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by sweezyjeezy 1185 days ago
> The primary problem, which seems common to LLMs asked to do this stuff, is "very high level output" - a content smoothie, with few features that are particularly specific to the prompt. The marketing campaign in the OP is so generic, you can `s/Saturn Parable/Any other educational product` and it's still "fine". Similarly the emails - there are 1 to 2 sentences that are product specific, and a bunch of fluff. If I paid a marketing agency for this, I'd be very disappointed.

a) no-one's telling you to just throw the AI output up on to a website unedited, b) does it not give you at least a bit of pause how quickly this is advancing right now?
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logifail 1185 days ago
> no-one's telling you to just throw the AI output up on to a website unedited

Is there a genuine problem that we're solving here?

"Quickly and cheaply create a large volume of mediocre content" will definitely appeal to certain entrepreneurial types, but were we actually short of mediocre content? What genuine problem are we solving?

Apart from a further lowering of the bar for certain entrepreneurial types to get rich(er) faster, that is.

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SubiculumCode 1185 days ago
quantity has a quality all its own.
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archgrove 1185 days ago
A fair sized pause, sure. But if the argument is “Don’t throw it up unedited”, and what it provides me is bare bones generic/junior stuff, I’m not sure of the huge win at this point in time. The world wasn’t short of “Generic low grade copy” templates before LLMs. It just saves a few steps in the copy/paste.

Of course, GPT5…

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barking_biscuit 1185 days ago
>Of course, GPT5…

I'm not sure GPT5 will feel appreciably different on this type of task necessarily. GPT-4 feels a lot like GPT-3 for a pretty wide variety of things, but it's when you get higher complexity tasks that you start to see differences.

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