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AI is presented as an expert in every domain though, so we are lulled into a vulnerable state of unvigilance.
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Reminds me of Google's Doodles, which must have annoyed millions of people and wasted millions of minutes worldwide, and don't get me started on ads.
Google doodles generally bring me joy and let me know about world events I wasn't aware of. I honestly can't think of a single one that annoyed me. Often it's just "oh, it looks interesting, but I don't have time to click on it now; maybe I'll look into it later"
Why would I read a book that a person couldn't be bothered to write?
Is it any good? Perhaps we can ask Opus to review it to find out.
As a writer, this is deeply comforting. The book is total shit. It sounds like an AI, not like something a person would connect with for even a moment. Not even in the opening lines.
Did you read more than the opening lines? When you've read it in its entirety, could you indicate on a scale from 1 to 10 what score it would get compared to published books you've read (including of course all the best and the worst ones)?
We thought that movies adapting to the tiktok generation wouldn't kill cinema, and that new and better directors would rise... this didn't happen and even the latest movies from good directors like ridley scott are quite bad.
Now 3 years ago I typed "lovecraft nietzsche" and would only find 2 videos on youtube that pertain to what I'm looking for, aka the link between the two and how lovecraft's cosmicism might be a metaphor for the abyss etc. but those 2 videos are both excellent, 2 different people thought what I thought but cared enough to write it down and make a video about it. Today I can barely find these videos, there is a sea of AI generated videos with AI narrated text rambling on and on about lovecraft this nietzsche that to hit the 20min mark and maximize ad revenue, all this in a sea of short videos that youtube push harder and harder like multiple shorts between each 2 normal videos. Did another plateform overtake youtube? Not really.
Now some author will use AI to help with his next book, it will work and he will publish faster, then other authors will do the same, and others will optimize it more and more until most books available will be 90% written by AI, colleges will teach you AI assisted writing, and decades after that no one would even think to write a book without the help of AI.
How the hell would you explain to your publisher that you need 3 years to write the sequel when everyone else is doing it in 3 months.
It really does take the beauty out of the whole experience.
Why would I read a book that a person couldn't be bothered to write?
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Google doodles generally bring me joy and let me know about world events I wasn't aware of. I honestly can't think of a single one that annoyed me. Often it's just "oh, it looks interesting, but I don't have time to click on it now; maybe I'll look into it later"
Maybe you never ran into them when you didn't want any distractions, like while working?
There have been good discussions recently about preventing AIs from being too sycophantic. There have been some dangerous moments where LLMs would praise every idea the user has as genius, ground-breaking, and a brilliant observation. Some academics have reported a noticeable increase in the volume of crackpot emails they get daily. They're full of LLM-generated nonsense, where the AI goes along with the nonsensical…
Sycophantic AI would be like throwing dry wood into a house fire.
There have been good discussions recently about preventing AIs from being too sycophantic. There have been some dangerous moments where LLMs would praise every idea the user has as genius, ground-breaking, and a brilliant observation. Some academics have reported a noticeable increase in the volume of crackpot emails they get daily. They're full of LLM-generated nonsense, where the AI goes along with the nonsensical…
> Most of the time it's pretty harmless I think we have to stop the idea that wasting people's time at such high scale is harmless. It's not.