Recent content by Eduardo Ficaria

Gasp! How this could be? A revelation! My heart skipped a beat! Is it you, THE ONE? The unique divine being who knows what is true and good in all human arts? The artkeeper! Gather round people, let's listen to the crumbs of wisdom he deigns to share with us, mere mortals! ... Seriously, that...

Yes, fortunately there are still many options out there that are AI-free. A few months ago, I finally switched from Windows to Linux Mint in part due to this obsession by M$ of pushing AI onto its users. I'll have AI only if I want to have it and can find a real use case for me, not because...

That's absolutely right Karlin ! It was another big influence on the movie, although I think Lucas just reused its plot structure and certain aesthetics from the japanese feudal period. I don't know the opinion of Kurosawa on the movie, but I think many on this forum are aware of how annoyed...

Broadly speaking, and after all that has been said in this thread, it feels to me like we are going through our own version of the "Red flag law" days for AI as it happened with the automobile industry in the past. AI is still very new for the general public and evolving so fast that we're still...

The rules in Amazon KDP are more nuanced than what you describe Mad Swede . Below I copy their current official Content Guidelines about AI content, highlights are mine: Hence, someone using AI as I suggested in my previous post is not in breach of any contract with Amazon. On the contrary...

psychotick , I'm not sure if you have noticed that you have typed a quite contradictory comment. On one hand you claim to use AI for your covers (big no-no for many readers!), but then you go and, "as a writer", reject the technology. Which is it then? On the other hand, I don't know which...

Thanks for your observations Mad Swede . My summaries of those articles were just to give a rough idea of what is explained in them. Yes, I read about the selection processes in the second study and I understood that were limitations in that regard. Very nice of you pointing out the type of...

You are conflating different concepts: one thing is to discuss what is art, and something else entirely is to have an opinion on the final result from any process (artistic or not). Certainly, current AI models are unable to do any art on their own since they don't possess any agency whatsoever...

It doesn't seem to me that Mr Suckerberg really likes to spend those dollars in moderation, Romy ... He is just forced to do so by the law. Let's remember that he is known to prioritize profit even over his users' health and he very gladly would burn all that money in the meta-sloppyfication of...

Hi everyone! I have noticed this discussion titled "the use of AI to sculpt your writing" and I thought it could benefit from having real data about how AI writing is evolving and influencing the publishing industry. I have come across a couple of very recent studies that give us a better...

I've recently stumbled upon an article talking about a little marine worm that happens to have its biological clock synchronized with the moonlight. I thought it would be interesting, even useful, for those mythic scribes that may happen to be writing about creatures that have behaviors related...

Thanks for your offer, Super Fantasy , but I still have to work out the many other details of my setting, like factions, characters and so on. Also, I must warn you that I don't plan to write cyberpunk stories in the usual "neon noir" style that's so much in vogue right now. I'm going to try a...

Yes, and that gives me plenty of room and elements to use when creating stories set in this world building. This (hopefully) reduces the chance of my stories crashing into narrative corners.

That's the plan, Queshire . I'll keep my characters and factions ignorant of many things, my stories "narrow" initially and my readers wondering! I just wanted to share the overall setting here and get some opinions that could help me make improvements, or even give me some new perspective on it.

For extra information, know that I started older threads on the World building forum about variants of this setting or to talk about concepts related to them, and we got a bit of a debate on each thread. About the Pyrocene Age: a previous version of the setting shown in this thread. It shares a...