Where's this nirvana of AI doing everything for you?
I asked ChatGPT to spell check, edit and format a book I had uploaded ready for publishing and it created an empty document with a couple of headings and no content.
AND I PAID MONEY FOR THIS 🥹
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Fire your AI. Mine is kicking ass
What if simply gave you back the portions of the book it found good enough to publish? 😅
I kid. I kid. 🤣
My grandfather was not very literate, but led a deeply interesting life, especially as we move further away from that time.
His book is technically difficult to read, but deeply fascinating, so I was hoping AI could edit it to keep it's context, but make it more legible without loosing any content.
I was too optimistic, you are probably correct, it included all the legible sections 😂
look up BMAD method.
break up documents into smaller chunks
When I employ anybody or anything to do a job for me, I expect them to work the way I want, not the other way around 😂
Yes, it is currently working, doing it in sections, I am expecting the next section today.
TBH a real editor could work faster. Also my cousin is an editor and she would do it for free!
Okay, yes... humans are better editors for a number of reasons, and frankly I think you're crazy for paying for ChatGPT instead of something like VeniceAI + OpenWebUI.
But, if you want to use the machine, you're going to have to give it bite-sized chunks & high quality instructions. This works because it's suited to the machine's capabilities.
You might find that applying the structure helps your project, too. It's not without a learning curve, neither is it a panacea.
I hope I'm more crazy than you think I am, being normal is not a goal anybody should aspire to 😂
Thanks for the advice, but I'm not trying to achieve the things you think I'm trying to achieve.
And I'm not trying to understand the limits of specialist AI's or less developed systems.
Using my grandfathers unpublished book is an incredibly strong edge case for AI's because no frame work exists for them to reference.
The language is colloquial, regional and mostly extinct.
The time dates before electricity and flight, let alone computers and AI and the book documents things that are not in the public domain.
Understanding how an AI would handle this is deeply fascinating and I am just at the start of this journey.
No, I don't want to adapt to the current modals of AI and no I don't want to find AI that specialises in the domain I am working in. That defeats the purpose, potential and goal of AI.
I have a specific purpose in mind, which I have shared in a very limited and joking way historically here, but I'm not disclosing it fully.
If I ever did want to edit a book, I would certainly use the best tools in the best ways currently available, but as I'm sure you are aware, AI is not the best way to edit any book currently. It still requires human work and effort to create authentic content.
That will change, but not quite yet.
I hope I am crazy, no sane person ever changed the world and I would like to do that a third time before my time is done here.