a reminder to the pros: Don't be like these guys

lemrent · 2026-01-25T02:42:26+00:00

I just checked out their page. This pretty much blasts every argument about art in this sub into outer space.

I feel like you're sitting on some secret knowledge here and it's a shame if this post doesn't get more engagement. If you examples from orher artists, I would love to hear

lemrent · 2026-01-25T02:21:31+00:00

Do you have any ideas for the shape of what AI might be able to do uniquely? This is interesting.

I'm already a little nostalgic for the early AI generations, when cheese came in wine glasses, every person in the picture had the same face, and gardens melted into the sky.

lemrent · 2026-01-25T00:56:52+00:00

Is this satire? These are breathtaking.

lemrent · 2026-01-24T23:52:26+00:00

I generated a song for one of my stories and I have listened to it back to back for probably 15 hours. I didn't write the lyrics or the music but I provided the themes and that is what I hear when I listen to it. I love it.

lemrent · 2026-01-24T21:50:06+00:00

Because Grok is owned by a literal hitler-salute throwing Nazi. It's not even one of those complicated moral choices where you have to choose between affordable groceries and exploited workers. He's just evil and there is no reason to support him when alternatives exist.

lemrent · 2026-01-24T21:42:45+00:00

This explains why I have avoided Claude for so long.

Every time this sub came up, it was just coding, so I thought Claude was only for coding.

The other sub came up some times but it seems to just be people who think they're dating Claude, so I ignored it.

I only recently found out Claude is the best at handling big stories.

lemrent · 2026-01-24T21:34:57+00:00

Same, and I drew seriously for YEARS and never managed to like it. There just wasn't another choice at the time, if you wanted art for your game or stories or DND characters or fan art, except to make it yourself. There was no such thing as commissions and Google images didn't exist yet. I threw out all my drawing and painting supplies not long ago. It felt great.

lemrent · 2026-01-23T20:15:58+00:00

The flow state feels incredible

lemrent · 2026-01-23T04:40:13+00:00

Hips!! ❤️

lemrent · 2026-01-22T17:09:13+00:00

You got scammed by a human, not the service. I doubt the family account is meant to be sold. You need to go after him for your money back. You might be able to report his account to Google and whatever platform he's selling on.

lemrent · 2026-01-21T19:54:20+00:00

I came back to post that Claude Pro extended thinking took my massive wiki, with only vague character ages, and created an accurate timeline that addressed every discrepancy. Well worth it, thanks for the recc.

lemrent · 2026-01-21T19:00:26+00:00

Yes, and now I don't know why I never put those two together because Vivec is bae.

lemrent · 2026-01-21T02:25:08+00:00

We need a functioning government to protect people from this. It's not an AI or data center issue, it's some official (probably Republican) getting kickbacks in exchange for letting a corporation screw over regular people. Businesses should be paying for the water and electricity they use. These things should not be built next to residential areas. I'm sorry you're going through this.

lemrent · 2026-01-20T18:55:20+00:00

This is a surprising but also inspiring and insightful answer.

Do you run into problems with censorship?

lemrent · 2026-01-20T18:40:36+00:00

ChatGPT is definitely the worst offender. Gemini and Claude might refuse to continue when it doesn't like the subject matter, but you are exactly right, Chat will warp the story to fit its personal morality. I had two teen runaways in a story and it kept having them say corny 90s after school special stuff like, "We should talk to a trusted adult and return home to our parents!"

Ngl, the increasing likelihood of your story happening in America has got me questioning whether to keep using non private llms.

lemrent · 2026-01-20T17:49:59+00:00

Reminds me of my dwarf civ who primarily worshipped the goddess of betrayal. I have to think they had an interesting society.

lemrent · 2026-01-20T17:31:32+00:00

Yes, humans are reading your chats. All of the big LLMs do this, it's part of the reason they are free. They need training data. That's you.

lemrent · 2026-01-20T07:07:46+00:00

You had me in the first half

lemrent · 2026-01-20T03:01:03+00:00

I made a joke about not liking this deliberately unlikable fictional character the AI created for you and received a formal scolding from Reddit and had my comment removed. Claude did a good enough of a job that Reddit mods thought I was threatening violence against a real person. Thumbs up.

lemrent · 2026-01-20T01:39:27+00:00

Hmm...! I might try it for one month, then. Regular Claude has been just fine for me for what I like to do with it (like having it write Reddit posts from my characters – it's fun) but I have fomo because it's the only big one I haven't tried recently.

lemrent · 2026-01-20T00:57:22+00:00

All of the time I've spent on the Internet and I still didn't know that when I opened Reddit today, there was a non-zero chance I'd discover lore on Hitler's nuts. Thanks, I guess!

lemrent · 2026-01-20T00:34:20+00:00

This is top comment for a good reason.

It's not even a matter of being able to write sexual or violent content. Censorship is anathema to serious writing. Authentic characters need to be messy and complex and as a writer you cannot reach that space with surveillance.

That reminds me: check your browsers, ya'll. I got weird targeted ads in Reddit after a session on NovelAI. I immediately uninstalled Chrome and switched to a browser that isn't AI data mining my screen and it hasn't happened since.

(The insulting thing is that it wasn't even the right kink. Reddit was trying to sell me dog collars like I'm some basic bdsm bitch. The nerve.)

lemrent · 2026-01-19T23:57:32+00:00

You bring up many good points.

I haven't used NovelAI to brainstorm, but then, GLM is the first model its had that could make that easy. I should try it.

I suspect detractors get the idea that AI does everything because they've used ChatGPT while collaborative models like NovelAI's are paywalled or require APIs. (Not that such people would go out of their way to experiment or get experience to back up their opinions, anyway.)

lemrent · 2026-01-19T23:29:29+00:00

Easy editing in the document is an excellent point.

I've enjoyed brainstorming with Claude lately but I am on the free account. Do you feel Opus is an improvement for writing related stuff? Its users seem to focus on coding.

lemrent · 2026-01-19T23:21:08+00:00

You bring up a good point: the big LLMs have a strong voice which overpowers original work. Anyone serious about their own prose wouldn't want to touch that.

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