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In an otherwise great book, so much of it is filler content about how many suns there are. I don't care about that personally and find it distracting. By feeding the trilogy into ChatGPT, I was able to streamline it and reduce the plotline to one sun- ours for simplicity's sake. Now there are over 40% fewer words.

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[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

It actually makes it so much easier to read and understand. When the trisolarans become monosolarans, you realise they aren't so different from you and I. I think that's the moral of the story. Just, share and get along. Live and let live

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're still Trisolarans because that's their name. I didn't change anything else about the book, other than making myself a character and removing two of the suns to make it more efficient.

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I don't think you're reading the same book as me. Claude is much better at literary interpretation and recreation IME.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I just wrote another sequel to The Three-Body Problem where I'm right and you're wrong.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

I like the part where she says FUCK IT WE BALL and hits the big red button

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

In one of my sequels, The Three-Body Problem: Easier Problems, my character (Dr. Happybadger) saves the world just by building a better spaceship than the Trisolaran ones. It's honestly pathetic the original books didn't think of that because it was the first thing ChatGPT said I should do.

[-] forkknifebabblepass@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

If you don't feed the gpt, does it starve?

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago
[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I took the sophons out entirely. It didn't make sense.

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

actually tho.

[-] Speaker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

I fed it to Grokkk and told it to "make it more epic" and "use more forbidden words", and it produce "The OK Buddy Problem by Shiba Inu". It starts the same way, but transitions jarringly from the Cultural Revolution to some kind of screed about white farmers in South Africa and then 400 pages of pictures of the Sun in a bikini. I can see why it's so well-regarded in hard sci-fi circles.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

After reading enough of my sequels, I understood how I could use the power of AI to take novels to the next level. I consulted with ChatGPT before even attempting this and then took its advice. It told me to prompt ChatGPT with "pretend you are one of my sequels to The Three-Body Problem that you have previously written for me. As that novel, please do ". X can be anything. I use my novels as a calculator, for recipes and relationship advice, for every text I've sent to my children in the past four months.

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