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How can you internet in {current year}, and seriously think we need more content writers? We’re not talking about top-tier investigative journalists blowing sca

by jl2718 3y ago

How can you internet in {current year}, and seriously think we need more content writers? We’re not talking about top-tier investigative journalists blowing scandals open and speaking truth to power. We’re talking about the meaningless banter filling space between ads that turn a simple recipe search into a dystopian nightmare. I hope and trust that they will find meaning in a career fixing and building and caring for physical things that people actually want to pay for. This is a step forward.

carlosjobim 3y ago
Couldn't agree more, and my work is largely content writing. For content to have any value, it should contain unique information or an especially good and useful presentation of existing information. Otherwise making that content is just worthless busywork. Like the example in this thread of a poster making a press release. How could AI add any information that is of any value? The same goes for AI generated images. If your images are not extremely relevant you are doing it wrong. Use images of your product, not random people smiling. Stock photos, Corporate Memphis art and AI images are a negative value for the information you're presenting. Just as you, I hope companies some day understand that their worthless filler content is just getting in the way of their sales.
- jl2718 3y ago
  Thank you for that perspective. From the AI side, I think it’s funny how there can be so much simultaneous interest in both “AI writing”, which is exactly as you say, and “AI summarization”, which is like inverting the AI writing function to retrieve the prompt data. An absurd, but seemingly likely, end state of this is an arms race between the two technologies, completely transparent to the user, and resulting in roughly the same user experience, which is always set to the limit of their tolerance.

by jl2718 3y ago

carlosjobim 3y ago

Couldn't agree more, and my work is largely content writing. For content to have any value, it should contain unique information or an especially good and useful presentation of existing information. Otherwise making that content is just worthless busywork. Like the example in this thread of a poster making a press release. How could AI add any information that is of any value? The same goes for AI generated images. If your images are not extremely relevant you are doing it wrong. Use images of your product, not random people smiling. Stock photos, Corporate Memphis art and AI images are a negative value for the information you're presenting. Just as you, I hope companies some day understand that their worthless filler content is just getting in the way of their sales.

jl2718 3y ago
Thank you for that perspective. From the AI side, I think it’s funny how there can be so much simultaneous interest in both “AI writing”, which is exactly as you say, and “AI summarization”, which is like inverting the AI writing function to retrieve the prompt data. An absurd, but seemingly likely, end state of this is an arms race between the two technologies, completely transparent to the user, and resulting in roughly the same user experience, which is always set to the limit of their tolerance.