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I disagree. The problem is not that there isn’t a mind behind the AI (a claim not everyone might agree with anyway). The problem is that the writing is pretty b
by layer8 1mo ago
I disagree. The problem is not that there isn’t a mind behind the AI (a claim not everyone might agree with anyway). The problem is that the writing is pretty bad. Another problem is that it is all the same “voice”, as opposed to the individual voices of the people who allegedly produced the writing. That isn’t a problem of it being a machine either, as there’s nothing in principle preventing a machine from accurately emulating a wide variety of writing and thinking styles.
- westcoast49 1mo agoThe deeper question is why we register it as bad. It has the "same voice" you say. But that is also, kind of, the same as saying that there is no humanity behind it, no identity, no "mind". For lexical articles, like text given as an answer to a single prompt or question, AI writing can be excellent. Because, there we do want an answer that represents the average or combination of all human knowledge about the topic. We're not looking for personality, or another mind. When we read long-form text, on the other hand, what we are engaging in, is mind-transfer. We then expect there to be a recognizable mind at the other end. And this is, in my opinion, what typically falls apart when we ask an AI to write a complete long-form text.