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To me, a work of art or a story created by a human will always have more value than something churned out by a machine.

midiguy 4y ago
Pretty soon you may not even be able to have that prejudice, because who will be able to definitively say your favorite author isn't using generative AI?
- tensor 4y ago
  This really isn't any different than the "hand crafted" trend. People like hand crafted even in cases where it's objectively worse than machine made. Also, it's often hard to know when something is really "hand crafted", or indeed where the line is before you can call it that. E.g. how many parts needs to be made by hand to say it's "hand crafted"? Also for writing, even today you don't really know if an author has used a ghost writer to help them.
  - JohnFen 4y ago
    > even today you don't really know if an author has used a ghost writer to help them. True, but the odds are overwhelming that the ghost writer was human.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  At which point, I'll probably stop reading new things and my favorite authors will be historical ones.
  - galleywest200 4y ago
    Why not join a group of like minded people and read each other's stories? No need to just give up and fold like that.
    - JohnFen 4y ago
      I don't think it's so easy to find a group of good writers (let alone convincing them to let me join!) But, yes, that would be an option. Honestly, though, if this sort of future actually comes to pass, I think I'll have much larger problems to find ways to handle first.
  - satvikpendem 4y ago
    You say that but I highly doubt you're going to completely stop reading new things at all. People probably said similar things when other inventions were made but humans adapt, the hedonic treadmill is real.
- davidivadavid 4y ago
  It's almost like there's a(t least a) startup idea in making "human made" certificates for those things.
waynesonfire 4y ago
The author ends the piece with, "it is something that we should never devalue." not sure when that come into the equation? People have been creating crap before generative AI. It seems to me like the author doesn't like the process of creation using generative AI techniques. For some people, generative AI allows them to express their art. So, there you go. Humans will continue to produce valuable art, with or without generative AI. Until a computer and the brain are indistinguishable, the expression of thought will be valuable in it of itself. I think, therefore I am. We are far from having "thinking" machines--whatever that may even be. We don't understand consciousness and the goal posts for what is AI / AIG keep moving. With that said, we know what the end-state may be. Singularity for instance, would be a game-changer.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  > Singularity for instance, would be a game-changer. While I think that "singularity" is just wild-eyed fantasy, if it ever happens then that will be the point at which humans are extinct.

Pretty soon you may not even be able to have that prejudice, because who will be able to definitively say your favorite author isn't using generative AI?

tensor 4y ago
This really isn't any different than the "hand crafted" trend. People like hand crafted even in cases where it's objectively worse than machine made. Also, it's often hard to know when something is really "hand crafted", or indeed where the line is before you can call it that. E.g. how many parts needs to be made by hand to say it's "hand crafted"? Also for writing, even today you don't really know if an author has used a ghost writer to help them.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  > even today you don't really know if an author has used a ghost writer to help them. True, but the odds are overwhelming that the ghost writer was human.
JohnFen 4y ago
At which point, I'll probably stop reading new things and my favorite authors will be historical ones.
- galleywest200 4y ago
  Why not join a group of like minded people and read each other's stories? No need to just give up and fold like that.
  - JohnFen 4y ago
    I don't think it's so easy to find a group of good writers (let alone convincing them to let me join!) But, yes, that would be an option. Honestly, though, if this sort of future actually comes to pass, I think I'll have much larger problems to find ways to handle first.
- satvikpendem 4y ago
  You say that but I highly doubt you're going to completely stop reading new things at all. People probably said similar things when other inventions were made but humans adapt, the hedonic treadmill is real.
davidivadavid 4y ago
It's almost like there's a(t least a) startup idea in making "human made" certificates for those things.

waynesonfire 4y ago

The author ends the piece with, "it is something that we should never devalue." not sure when that come into the equation? People have been creating crap before generative AI. It seems to me like the author doesn't like the process of creation using generative AI techniques. For some people, generative AI allows them to express their art. So, there you go. Humans will continue to produce valuable art, with or without generative AI. Until a computer and the brain are indistinguishable, the expression of thought will be valuable in it of itself. I think, therefore I am. We are far from having "thinking" machines--whatever that may even be. We don't understand consciousness and the goal posts for what is AI / AIG keep moving. With that said, we know what the end-state may be. Singularity for instance, would be a game-changer.

JohnFen 4y ago
> Singularity for instance, would be a game-changer. While I think that "singularity" is just wild-eyed fantasy, if it ever happens then that will be the point at which humans are extinct.