[ekianjo]

> message and the reasoning should be yours,

I think we havent realized yet that most of us don't really have original thoughts. Even in creative industries the amount of plagiarism (or so called inspiration) is at all times high (and that's before LLMs were available).

[saalweachter]

Sure, but also, curation is a service.

An author that does nothing but "plagiarize" and regurgitate the ideas of others is incredibly valuable... if they exercise their human judgement and only regurgitate the most interesting and useful ideas, saving the rest of us the trouble of sifting through their sources.

[aeonik]

Even novel thoughts are rarely original.

Every time I come up with an algorithm idea, or a system idea, I'm always checking who has done it before, and I always find significant prior art.

Even for really niche things.

I think my name Aeonik Chaos might be one of the only original, never before done things. And even that was just an extension of established linguistic rules.

[treetalker]

My great-great grandfather was named Aeonik Chaos!

[aeonik]

I knew it! My google searches failed me.

[sinuhe69]

If you don’t have original thoughts and your response is not even your (but of a machine), why should anyone care about it? And if humans don’t produce their own thoughts and feelings anymore but merely a half effort of a probabilistic parrot, where should it end and what should all this mean? Besides the collapse of all AI, I’m pretty sure our society will collapse as well.

[lewdwig]

With code, I’m much more interested in it being correct and good rather than creative or novel. I see it is my job to be the arbiter of taste because the models are equally happy to create code I’d consider excellent and terrible on command.

[mediumsmart]

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.