[bglazer]

Even if there weren’t stylistic and logical problems with the story, I don’t think I’d be terribly interested in reading it.

Fundamentally, literature is about communication with other people, living in another person’s mental world or understanding their unique perspective.

It’s not really clear to me what human value an LLM generated story has. It’s a statistically probable sequence of tokens generated from the distribution of internet-based language. It had no unique perspective, and conveys nothing about actual human experience. What do I learn from that? How is my life enriched?

[TillE]

There's a segment of generative AI proponents who, on a fundamental level, genuinely do not understand art. All art is communication, and without humanity it is meaningless.

LLMs are really cool for creative brainstorming and stuff like that, as a tool for inspiration, but I am baffled by the idea that anyone is interested in entire AI-generated works.

[CamperBob2]

What do I learn from that?

That you are nothing special. The computer is just doing what you do, putting one word after the last one. Picking each word more or less carefully, based on its own training and the audience's expectations.

It's doing it badly, for the moment. But would we mock a talking dog who stutters?

How is my life enriched?

Being able to see what's coming is helpful, more often than not.

[bglazer]

You’re describing human communication as “nothing special”, just a string of patterns that have no significance beyond their low entropy.

Frankly that’s solipsistic, bordering on pure nihilism. When I read another person’s writing or talk to them, it enriches my life because it gives me a slice of their experience. When I read LLM output, it just definitionally can’t do that, no matter how plausible and semantically meaningful the words are. What is the purpose of literature for you? Just consuming a pleasing string of words?

That’s not to say they have no value, just that I can’t learn anything about another person’s experience of life through an LLM, because they aren’t people

[otabdeveloper4]

The LLM isn't creating new information, only packaging existing information.

[CamperBob2]

When it creates a poem, song, essay, painting, or program that has never existed before, it is doing what we do. Whether or not we define that as "creating new information" is not an especially interesting question at the end of the day.

[otabdeveloper4]

No, because what matters here is if information complexity (aka entropy) is being increased.

Humans increase it, LLMs decrease it.

This matters because eventually in the future information complexity will be humankind's only valuable resource.

(So humans create value, LLMs destroy it.)

[CamperBob2]

(Shrug) If you want to increase entropy, just call rand().

You might take a bit of time to learn what you're talking about before posting, or at least before forming permanent opinions on the subject. It's fascinating stuff, trust me... and I'm not that much farther along than you are, trust me on that as well.