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I have seen this take on a few HN threads and I don't know where it comes from. People didn't stop reading books just because audiobooks got popular. Why would
by thequadehunter 4y ago
I have seen this take on a few HN threads and I don't know where it comes from. People didn't stop reading books just because audiobooks got popular.
Why would people suddenly just turn to AI for all their entertainment? Part of the reason people love art is because they relate to it.
Like, in 2023 with the internet, blog posts, youtube, reddit, movies, etc, there's still enough demand for books that people buy them. Just because a new medium is created doesn't mean it suddenly just becomes the only medium.
- swader999 4y agoA lot of entertainment is already formulaic. Disney, Marvel etc.
- Jensson 4y agoPeople stopped reading handwritten books once the printing press became a thing. So yes, new technology sometimes does completely eliminate the old. We aren't sure where on the line this tech will fall, maybe a future LLM will be good enough to generate endless stories at high quality, or maybe they will always feel soulless, we don't know.
- thequadehunter 4y agoWhen I said "Medium" I meant the medium itself. A handwritten book and a typed book are both still a book. The printing press made books skyrocket in popularity because they became easier to produce.
- vishal0123 4y agoLong form messaging like letters is close to dead due to the effect of telephone and SMS. Internet eliminated the need to go to library to find information. Hell, even books/writing changed the way people acquired and stored information and people no longer needed to be present in the university. Plato was against writing in a time when writing was just becoming accessible in a widespread way, and in just 2000 years we literally can't imagine a world without writing.