Maybe they are intelligent after all

"She seemed disappointed to learn there were sequels" got me, lol

Wtf, I love AI now!
Though not quite in the same way as OOP.
Me when I finished Three Body Problem (I hated it).
- Yeah, I was interested at the start and then it started, and continued, to go downhill for me. I kept going in spite of growing concern because I hoped they'd tie it up well in the end, but no. It may partially be cultural and I can also see some argument for artistic tragedy, but it just didn't work for me.
- Same here. I feel like an outlier!
- Wow guess I'm the outlier? I couldn't put 3BP down, and then I got to the Dark Forest and loved it even more.
  Deaths End fell apart terribly though.
  It's not that I liked how he wrote, I'm not sure if it was the translation that caused this, but he did not seem like a good writer at all. But I was very intrigued by his plot and ideas.
- It's very poorly written.
- History stuff : interesting but unnecessary violent (for me)
  The rest: gibberish
- Uh oh. I've had it (the first one) sitting on my shelf for a few weeks but need to finish my current series first.
- I’ve tried like 6 times to keep slogging through. I was convinced it would be great if I just got to the point where it started being great. Now I feel validated.
- You finished it?!?

This person has a very interesting relationship with their rep. I've never even met my congressmen personally.

Met mine once in Iraq. He gave us all medals that he was unauthorized to give, and the state Congress decided we shouldn't get them so, I have a memento of government stupidity in the form of something I'm unauthorized to wear.
- Sounds about right. Bet those Raytheon checks were authorized to cash, though.
- Laundered valor.
I almost wish my rep was AI tbh. Might be less shitty.
- Sounds like you are also from the south.

You reckon they used AI for assistance while writing too?

100%

“While she was reading it”? Like, as if it takes a computer long enough to read something that it will stop for a break and comment to others?

These people are weird.

i'm assuming there's some character limit on that AI chat and the guy had to copy pase in parts

A lot of writers just write for themselves, and don't really think or care about what other people might think when they read it. That's perfectly fine, by the way. Writing can be a worthwhile effort even if nobody ever reads it.

But if you want other people to enjoy it, then you have to keep them in mind. And honestly, this sort of feedback should be invaluable to authors, assuming it's not an AI hallucination.

LLMs are pretty shit at analysis, so the odds of this just being bullshit are high.
- Yeah, I was surprised when they said it could summarize the plot and talk about the characters. To my knowledge, LLMs only memory is in how long their prompt is, so it shouldn't be able to analyze an entire novel. I'm guessing if an LLM could do something like this, it would only be because the plot was already summarized at the end of the novel.
"She listed three characters"
AI does everything in threes. Likely it just decided to not like three characters not because three characters were bad but because it always does three bullets.
- It didn't "decide" to "not like" anything. It can't do either.
assuming it’s not an AI hallucination.
All output from an LLM is a "hallucination". That's the core function of the algorithm.
- I was a computer scientist at a time when early generative AI work refered to output as the model "dreaming". Makes it sound kind of sweet. It was viewed as kind of kooky to run pattern recognition models forward...

lol they can’t even enthuse an AI