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Tomas Milka's avatar

I do relate to your coffee choice a lot!

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California Travel Writer's avatar

Good morning Alexander,

I've been using Ai for some time now, and if there is one thing I've learned it is this: HOW you ask. You might want to try again, this time specifically giving instructions to not write the review based on other reviews. After all, if you book was still unpublished and had no public reviews, Ai would have to start from scratch.

I've never tried it with anything extensive as a book, but I have certainly plugged in articles now and then and gotten some excellent feedback.

FYI for anyone using Ai for art, which I do a lot, it really matters "how" you ask.

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

For sure, might try that!

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

Fun experiment.

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Hannah Rose Williams's avatar

This is a great idea! Too bad it needs other reviews to exist before it can get started

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

Yup, there is one that you can send your novel to and they come back with analysis, but it didn’t work for me, just didn’t load, because I’m guessing they want me to use the paid version lol.

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Jenni Madden's avatar

Just what I would have said, were I as versed in language and whatnot as a bot. I read it. It was a good book. Now husband Wayne has read the second one in the series and is reading the first, then he'll go ion to the last. Me? I like reading stuff in order. I promise to review on Amazon but I know I will agonize over it more than a bot. Even though bots can express surprise when serving coffee in a story, can they agonize over a book review or is that going to happen in a story only? :)

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

That is so cool thar you are both reading and I wonder how his perspective of the first will change!

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Jenni Madden's avatar

Me too. because I've only read the first! Now I can't wait to finish the second.

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

Let me know!

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Mwila's avatar

I find AI helpful but not with fiction. Perhaps a genre writer writing something with a fixed structure like Harlequin romances can make better use for it. Overall, if you want originality and intelligence AI isn't the place for it.

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Dissembling Bling's avatar

If you asked it to write a scathing review it would have no scraped data to reference, and it would random return aggregates of scathing reviews and insert your title and your novel's characteristics. If you asked it to provide an inscrutable review of your novel written by Bartleby from Melville, you could then ask it to turn it into a scene from Othello. I guess I'm not expecting true information from it, just teasing the ghosts in the machine.

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

Interesting ideas haha

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Paul Caloca's avatar

I don't yet have a body of work for A.I. to review, so I have no test results to report. I enjoyed your quickie story of the robot barrista. It reminded me of the story in Ghost in the Machine where people would have electronic implants to enhance their bodies. You got my imagination churning, thnak you!

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

That’s awesome, also thinking of Ghost in the Shell now

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Jessica Maison's avatar

Fun experiment. I do like the idea of it summarizing all the reviews on a product for me.

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

Its pretty cool!

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A.C. Cargill, All-Human Author's avatar

That's all AI can do -- mash things together. There is no thinking. There is no logic or reason. Thanks for illustrating that so clearly. And when people us AI to generate an image (like the one you use here) and text, that's all the AI is doing -- mashing together what's been fed into it by programmers.

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

Very true

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Ayesha A.'s avatar

I guess it's for anyone who's too lazy to read all of the other reviews. This sort proves how technology is just making us lazier.

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

haha yes

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Lori K's avatar

It was a good review, but I could see how it would take from another. Lol ☕️

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

hahah

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The Way Teller's avatar

Interesting idea and there may yet be a novel (new) response as these LLMs improve. I have no reviews of my work, so I might attempt to write a super prompt for ChatGPT and see if it can manage something…novel. I won’t hold my breath though.

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

Could be interesting

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Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

Cool idea but not surprisingly, AI does a polished paraphrase...

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

haha yes

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Mary Ann Rollano RN's avatar

AI is not artificial intelligence, as claimed but automatic information gathering as you’ve just proven.

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

Yup!

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Lorraine Evanoff's avatar

How cool, Alexander! Did you use ChatGPT? I want to use AI to analyze my new novel for marketing blurbs and tag lines.

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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

I used one called Ask AI, but there is a program, Marlowe is the name I believe, that will analyze the whole novel, I haven’t done that one, but could be good

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Lorraine Evanoff's avatar

Wonderful thank you!

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