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by polyomino 102 days ago
Everyone knows the real money is in AI generated articles about AI
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I am this close to leaving the bloody internet and never coming back
I had my agent do that for me so I can still doom scroll.
"hi AI please give me a article to discuss if anyone is making money off AI"

Extra credit prompt: "please also shill my AI product"

Extra extra credit prompt: please make me an ai generated product to shill in the first place!
Yeah feels very ai to me. Got that chatgpt rhythm
You must have purchased a Mac Mini and were offended by my post.

Anyway, your comment made for a good follow up article: https://x.com/SiliconSnark/status/2029000449483845707?s=20

But seriously, why do people hate on AI writing but LOVE AI coding? I don't get it, and soon the AI-generated writing will be so good no one will be able to tell the difference.

> why do people hate on AI writing but LOVE AI coding?

People don't like AI writing because it reads like something written by corporate drones rather than actual humans.

People love AI coding for a couple of reasons. First, code doesn't read like prose. You don't complain about how code reads. (OK, people do, but the point of code is to execute.)

Second, people love AI coding because it's fast. It gets the code written far faster than a human would write it.

But isn't that true of AI writing as well? It gets the text written far faster than a human would write it.

So my "aha" moment: The people complaining about AI writing are the readers, and the people loving AI coding are the writers. When humans have to read that AI-written code, will they still love it? (Or can AI actually read and revise code well enough that nobody will ever have to get there?)

articles about AI making money, that is.