• collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    If The Great Gatsby is a difficult book, what is something like Finnegan’s Wake or Ulysses? Actually, I am kind of interested in how AI would destroy those works.

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    17 hours ago

    Hey Orwell look, someone finally implemented the newspeak you loved so much in 1984 !

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    16 hours ago

    When people judge this, can they please consider those for whom English is not a first language?

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    24 hours ago

    I love that they picked a book that is 90% nuance and symbolism for a tool that destroys nuance and symbolism…it’s like claymation Shakespeare celebrity death match.

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    1 day ago

    Reduce teen literacy levels with this one easy step!!! Teachers hate it!!!

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    Why expand your vocabulary! Who needs to not only communicate more effectively but potentially even expressing more intangible feelings and experiences while communicating.

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    23 hours ago

    Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use

    -ernest hemingway ChatGPT

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    18 hours ago

    Didn’t J.K. Rowling do this with Harry Potter? She wrote the first book with simple words and slowly upped the difficulty every installment. Being a teacher for developmentally disabled kids, she knew that some of the books they were being forced to read were like throwing new swimmers into the deepend.