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0 pointsirishcoffee4mo ago0 comments

If Tolkien had not lived an entire life, fought in a war, been buddies with other authors, and also been a decent writer, the story doesn’t exist. And an LLM won’t come up with it.

An LLM isn’t coming up with the eye of Sauron, or the entire backstory of the ring, or gollum, etc etc

The LLM can’t know Tolkien had a whole universe built in his head that he worked for decades to get on to paper.

I’m so tired of this whole “an LLM just does what humans already do!” And then conflating that with “fuck all this LLM slop!”

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mycall4mo ago

In the age of OpenClaw and interest agentic processes, the LLM doesn't need to dream up everything by itself. There are tons of tools it can use. Using those tools, the LLM can generate a random world and write about that, and score it too -- with enough iterations, a best seller could pop out.

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