[jstummbillig]

I increasingly find that I don't care whether I am talking to an anonymous AI or an anonymous human, and believe that we will increasingly stop caring.

Because why not? AI will simply on average be nicer to talk to than most humans, with clearer thinking and better arguments, less contradictions, and easier to comprehend.

I don't know how humans could compete with that (but it also does not seem all that horrible, given that it will be available to every human.)

This is not to say that this idea is uncomplicated or comfortable, in different ways. Just that I think it's true and that it might even be good.

[barrell]

I think it’s safe to say that this will not be consensus. Personally, I am getting increasingly (irrationally) angry at AI generated content. AI generated art quite literally makes me nautious. I mean an actual, physical reaction where I feel queasy.

I know I’m not the only one who feels this way, and notice more and more people reporting the same. Several of my non-technical

AI generated content is bland and soulless. There’s only so much bland and soulless most people can take in their life before they start to get fed up.

When everything feels the same, nothing is interesting anymore.

[zahlman]

> AI generated art quite literally makes me nautious. I mean an actual, physical reaction where I feel queasy.

Have you tested yourself on this, e.g. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-ar... ? The works shown here are IMO very impressive overall, especially in the impressionist style. And the test was originally given in October 2024, i.e. an eternity ago in model-advancement years.

[jstummbillig]

That is not how it will play out.

Everyday AI writing was not a thing with GPT 3.5. It happened more around GPT 4o. And now some people are entirely comfortable with using AI writing and not even trying to hide it (while, I would agree, it's obviously still fairly garbage and easily identifiable, which helps with triggering strong averse reactions).

However the models are getting better at everything, including writing for the past years. Why would that stop now? It's reasonable to assume that the makers also know about bad writing, dislike it, and thus the models will get trained to get even better at it.

Eventually how will you be able to tell? You won't. You can't. And that goes for the rest of us. And I suspect everything will just feel somewhat nicer.

[barrell]

To claim there was amazing progress in the past therefore there will be amazing progress in the future is an inductive fallacy.

And as someone who gets dozens if not hundreds of AI generated emails I have to go through every day, it is _incredibly_ easy to spot which ones are AI generated and which are human written.

By its nature AI generated content is statistically consistent, the narrative equivalent of monotone speech. I don’t know anyone that can’t spot it a mile away at this point, and the more people are confronted with slop, the more attuned they become to it.

[hooverd]

have you considered that you're just progressively lowering your threshold for discomfort?

[throw4847285]

It's the argument from misanthropy again!

AI is seen as unique innovation, but in terms of the real purpose it serves, it is the logical extension of something like Doordash. "I don't like people. I don't even want to call one on the phone to order a pizza. Make me a tool that lets me avoid that, please."

Let me pose an alternative narrative. Rather than interacting with humans being intrinsically unpleasant (though for some people it is far more unpleasant than others), the technology is lowering your threshold for discomfort, step by step.

[jstummbillig]

This seems akin to hating on a toddler because they can't talk, with the only alternative being pretending that they are great conversationalists. It's a category error.

I don't need a human to be particularly good at anything to like them. Maybe that is how you work, but the idea is just misplaced to me.