammoth Hunters.
Neanderthals disappeared roughly 40,000 years ago. But before they died out, some of them mated with early humans—which is why modern humans of non-African ancestry have between 1 and 4 percent Neanderthal DNA. The reconstruction of Shanidar Z makes it “perhaps easier to see how interbreeding occurred between our species,” says Emma Pomeroy, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Cambridge who helped discover Shanidar Z, in a statement.
“The skulls of Neanderthals and humans look very different,” she says. “Neanderthal skulls have huge brow ridges and lack chins, with a projecting midface that results in more prominent noses. But the recreated face suggests those differences were not so stark in life.”
I made this piece for an contest with the prompt "Electronic Emotions". I thought the result was kind of meh, and only decided to post it because, well, the work was already done, no point in letting it go to waste.
Not only did it win, but did so with one of the highest number of votes ever received. There is a lesson in there I'm still working on learning.
Here's some links to other various thoughts I've had over the years about ways you might actively participate. If you're drawn to any of these, or if you have any other ideas not mentioned, let me know!
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Here's some links to other various thoughts I've had over the years about ways you might actively participate. If you're drawn to any of these, or if you have any other ideas not mentioned, let me know!
Please consider becoming a Patron to help keep the library, cats, and me going. With even just $1/mo and you'll get an immediate gratis download of the most recent anthology and both the next patron-exclusive and anthology albums when they release; plus there's other perks!
Both #ChatGPT and #Gemini have changed recently and I can no longer 'copyedit' my text with them. They both massively rewrite the text, making it far more intense and 'corporate' in an eerie way. My voice is lost and replaced by a hyper PR exec.
I've tried "Copyedit the following text, editing only for grammar and spelling, keeping my vocabulary: <text>" as a prompt but they STILL massacre it.
Looking for #prompt suggestions to "just copyedit damnit"
@scottjenson I always found Gemini over the top. Ask it to cut some text down and it’d turn 500 words into three bullet points written by a marketing exec hopped up on sugar. ChatGPT, meanwhile, would mostly just ‘thesaurus’ everything. I occasionally use them for rapidly iterating corporate work, but I’ve found them useless for editorial and so steer clear, with the exception of proofing. (“Find errors. List only errors.”) ChatGPT is best there, and sometimes finds things I’d miss.