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Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

scruss

Re: Love the hypocrisy

Read it again: neither author advocates for machine translation.

“Stross has also found one use of LLMs he thinks is valid: as a device in his work.”

a literary device, as in something Stross came up with to pretend that his current work had been translated from an alien language.

How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC

scruss

BASIC as defined at Dartmouth was always supposed to have matrix operations, but they got lost in Microsoft's implementation. Most users don't know what they are missing