The AI-Augmented Author. Writing With GPT-3 With Paul Bellow
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
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🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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How can authors use AI writing tools like GPT-3? What's the best way to prompt the models to output usable text? Are there copyright issues with this approach? Author Paul Bellow explains how he is using the tools and how authors need to embrace the possibilities rather than reject them. In the intro, I talk […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 535 of the podcast. And it is Thursday |
| 0:37.2 | 26th of February 2021 as I record this. |
| 0:41.0 | So in today's special Inbetweenisode, I'm talking to Lit RPG author Paul Bellow on how authors |
| 0:47.6 | can use AI writing tools like GPT3. And what is the best way to prompt the models to output usable text, which believe me is a challenge? |
| 0:57.3 | And are there copyright issues with this approach? |
| 1:00.4 | Paul explains how he is using the tools and how we need to embrace the possibilities rather than reject them. |
| 1:07.1 | So that is coming up in the interview and we actually recorded the session a few weeks ago |
| 1:11.7 | before I got access to GPT3 but now I have it. So I have been playing around with it and Paul's |
| 1:17.8 | tips were really useful in creating the right kind of prompts that generated output and I've actually |
| 1:24.0 | been having fun with it. I'm not a gamer, but it is fun like a game, |
| 1:28.0 | and it's a challenge to think up prompts that output useful text. |
| 1:31.9 | I'm not specifically using it for any writing project. |
| 1:35.1 | In fact, I am deliberately avoiding using it for any specific work that I intend to publish |
| 1:41.6 | or submit to competition or any of that. I'm being really careful. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm just playing with it because I still feel like there are some issues that need to be worked out. |
| 1:51.4 | But as I discuss with Paul, it's definitely a tool right now. As in, you don't click a button and outspits a finished article or a chapter or a story, you have to prompt it and |
| 2:03.0 | control it by your own words. And I was thinking, trying to think of a metaphor, because I feel |
| 2:08.8 | like many authors are resisting this because they think it's like click a button and there's a finished |
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