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UnPayWalled: https://archive.ph/7OS2Q https://archive.ph/7OS2Q Take-away quotation: > All of the buffoons excited by the prospect of AI taking over all our wr
by ColinWright 2y ago
UnPayWalled: https://archive.ph/7OS2Q https://archive.ph/7OS2Q
Take-away quotation:
> All of the buffoons excited by the prospect of AI taking over all our writing — report summaries, data surveys, children’s letters, all tossed into the same pile indiscriminately — are missing the point in a spectacular manner. Do you know what writing is?
> It is thinking in a form that you can share with other people. It is a method for taking thoughts and images and stories out of your brain and putting them into someone else’s brain. E.M. Forster quotes a woman saying, “How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?” To take away the ability to write for yourself is to take away the ability to think for yourself.
- Kon-Peki 2y ago> To take away the ability to write for yourself is to take away the ability to think for yourself. She writes that as if this is a bad thing (from Google's point of view). Just think of how much more effective advertising will be!
- wccrawford 2y agoI hate that ad. But I don't agree with those quotes. Writing to other people is a way to communicate your ideas and feelings to them. If you are unable to easily communicate those ideas and feelings, you can get someone, or some thing, to help you. The alternatives are to just send it and know it won't be understood, or struggle and hope it's understood. That ad isn't asking for help with that, though. It's asking the AI to pretend to be his daughter and send a fan letter that means nothing. It isn't taking his daughter's thoughts and feelings and communicating them... It's just making everything up whole cloth, and even inventing a fake daughter for the guy to have that wants and does what he wants, instead of what she wants. It's disgusting.