My dear reader, I urge you to consider what the future of work will be like (especially when writers such as myself can create an elaborate facade such as what you're reading now). I tell people that I'm a writer when I'm prompted with the question, "what do you do?" or "what you been up to?" My response is usually that I make a living writing software and (sometimes) words. I rely heavily on OpenAI, Llama, and Copilot to help answer most of my coding problems (it used to be stack overflow two years ago). What I "write" tends to surprise the audience. This is by design. The truth is, I've been using open sourced Large Language Models to train and generate stories a certain type of way depending on the data ingested into the system.
You may think, what kind of data? The caveat happens to be whatever book I'm reading at the time of writing. Whether it's Joan Didion, Fran Lebowitz, Kurt Vonnegut, Dostoyevsky, David Foster Wallace, Bukowski, Hemmingway, Orwell, David Deutsch, Hunter S Thompson, Homer, or Ray Kurzweil, all I have to do is upload the book to a vector database, run a semantic search, and prompt an LLM to mimic the writing based on the literature. I've simulated my life by creating scenarios that people could read (as fictional stories). Most of my writing has been about Toronto, drugs, alcohol, homeless people, AI, and becoming a thief. This is also by design. Even the grammatical errors from previous stories are intentional. My dear reader, I urge you to consider what the future of work will be like (especially when writers such as myself can use AI to generate such content).
Pura Vida
-rushil
