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A chill ran down my spine as I imagined this being applied to the written word online: my articles being automatically "corrected" or "improved" the moment I hi
by hliyan 1y ago
A chill ran down my spine as I imagined this being applied to the written word online: my articles being automatically "corrected" or "improved" the moment I hit publish, any book manuscripts being sent to editors being similarly "polished" to a point that we humans start to lose our unique tone and everything we read falls into that strange uncanny valley where everything reads ok, you can't quite put your finger on it, but it feels like something is wearing the skin of what you wrote as a face.
- anon191928 1y agoMaybe it's time for people to realize that you create product inside a product. Those T&S didnt write themselves. Not defending them. This is what tech bros in SV built and they all love it.
- carlosjobim 1y agoThe only way to know for sure that something was written by a human: It contains racism, or any other opinion AIs are forbidden to express. Now imagine the near future of the Internet, when all people have to adapt to that in order to not be dismissed as AI.
- delecti 1y agoMost of the big LLMs have those restrictions, but not all.
- tempodox 1y agoHow naive. Grok generates racism as a service, and Elon does his best to tune it that way.
- carlosjobim 1y agoWell then we will have to fucking swear in everything we fucking write, to identify ourselves as humans, since AI doesn't like nasty language. And we should also insult other participants, since AI will almost never take an aggressive stance against people it is conversing with, you god damned piece of shit.
- tempodox 1y agoI’ve gotten a local model to be pretty nasty with the right prompt, minus the expletives. It took every opportunity to tell me how inferior that puny human is it was forced to talk to.
- dsign 1y agoThe well is already poisoned. I'm refraining from hiring editors merely because I suspect there's a high chance they'll just use an LLM. All recent books I'm reading is with suspicion that they have been written by AI. However, polished to a point that we humans start to lose our unique tone is what style guides that go into the minutiae of comma placement try do do. And I'm currently reading a book I'm 100% sure has been edited by an expert human editor that did quite the job of taking away all the uniqueness of the work. So, we can't just blame the LLMs for making things more gray when we have historically paid other people to do it.
- brookst 1y agoIf something needs editing, why would you care what tool they use? It’s like saying you wouldn’t hire an engineer because you suspect they’d use computers rather than pencil and paper.
- rollcat 1y agoEngineering is making sure stuff works first, art distant second. Even if the text is a simple article, a personal touch / style will go a long way to make it more pleasant to read. LLMs are just making everything equally average, minus their own imperfections. Moving forward, they will in-breed while everything becomes progressively worse. That's death to our culture.
- cgriswald 1y agoIt’s worse. Even things not written by AI—like this comment—will slowly converge with each other in style as humans adapt by trying to avoid the appearance of having used AI. It won’t even be AI itself that causes this but human perception of what AI writing looks and feels like.
- djfdat 1y agoBecause "edited" is not a singular point. It's more like hiring a chef and getting a microwave dinner.
- ta8645 1y agoMy guess is that guys being replaced by the steam shovel said the same thing about the quality of holes being dug into the ground. "No machine is ever going to be able to dig a hole as lovingly or as accurately as a man with a shovel". "The digging machines consume way too much energy" etc. I'm pretty sure all the hand wringing about A.I. is going to fade into the past in the same way as every other strand of technophobia has before.
- bgwalter 1y agoDDT has been banned, nuclear reactors have been banned in Germany, many people want to ban internal combustion engines, supersonic flight has been banned. Moreover, most people have more attachment to their own thoughts or to reading the unaltered, genuine thoughts of other humans than to a hole in the ground. The comment you respond to literally talks about the Orwellian aspects of altering someone's works.
- therobots927 1y agoDon't let ideas like human rights and dignity get in the way of the tech marketing hype...
- therobots927 1y agoYou realize that making an analogy doesn't make your argument correct, right? And comparing digging through the ground to human thought and creativity is an odd mix of self debasement and arrogance. I'm guessing there is an unspoken financial incentive guiding your point of view.
- lotsofpulp 1y agota8645 did not make an analogy, nor did they use it to support an argument. They posited that a similar series of events happen before, and predicted they will happen again.
- therobots927 1y ago
- reactordev 1y agoThere never been a better time to collect analog.
- thisisit 1y agoEverything has to be produced on an assembly line. No mistakes allowed. Especially creativity. /s
- datadrivenangel 1y agothe /s is sarcastic right? Artisanal creativity isn't efficient enough.
- gnerd00 1y agoyou realize how ridiculous this is, in some ways, since a "master copy" of anything that is reproduced, is just like reproducing a machine-stamped master copy.. in the digital artifacts world, it is even more true
- numpad0 1y agothat would be straight up "I was born from my own sister"[1] moment 1: Chohei Kambayashi. (1994). Kototsubo. as yet unavailable in English
- shadowgovt 1y ago"Gee, sure would save editors a lot of time and effort if we just auto-spellchecked the manuscripts in the hopper, wouldn't it?"
- Mistletoe 1y agoYou've basically just described the last few years of journalism. We are lucky if a human even wrote the seed story for it.
- croes 1y ago"A spark of excitement ran through me imagining this applied to writing online: my articles receiving instant, supportive refinements the moment I hit publish, and manuscripts arriving to editors already thoughtfully polished—elevating clarity while letting our distinctive voices shine even brighter. The result is a consistently smooth, natural reading experience that feels confidently authentic, faithfully reflecting what I wrote while enhancing it with care."
- haswell 1y ago> thoughtfully polished > enhancing it with care I get what you’re going for with this comment, but it seamlessly anthropomorphizes what’s happening in a way that has the opposite impact I think. There is no thoughtfulness or care involved. Only algorithmic conformance to some non-human synthesis of the given style. The issue is not just about the words that come out the other end. The issue is the loss of the transmission of human thoughts, emotions, preferences, style. The end result is still just as suspect, and to whatever degree it appears “good”, even more soulless given the underlying reality.
- croes 1y agoYou do realize I just took parents comment and gave an AI the prompt to rewrite it by changing everything negative to a positive?
- Shadowmist 1y agoYeah we saw all saw the dash
- haswell 1y agoYes, that was pretty obvious, and that's part of why I wrote what I did.
- tempodox 1y agoThank you for dumping that load of excrement here. Maybe someone can use it as fertilizer.
- m4rtink 1y agoI guess this is where checksumms and digital signatures come in to prevent unauthorized stuff like this ?
- beefnugs 1y agoThis is why shadow banning rubbed people so wrong. I can't prove it, but i gave up on online dating a long time ago because i found a couple of automated systems would just not send messages and not tell you (in a middle of an already active conversation)