Tolstoy Using AI

tolstoy using ai.. so disappointing :( VOLUME II, PART I 370 easy velvety smoothness, so closely bound up with its own artistic imperfections that it seemed untouchable—a bit if nothing could be done to that voice without spoiling it. “How can she?” thought Nikolay with staring eyes when he heard her sing. “What’s got into her? How can she sing at a time like this?” he thought. But then suddenly his whole world was concentrated on waiting for the next note, the next cadence, and everything in the world had a three-beat rhythm: Oh, mio crudele affetto . . . One, two, three . . . One, two, three . . . One . . . Oh, mio crudele affetto . . . One, two, three . . . “Oh, the stupidity of human life!” thought Nikolay. “All these things—this disaster, money, Dolokhov, evil, honor—are all rubbish . . . But she is what matters . . . Go on, Natasha! Go on, darling! Go on, my lovely girl! . . . Can she get that top B? Yes! Well done!” and, unaware that he was singing too, he accompanied her a third below to strengthen her top note. “My God, how marvelous! Did I get that high? Wonderful feeling!” he thought. Oh, the beauty of their singing in thirds, Oh, the lovely tremolo! Rostov felt a thrill of something nobler in his soul. And that something was detached from everything in the world, and higher than anything in the world. Gambling debts? Dolokhov? Honour? What were they compared with this? Rubbish! You can murder and steal

A screenshot of an X post jokes that Tolstoy is “using AI,” followed by a photograph of a page from a classic novel with several passages circled in red. The joke is that the dramatic, oddly specific prose and visible editorial-looking markings are humorously presented as if they were generated or altered by artificial intelligence. It is sent as an absurd reaction to suspiciously overcomplicated writing or an apparently AI-generated literary passage. EN: A screenshot of an X post jokes that Tolstoy is “using AI,” followed by a photograph of a page from a classic novel with several passages circled in red. The joke is that the dramatic, oddly specific prose and visible editorial-looking markings are humorously presented as if they were generated or altered by artificial intelligence. It is sent as an absurd reaction to suspiciously overcomplicated writing or an apparently AI-generated literary passage.

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