Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: ChatGPT and what it knows/doesn't know

[mildred_of_midgard]

Loooool I betaed that fic, once :D

You wrote 10% of that fic, once!

Heh, the timing is not coincidental... ChatGPT just came out last week and has sort of exploded onto the AI scene.

Interesting! I know I've seen chatter at work recently about AI writing code, but, like, a couple months ago, not last week.

I don't really know what the right way to teach literature is, but I've said for years that the main useful adult skill I learned from my non-technical classes in college was the ability to argue convincingly in writing that I knew what I was talking about when I didn't really and possibly hadn't done the reading either.

And that may indeed be a very useful skill, but the one thing it's not is literature!