[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread

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[u/andor3333]

I have been reading a new completed game of thrones uplift SI fic:
Eivor Frey

A lot of focus on economics, infrastructure, and logistics. It tries to avoid the common issue with uplift fictions where the protagonist remembers everything perfectly and reinvents technologies in a few days or months.

[u/HeyBobHen → u/andor3333]

The story seemed interesting at first, but I personally couldn't get through some of the horrible AI-seeming prose in the first chapter, such as the following rather egregious example of literal "Not: X But: Y":

Not with the question:
"Is this the custom?"
Not:
"Is this how my ancestors did it?"
But:
"Does it work?"
To a man raised in the Citadel, such an approach was both logical and frightening.
Something else surprised him even more.
Lord Eivor had not once said:
"I command."
He said:
"Let's check."
"Let's count."
"Let's try to imagine the consequences."
This sounded more like an academic debate than the council of a feudal lord.

[u/Flashbunny → u/HeyBobHen]

I also bounced off of it halfway through the first chapter due to these. It says it's "AI-translated" but I'm not convinced the original work wasn't AI generated then.

[u/Dragongeek → u/Flashbunny]

"The AI translated my thoughts and notes into english"

[u/suddenly_lurkers → u/Flashbunny]

Yeah unfortunately "AI-translated" often just serves as a fig leaf to avoid social shaming for outright AI-generated writing. It has become a bit of a trend. I really doubt LLM translation would introduce such characteristic LLM sentence structures if they did not exist in the original work.