I get all my reading recommendations from ChatGPT
i struck my head with a hunk of metal real hard and now the metal is lodged in my skull/brain and i'm trying to convince others to do the same
>>25622338It's actually really useful for academic reading lists if you're completely new to a field
That's fine if you never want to delve deeper than surface literature. It seems completely incapable or unwilling to recommend anything that isn't mainstream or close enough to that. You'll never find a truly obscure gem of a book with it. I know because I wasted a lot of time trying to get it to dig deeper to find more things to read but it just kept giving me the same shit I've read over and over.
>>25622361>anything that is not an "obscure gem" is "surface literature"
>>25622364Yep. Enjoy you basic bitch algotaste
>>25622368I think the word for you, fallen out of current use (wrongly, with you in mind), is "hipster". The canon is a canon, by and large, per Hume, for a reason.
>>25622361I just asked it to rec obscure gems and it gave me: [Valbert's Teodor de WyzewaÁngel Ganivet's Los trabajos del infatigable creador Pío CidGeorge Gissing's The UnclassedDuan Chengshi's Miscellaneous Morsels from YouyangAl-Hamadhani's MaqāmātAnonymous' The Dispute Between a Man and His Ba]Knock yourself out.
>>25622361If they were good they would be more popular
>>25622338>>25622357i do this too, it's pretty good>>25622361if you ask a REALLY specific question you can get really specific recs, for example:>recommend me a singular book on the turkic khanate of xinjiang, specifically focusing on it's military and political landscape. make it as specific and niche as possible>Documents sur les Tou-Kiue (Turcs) occidentaux (Documents on the Western Turks) by Édouard Chavannes (1903)https://classiques.uqam.ca/classiques/chavannes_edouard/toukiue/toukiue.html
>>25622427just like my marvel movies
>>25622427Only works on books pre-1930, or so. And that their popularity is one that has endured past their time.
Yaaass, go off queen!
chatGPT canon (normalized) Madame Bovary (Flaubert)Gargantua et Pantagruel (Rabelais)À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust)Les Misérables (Hugo)Tartuffe (Molière)Le Rouge et le Noir (Stendhal)Der Prozess (Kafka)NibelungenliedFaust (Goethe)Woyzeck (Büchner)Der Zauberberg (Mann)Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (Musil)Mёpтвыe дyши (Гoгoль)Бpaтья Кapaмaзoвы (Дocтoeвcкий)Boйнa и миp (Toлcтoй)Macтep и Mapгapитa (Бyлгaкoв)Eвгeний Oнeгин (Пyшкин)Oтцы и дeти (Typгeнeв)Ulysses (Joyce)Moby-Dick (Melville)Paradise Lost (Milton)Hamlet (Shakespeare)The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)Middlemarch (Eliot)Ιλιάδα (Όμηρος)Ὀδύσσεια (Ὅμηρος)Divina Commedia (Alighieri)Ša nagba īmuruDon Quijote de la Mancha (Cervantes)Aenē̆is (Virgil)
>>25622338It can discuss Hegel better than this board
>>25622534Well that's not setting the bar very high.
>>25622361I asked it to recommend me three books and I dont think any of these are mainstream
people don't get the problem with ai. i'm sure as a tool for this or that task it's decent, it gives you more or less what you're immediately after in that moment. but at a larger historical scale ai is accompanied by the death of the forums, blogs and journals where you might otherwise have gained reading recs - and not only reading recs, but also a cultural context in which to place those books, a scene you could participate in and expect more from in future, a branching network of connections that go beyond your immediate needs and act as a sort of unpredictable unconscious in which the future of culture will gestate. ai is only effective on npcs because they're already sufficiently alienated not to feel the lack of such wider, richer contexts and the sensibilities those contexts produce. a book for them is simply a conveyor of informational or emotional units which you consume as you would nutritional supplements or energy drinks. alone in your bare room you press the button on the universal vending machine and your reading list pops out all pristinely formatted and free of inconveniences such as the tastes of other minds. perfect, you think, so efficient, so frictionless. and outside the world is becoming more and more unreal, it is promising less and less, and soon you'll start wondering why all the books you've had delivered seem to evoke nothing in you, to inspire no images and connect to no history. then you'll tell yourself that books must be pretty gay and overrated after all, and you'll reopen the tab with your ai goonwife so she can asmr you into your eternal sleep.
>>25622626I think forums started dying before AI. This one especially.
>>25622630yes, which was due in part to general cultural decay, in part to social media, which both in turn came from the same tendencies of capital that are now behind ai.
>>25622338Same. People are still living in 2023 with thinking that AI is pure ass.
>>25622662soulless zoomer, it still is 'pure ass', it's just that the true benchmarks are beyond your comprehnsion. your desires are so meagre and your horizons so narrow that ai can give you everything you believe you want - but it will never expand those horizons, or complicate those desires, and you'll die ignorant of the immensity of what you've missed out on.
>>25622686Keep seething, luddite. All you can do while you're left in the dust.
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>>25622338the problem is that you are essentially talking to a redditor, most of the time it's just a glorified search engine interface that spits out the first result (which is reddit) in a more condensed way
It's much better than this board once you learn how to interface with it and keep it from just cosigning to what you say.
>>25622338I get ChatGPT to summarize long philosophical tomes for me. Now I understand, for example, Heidegger's Being and Time without actually having to read all that shit.
>>25623090YOU DON'T FUCKING UNDERSTAND IT
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>>25623090if you ever had read a philosophy book attentively and with all your faculties switched on then you'd know why your post is depressing.in fact if you did understand heidegger you wouldn't be able to stomach something as worldless as ai at all.but perhaps you're only trolling. 'got me good.'
>>25623110It's because you aren't reading a book but reading an author, and the entire point is to learn their style of thought. The particularities are primary, and AI summaries utterly remove them.A book is a shard of someone's soul they poured intentionality and care into (hopefully.) Reading is sacred communion.
>>25622338Actually a good frogposter thread? Using AI for book recommendations is the best possible thing you can do with them. After all they were trained on mountains of books. If your AI use leads you to reading books you're doing it right.
>>25623110>>25623132Lot of cope from people who base their self worth off of struggling for years to grasp simple concepts wrapped up in intentionally opaque manner. AI has made your skillset irrelevant btw
>>25623141why assume this is about self-worth? again this is something you would only say if you had never had a meaningful encounter with literature.and i already know that the things most meaningful to me cannot be translated into fungible market value. you're projecting if you think i care about that.
>>25622584You should write a book.
>>25622338both that and Gemini here and the /history/ general usually. I like reading about the past.
>>25622630actually incel forums are now a thing. I got bullied off a metal forum years ago but at least the incels accept me as one of them despite me being a sexhaver.
>>25622584whats it like commanding a fleet of filipinos and indogs on a ship
>>25623090>>25623093>>25623110different levels of understanding exist. reading a summary of thought is not identical to the thought itself, but it can serve as scaffolding or as a productive imitation of the real thought. secondary source literature has always been useful for learners, though mistaking it for anything resembling full understanding is naive
>>25624814I'm not in a position that commands them as much but it's a massive chore
>>25622338I use ChatGPT for a lot of things, but it has consistently disappointed me for book recommendations.
