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Even leaving aside the fact that 90% of the slop an “AI” crapped out wouldn’t be worth reading in the first place, of what value is the culture of absolute soli
by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Even leaving aside the fact that 90% of the slop an “AI” crapped out wouldn’t be worth reading in the first place, of what value is the culture of absolute solipsism you’re proposing?
I would think we’re all rather beyond the age of asking our parents to tell us a story about a pretty unicorn and being satisfied with whatever meandering narrative they supply — is that really all you think books are? There’s no meaning the author was conveying, no value in a shared culture experiencing and interpreting the same work and building a common understanding, this can all just be effortlessly replaced by endless atomized autogenerated slop for piggies?
- lmm 4y agoPlenty of human-written books are bad. There are already genres where the way to get rich seems to be to crap out a narrative that hits the right keywords (or claim that you have - who's going to check?), tick the right representation checkboxes, pay the right influencers and bot farms to make it go viral on social media, and tada, there's your bestseller. While AI-generated books are not very good at the moment, there's nothing that inherently makes them better or worse than human-written books; ultimately it's the content that counts. I've been saying for years that curation is now a bigger problem than creation. AI is only accelerating the existing trend.