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Maybe I'm an outlier, but personally if a friend used ai to make me a gift like in TFA, I'd be pretty offended. Using AI shows that you didn't care enough to even think about it on your own. When I see a business use obviously AI generated imagery, I think "I'll stay away from them, they clearly don't care enough to do things the right way." It's a sign of disrespect and a lack of care. I know my partner thinks similarly, as do most of our friends. I don't think creativity is going anywhere long term, though perhaps there will be an awkward adjustment period while older people catch up to the new social norms.

[beej71]

I wonder how many parents are looking forward to the day their kids can just talk to a computer and have an LLM produce all the works. That'll be something to proudly hang on the fridge, yeah?

[Waterluvian]

This thread inspired me and I made this prompt for you:

“A comic of a kid and his father standing in the kitchen. The father is pinning a page to the fridge with a magnet while the kid stands there, proudly watching. The page is an image depicting a comic of a kid and his father standing in the kitchen as the father pins a page to the fridge with a magnet.”

Edit: I decided that without effort, a gift can fall a little flat. So I took the time to process the prompt for you. I hope you like it! https://ibb.co/PsdDjDLy

[rootusrootus]

That was good for a laugh. And of course it is so typically AI. Superficially pretty incredible, and then you start to spot the errors. And they are the kind of errors only an LLM would make, not a human.

Also a pretty great demo of why original content creators hate LLMs for stealing all their work.

[Waterluvian]

Who stole the fridge art, Billy?

NOT ME!

[JohnFen]

> if a friend used ai to make me a gift like in TFA, I'd be pretty offended

As would I. Not only would that demonstrate they don't care, but it would also indicate that this "friend" simply doesn't know me at all, and therefore is an acquaintance at best.

[pj_mukh]

What if I used no AI in writing it i.e. it was all heartfelt but used AI to literally edit a video together? The author says

"Two videos, with different stories, shared so many similarities that most people thought they were roughly the same.

Same similar tone of voiceover with cadence. Same cutscenes of flying over empty beaches, and navigating forest trees and stars/universe, and same narrative: after years of evolution scientists have yet to discover the power of such love with a national geographic tone in both (one of the videos even started with that logo)."

Which to me, just means the manually done cutscenes was a waste of time? In fact in most situations pre-AI you'd foist this task on "that one friend" who's good with Movie Maker or hire a hobby videographer. Now I offload to AI, why is that bad?

I think having Claude wholesale write a wedding speech is obviously silly, but the rest doesn't seem so black and white, just more Ikea-fication of consumer art.

[javascriptfan69]

>Which to me, just means the manually done cutscenes was a waste of time? In fact in most situations pre-AI you'd foist this task on "that one friend" who's good with Movie Maker or hire a hobby videographer. Now I offload to AI, why is that bad?

Because there's no value in something that you offload to AI without effort.

If it's something that anyone could do, without skill, why would anyone be impressed by that?

[Tadpole9181]

> If it's something that anyone could do, without skill, why would anyone be impressed by that?

Gifts aren't supposed to be impressive. Nor is their value measured by effort or cost.

Nor does this reply answer their question of "is hiring a professional to to it any better?" It seems you would have to argue no, though.

[frollogaston]

"The person of our group that championed it used AI for the script/narrative"

[fuzzythinker]

If someone says "if a friend used ai to make me a gift like in TFA, I'd be pretty offended" and not spell out what TFA means and make me ask ai, I'll be shaking my head

[kazinator]

On the gift scale, an AI thing is worse than an envelope with cash.

[simondotau]

Ironically, I think that serves as an absurdist refutation of the argument. On the gift scale, the question is appropriateness, a measure of sacrifice, and a measure of thoughtfulness. Personally I'd find some kind of AI-personalised gift to be slightly less worse than buying me a Gift™ from a major chain store.

[handwarmers]

I remember the day when my dad gave me $100 in an envelope. One of the worst days of my life.

[frollogaston]

Best day was when my dad said he's good at Texas Hold'em, I said 1v1 me, I won, he said it's not realistic unless we play for $200, I agreed, I won again

[cherrylimesoda]

If you don’t learn how to play every instrument, sing, and use your private plane to fly on location to film the music video then your soul ain’t even in it bro

I need millions spent, rainforests burned down, office complexes erected, ecosystems and lives ruined, layoffs - or it didn’t happen bro. It’s just AI

[kibwen]

It's utterly mortifying. I would have been having an out-of-body experience if I was in attendance at such a wedding. If it had been my own wedding, I'd have been livid at the insult.

[frollogaston]

I can't even imagine doing this. It's not that hard to make a special video once you've collected the source material. It won't look professional at all, but nobody cares about that at a wedding.