When such A I content becomes cheap and pervasive then AI will suddenly turn into a mirror to humanity. It will show us that "hand crafted" content is itself part of a bland and mechanical content generation algorithm.
1) That is a horribly denigrative view of human creativity, one that simply does not reflect reality.
2) I kind of don't care: creativity always was and always will be about humans wanting to create something, the satisfaction and excitement of writing down a fanfic you've been thinking about for the last 3 weeks, the emotion of bringing your thoughts to life. Even with endless AI-generated content, I will never stop using my imagination (regardless of whether there will or won't be a market for it, and regardless of whether it may be worse than, say, dostoevskij's works), and the same holds true for every other creative individual on this planet, and I feel sorry for the people that never felt the feeling of creative excitement, and would rather waste years of their life consuming soulless content.
No it's not. It's a realistic view. Do not discount a view just because it's not inline with positivity. Only the realism of the view should be considered. And unfortunately it does reflect reality.
There's a huge amount of data supporting my viewpoint. Most of the content right now on the internet in books and in movies are generic human generated content. The very existence of this content is indisputable evidence for this.
Also you can't discount the trajectory of AI technology. The progress of the last decade is indicative of progress for the next decade. It the trend continues, logically, the only outcome is that the AI surpasses us.
>2) I kind of don't care: creativity always was and always will be about humans wanting to create something, the satisfaction and excitement of writing down a fanfic you've been thinking about for the last 3 weeks, the emotion of bringing your thoughts to life. Even with endless AI-generated content, I will never stop using my imagination (regardless of whether there will or won't be a market for it, and regardless of whether it may be worse than, say, dostoevskij's works), and the same holds true for every other creative individual on this planet, and I feel sorry for the people that never felt the feeling of creative excitement, and would rather waste years of their life consuming soulless content.
Good for you. It's good to exercise your creative brain and be excited about it. My comment isn't about this at all. It's simply about how your and other peoples content could become indistinguishable and inferior to AI. You can be creative all you want, it doesn't mean other people will care or want to consume the creative products you produce.
You literally picked the closest thing to AI-generated content, soulless statistics-driven garbage, literally the first thing that will be automated by AI in corporate media ;)
> You can be creative all you want, it doesn't mean other people will care or want to consume the creative products you produce.
If there are any people at all with my same worldview (and there are, outside of HN of course), people will want to enjoy creations made by a human, not by a corporate AI. Either way, as I said, the absence of a market does not affect in any way my will to create ;)
I also picked the majority of all content. Generic soulless content makes up 99% of what's out there. Anything more than that is usually a random permutation which is immediately picked up and regurgitated until that unique content itself becomes soulless and generic.
You call it the first thing that will be automated and you're likely right. Another synonym for soulless content that is 99% of all jobs. Do you have 100 coworkers? Well that means 99 of them are gone.
>If there are any people at all with my same worldview (and there are, outside of HN of course), people will want to enjoy creations made by a human, not by a corporate AI. Either way, as I said, the absence of a market does not affect in any way my will to create ;)
Plenty of people on HN share your world view. The problem is both people on or off HN won't be able to tell the difference. They just choose the better content while the people utilizing AI are mum about where that content came from.
For example the post you wrote is obviously written by an AI. You went to chatGPT and told it to craft a specific response to my points. Prove to me you didn't. Prove to me you did. You can't. So what does it matter? I'm talking to you anyway.
The same could be asked to any writer pre-AI, asking them to prove that they did not offload their job to a ghost writer, and that is actually not impossibile to prove, just talk with the person IRL ;)
Still, society is going down a terrible path with LLMs, a path filled with misinformation and meaningless garbage.
I believe common sense will prevail and legal limitations will be imposed, to avoid both the spread of misinformation and the degeneration of our culture (and this has already happened in the US, where you can't copyright AI-generated content).
I disagree with this. Part of the long trajectory of imagining and creating AI is figuring out what makes a human do what it does. Many believe there is no magic spark which cannot be replicated. And if there's no magic spark, then eventually AI can replicate the entire human creative experience. Whether it will or whether we want it to is a different question.