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by Filligree 2052 days ago
Having spent the last two months writing a novel, with GPT-3's help, I take issue with the claim that it's useless.

It's anything but useless. Sure, I do 80-85% of the work, but that remaining 15% is the portion that would otherwise have me stuck for days. In practice, it's a 10-50x improvement in writing speed.

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Can you elaborate on how you use it? Do you have it generate next paragraphs when you're stuck, or something else?
I've elaborated significantly here: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/generic-pawn-t...

If that doesn't answer your questions, feel free to ask some in the thread. I don't check comment replies here very often.

(Note: The first ten-or-so updates were purely educational, and it's only the last few where I've been trying for high quality text. If you just want to see how well that can work, then start at the end.)

What's your process for using GPT-3 to aid your writing?
See sibling comment.