[api]

I honestly find this a little deranged. I’ve read some AI generated prose before and it’s… boring. It tends to be the mathematical average of all stories, with plots that are heavy on cliche and tropes played straight. If I read a book like that it’s probably just going to be a bad book that I don’t finish. Humans write lots of boring bad books too.

Eventually artists will figure out how to use AI to make real art that is actually good, just like photographers did with photography, and that will be its own new thing. I don’t see much of that yet but with photography it took a while.

[adamddev1]

We can't say "just like to photographers did with photography" or "just like programmers did with higher-level languages." These developments are not analogous to LLMs. The jump into probabilistic text-guessing machines a fundamentally different thing.

[bonoboTP]

Controversial, but I think photography is still nowhere close in artistic value to paintings. Yes, I've seen the award winning ones etc. Not impressed. It's fine I guess, but not more. Same with laptop music vs instrument music even before AI.

[actionfromafar]

Sure, but AI is about more than the arts. It's about high fructose corn syrup slop everywhere.

[api]

That predates AI and has more to do with the incentives baked into media, especially social media that’s all about “time on app” and “time on site” and therefore infinite scroll brain rot.

[actionfromafar]

It does predate AI. AI makes it much faster though and can close the rot-loop.

[api]

Get off social media. It’s trash. It was trash before AI and it’s trash now.

[bonoboTP]

HN is social media. And yes, let's get off it too. It's true.

[phendrenad2]

Maybe we'll return to curation and talent scouts. Like the pre-internet days of music: Everyone had a demo tape, but nobody wanted to listen to hundres of tapes of slop.

[ghaff]

Well, with writing it's more editors and lunches. That's how I got a book contract.