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Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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Well, they wouldn't claim to assemble it. It's clear to me these people using AI so heavily don't have an authorship role at all, but a publishing one.

It's not so clear to me. AI is just a tool you use like any other.

I can't imagine anything is clear to you.

Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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If a person learns how to paint expertly by looking at (and even copying, stroke for stroke) paintings, would you consider that immoral, and those paintings having been stolen? If not, what would you say the difference is?

There is the notable difference in the speed and scale at which a computer can be trained. The analogy doesn't really hold up in my opinion.

Being able to do something faster isn't automatically a moral principle. Even between two humans there will be big differences.

Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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Go ahead and create, no technology is stopping anyone from doing that. But I don't see why you can't create while using a technology like ChatGPT. Coming up with the proper prompts, rewriting some of its output, using its output as an input, etc. There's a lot of things you can do to combine your own novel thoughts with the text generated by a machine. That's a way to create things that has never really been possible…

> Go ahead and create, no technology is stopping anyone from doing that Yeah, but where did I say that? That's not my point at all. Here are my thoughts, rephrased: - We, mankind, don't need AI to "improve" writing. This is a problem nobody has. There's a plethora of writing, both for children and for adults. - People enjoy writing, so this isn't an activity we want to "optimize". There's no need for ChatGPT here. -…

Why is it not parenting to create a story with an AI with your kid? Why is what you are doing better?

How do you know something is lost when using an AI to assist in writing? Could it be that something will be gained? Perhaps it will unleash creativity in people that wouldn’t have written before? Maybe the greatest literary work ever created will be built by someone using an AI. Or maybe we’ll see the limits emerge and this won’t be another John Henry story.

Your argument very much sounds like the argument of the Luddite’s. But here’s the thing - you can always check out of it. The Amish certainly have thrived while not participating in very much of what we call “advancements”. I think that’s a better approach than Ted Kaczynsky’s.

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