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It feels like I won't be reading any books published from 2023 onwards unless they came from writers I already know and respect or are known and respected by th
by world2vec 4y ago
It feels like I won't be reading any books published from 2023 onwards unless they came from writers I already know and respect or are known and respected by those writers.
- somedude895 4y agoAny awards for up-and-coming authors or best first publish for 2023 will be interesting
- wongarsu 4y agoI would assume "buy from publishers you trust" will still be a good strategy. Publishers can enforce some baseline of quality, where on-demand printed books is just a flood of things of every possible quality level. Of course making sure nothing is written using ChatGPT is impossible, but you can make sure the reader gains something from reading the book (whether that's insight or entertainment)
- ReptileMan 4y agoThat is bigoted speciesism. As long as the books are good - does it matter what generated them
- kvetching 4y agoIt's okay to be prejudiced.
- Pigalowda 4y agoHe doesn’t like when the other mammals only enjoy mammalian things. It makes his cold reptileman blood run even icier.
- world2vec 4y agoIt does matter, to me at least. You can read whatever you want. And how is it speciesism? LLMs are not biological entities nor conscious (yet, I guess).
- vasco 4y agoThat is called sarcasm, top shelf too, so it doesn't self-identify as such and you need to think as you read.
- world2vec 4y agoDidn't felt like sarcasm to me (and if it is, definitely not top-shelf but opinions may vary) but yeah it happens sometimes that those things go over my head.
- Mordisquitos 4y agoI agree. It matters to me too and, as you say, it cannot be called "speciesism" even in the most generous definition of the word. I propose the term lifeism: ethical and aesthetic prejudice favouring entities that have a life over those that do not. We can do a thought experiment: There is a runaway trolley hurtling down a track in the direction of a mediocre human science-fiction author, who is not even good enough to quit his or her day job. On a side track is a server holding the only trained copy of an experimental ChatGPT model which can generate science-fiction novels as good and original as Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin combined, and at a massive scale. You can pull a lever to divert the trolley towards the server, destroying the ChatGPT model. Do you pull the lever? As a self-confessed lifeist I would definitely pull the lever. (By the way, the mediocre author is not actually on the track, but on a bridge on top of it, out of harm's way)
- discreteevent 4y agoNot speciesism. I'm biased against anyone who has a history of bullshitting. In general I would like to know before I read something whether an LLM wrote it. Why not just read it and see if it's good, you say. Because the thing about bullshitters is that they can waste a lot of your time before letting you down badly. The ones who are good at it are the worst.
- brookst 4y agoYou don’t use reviews or ratings to decide what to read? That is crazy brave even for pure human writers.
- vlunkr 4y agoI think it may be possible for someone to write an interesting book with the assistance of an LLM, but what this article is warning about is people dumping tons of low-effort AI generated content into the market. Those are just not going to be good.
- rchaud 4y agoBooks will be fine. Most people don't buy books from first-time authors blindly. What will suffer, and possibly even disappear, are online comments sections. Yes, they're pretty much gone anyway because nobody besides Meta/Twitter wants to moderate discussions. But ChatGPT-driven bots will probably kill what little is left of organic conversations.
- Daffodils 4y agoHopefully Dang and HN will persist.
- blensor 4y agoSo it will come down to curation. Being a trusted source for recommendations may become an actual business, kind of an ad blocker for books.
- demygale 4y agoBut you’ll never know if the writer you respect is generating future novels with an AI trained on their past writing. Maybe this is better, but in a very short time, AI writing will be indistinguishable from human writing.
- world2vec 4y agoI admit it's not a perfect heuristic but it's the only one I can think of at the moment. Things will definitely change quite a lot in the next few years and I'll need to adapt accordingly.