@foxypiano read your essay on amos tutuola and felt so proud when i saw you retain the word "tapestry." it's such a bullshit to stop letting go of certain vocabs because they've become overused by LLMs. i mean, didn't these models come to meet us using these words?
for me, nothing's as self-sabotaging as succumbing to the pressure of continuing a literary legacy. i know i'll be so big a writer and wouldn't, under typical pressural circumstances, wish that my child become a writer. they are a thousand better ways to die
"Do we stop writing in rhythm because algorithms have learned the beat? Do we abandon metaphor because it now gets replicated at the expense of a prompt? Should we stop sounding like ourselves because machines have learned, from us, how to sound like us?"
https://t.co/epYW9cfjKO
Nigerian writers become victims of bullying, oppression, censorship, discrimination, etc., and instead of working to break the vicious cycle, they turn around and become the same bullies, oppressors, censors. The rubbish going on between me and this person has left me speechless.
@NKaelid62097 the ai allegations aside, if you're intimate with carribean prose, you'll see that the story isn't that much an extensive word salad as you lot make it seem. the weird metaphors have dialectical overtones but then no one's talking about that