You are completely missing that it turns into lottery from perspective of potential writer.
You are asking people to spend enormous amount of work on writing 600 pages and hope that what they and what you consider as high-quality will align. AND that 10 slots will not be used up before they will complete.
This way only people willing to take big risks and with plenty of spare time will remain.
I would strongly suggest to start from something shorter.
BTW, is 60 000 pages sufficient to train some pattern matching like GPT-3?
This is about where I’m at, as well. I’ve been wrestling with the idea of starting a run myself, but one of my qualifying traits (I teach creative writing) also means I work full time and have little hope of beating out ten people who don’t. So much the better, I say, so long as the work gets done well and gets done soon...
...but if, eight months from now, much of the budget is still on the table because of quality issues, it may be because people me sat on our hands.
Hopefully, someone will emerge early to work around this issue, if it turns out to be one. I, for one, would love to be able to turn in a sample and then be offered a credible good-faith assurance that if my run is completed at same quality by such and such date, a payment of x will be earned. But as it stands, the deadline is “whenever that fastest mover(s) get there”. Who knows when that will be? Any emergent executive candidate making me a deal might be made a liar by a rival who beats them to the jackpot.
You are completely missing that it turns into lottery from perspective of potential writer.
You are asking people to spend enormous amount of work on writing 600 pages and hope that what they and what you consider as high-quality will align. AND that 10 slots will not be used up before they will complete.
This way only people willing to take big risks and with plenty of spare time will remain.
I would strongly suggest to start from something shorter.
BTW, is 60 000 pages sufficient to train some pattern matching like GPT-3?
This is about where I’m at, as well. I’ve been wrestling with the idea of starting a run myself, but one of my qualifying traits (I teach creative writing) also means I work full time and have little hope of beating out ten people who don’t. So much the better, I say, so long as the work gets done well and gets done soon...
...but if, eight months from now, much of the budget is still on the table because of quality issues, it may be because people me sat on our hands.
Hopefully, someone will emerge early to work around this issue, if it turns out to be one. I, for one, would love to be able to turn in a sample and then be offered a credible good-faith assurance that if my run is completed at same quality by such and such date, a payment of x will be earned. But as it stands, the deadline is “whenever that fastest mover(s) get there”. Who knows when that will be? Any emergent executive candidate making me a deal might be made a liar by a rival who beats them to the jackpot.