I have a lot of thoughts about that Daniel Green video where he covers that absolutely shit article by the New York Times about the Romance author turned prompter. His comment section is full of the anti-romance slop I see on a daily basis, but even he, in the video, fell into the trap that Romance is just bland formulaic porn, which, yawn, but the most interesting thing to me about this whole thing is the author just giving up. Quite literally. She just chose to quit playing the game, quit trying to improve, she just chose to quit writing altogether because the industry could not support her at all so now she generates everything. I honestly can’t express how sad that is. I can’t even put into words house sad that is. There is a much larger story here than her just using an LLM, except of course, the New York Times has terrible reporters that don’t know how to ask complex questions so the article reads like a vapid snooze fest. The whole thing just makes me profoundly sad! And I hate this whole thing is just another excuse to shit on romance reader some more. This prompter even said, I don’t need to worry, because in a few years, readers won’t care about what they are reading. I can’t express how profoundly sad this whole thing makes me. It reminds me of that Buttondown article that I can’t locate at the moment, it said something to the effect of, caring about anything today is a radical act. #Romance #AI #LLM #Author #RomanceLandia
