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by emodendroket 1034 days ago
Sure, it's neat that it can do those things... still I don't think that I'm exactly ready to toss aside books written by humans in favor of AI-generated alternatives.
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Writers have started using AI-generated ideas to help them write books.

Same with code. Sure it might not write your product code from start to finish with no help but it will speed up your dev speed significantly for certain tasks. Just because we haven't reached singularity doesn't mean what we have now is useless and putting it down as a "parlor trick" as grandparent said seems to me very unwise.

Ad copy has served a similar purpose but nobody would claim ad copy has (or could) supplant creative writing because of that.
Ad copy is (a form of) creative writing.
OK. Literary writing.