FYI: The one tool page I checked out included a real life artifact.

Perhaps he is busy, and this is a passion project.

As he says, he doesn't have much time to research the entire book.

You think he has "weeks" to write it up for others?

I imagine there are thousands of interesting projects people are doing solo and can't be bothered creating website to share with others for.

If AI can do this- fantastic! Let people moan if they can't see the positives of this. He's not trying to win an award or is paid to create a site for the public.

We're still in the AI-use-is-black-and-white phase. Most people still think it's more than just a tool still, cuz it still seems like magic to them. We'll get there, and then it will just be a tool like any other. Hopefully then we'll start holding the people behind it accountable when appropriate, instead of allowing it to be used as a scapegoat, as if it has agency.

“carefully checked and corrected” is also the sort of thing that llm's like to insert when you tell them to carefully check and correct in the prompt, and isn't otherwise really a natural thing to write.

Maybe this is because of the translation, I guess the author has written the non-English version first and then got it translated into English with AI, adding some additional explanations if necessary.

It may be the translation, however, this project is a passion for him. I would guess the passion is the book itself, and though he wants to share his passion, I imagine creating the actual page for others is tedious compared to the work of discovering the book. I have had the same issue.

If an AI can save you time so you can continue with your passion, I say go for it. No one has paid you to create the page, he's not vying for an award. If people are interested they can read it.

> the quality of writing on this page sounds like a poorly written middle school research paper.

But that is typical AI quality. It is a fancified Babelfish 2.0 translator.

Some humans also use AI to "interact" with other humans. They don't seem to understand that this is a problem for some humans. When a human AI slops me, I stop all any every further interaction (assuming I can find out that this human did so. It is not always possible to find that out).

This [0] is my secret weapon against this kind of slop. Any time I see any of these markers I tell my agent to read this again. Works unreasonably well.

[0] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/birep/bb865b2799d3f86d55f...

Wow. Well done! How did you do the markings? Do I understand it right that you also made the fasteners?

Were the holes at the top routed or done by hand?

Pigments are a rabbithole that will suck you in and spit you out 10 years later with arcane knowledge about grinding up various gemstones, drying plants and all manner of minerals such as clays and so on. You will also be exceptionally well traveled.

If you're ever in the Netherlands I can recommend a visit to the Zaanse Schans where they have a mill[1] from the days when pigments were ground with windpower. You can see the colors and you'll have a better understanding of why Royal Blue[2] was Royal (because it was incredibly expensive to make a lasting blue pigment).

Fascinating stuff.

[1] https://www.verfmolendekat.com/nl/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine

The author says in the introduction that a certain amount of the book is verified. Presence of LLM-use doesn’t inherently make something of less value.

I at least appreciate the warning on unreviewed generated pages and excluding them from SEO until reviewed, but it's still all untrustworthy spam by default.

OTOH, it also seems to draw much from https://kdih.badw.de/datenbank/handschrift/49a/4/1 according to the information on "Sources", which sounds genuine.

There was one the other day. Seemed really compelling. History thing where they walked through a statistical life of a regular person at some point in history. Really enjoyed it until I realized the whole thing was basically ai slop. Totally devalued real work for some slop BS. So frustrating.

There are, in fact, countless late medieval manuscripts just like this one. LLMs have been trained on many of them.

What scientific value are you looking for?

Glad I'm not the only one...

He was probably active on devotionalart badamtish

You'd have to first get past the crowds of people outside talking about how bad the picture frames are.

Definitely, but also shorter and a lot more violent. And then there were the diseases...

> But as a single person, I can only take on a project this big with AI as a tool.

That's so not true though. One of my uncles did work like this and it usually took a year or two to fully research a project and write a book but it is definitely doable to do this sort of thing - and much better, frankly - as a single individual. AI makes it a matter of days, but it also makes it next to worthless.

The biggest contribution here is to make an otherwise lesser known book more known.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6ffelholz-Codex

(Couldn't find an English wikipedia page on it)

Or enlist others or do a little bit at a time or…

The knight who wrote it took on a larger project without AI or a computer at all.