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I think it should be illegal to trick humans into reading "creative" machine output.

It strikes me as a form of fraud that steals my most precious resources: time and attention. I read creative writing to feel a human connection to the author. If the author is a machine and this is not disclosed, that's a huge lie.

It should be required that publishers label AI generated content.

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> I think it should be illegal to trick humans into reading "creative" machine output.

Creativity has lost its meaning. Should it be illegal? The courts will take a long time to settle the matter. Reselling people's work against their will as creative machine output seems unethical, to say the least.

> It should be required that publishers label AI-generated content.

Strongly agree.

I'm pretty sure you read for pleasure, and feeling a human connection is one way that you derive pleasure. If it's the only way that you derive pleasure from reading, my condolences.

Pretty much where my thoughts on this are. I rarely feel any particular sense of connection to the actual author when I read their books. And I have taken great pleasure from some AI stories (to the degree I put them up on my personal website as a way to keep them around).

Under the dingnuts regime, Dwarf Fortress will be illegal. Actually, any game with a procedural story? You better believe that's a crime: we can't have a machine generate text a human might enjoy.

Dingnuts point was that it should be disclosed. Everyone knows Dwarf Fortress stories are procedural/AI generated, the authors aren't trying to hide that fact.

Actually, fair enough. I still disagree with their argument, but this was the wrong tack for me to use.

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