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by KittenInABox 978 days ago
I actually heavily disagree with this. Most AI has one specific depiction of a thing and really struggles to get away from that specificity, which honestly is something I consider to be a fundamental failing of ML modeling currently.

For example: trying to get chatgpt to write about psychotic post-partum symptoms, getting stable diffusion to produce a realistic looking woman above the age of 50, or writing an immigration narrative that isn't "home country bad, new country better".

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> "home country bad, new country better".

I think the deeper problem is that it only writes happy endings.

A while back someone pointed out that Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and Winnie the Pooh had all become public domain characters on the same day, so I tried asking it for a story that combined them — it read like I expected it to (a terrible premise written with middling skill), but it also insisted on wrapping everything up with a twee "and then all three of them went on more jolly adventures" kind of ending.

Likewise the time I asked it for one about alien invaders, where it wrote them turning (without good reason) from villains into friends at the end.

I've found that problem is pretty easy to counter with a bit of extra prompting.

"Give it a surprising, dark ending" or "add a twist".

The majority of stories people tell have happy endings, so it's not surprising that it defaults to those twee resolutions.