Aren’t we already reaching the point where AI is using content generated by other AIs, like in a game of Chinese whispers? And through osmosis it's now reaching the writings of Nobel laureates too?
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
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#12This is personal opinion anecdata, but I'm noticing the following. It's only the mediocres that rail against AI; actual geniuses are like "hey, another tool. Cool."
If you use an AI to generate all your work, then are you the genius or is the AI?
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#13Kinda interesting that more boomers embrace AI than zoomers.
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#14No comment on whether the book seems AI-generated or not, but: It is quite insidious how AI is trained on real-world writers, who then get accused of being a copy, not the original. It makes me think the future of language, at least in realms where authenticity matters, is going to be constantly changing slang, experimental structures, etc. – all things that boilerplate LLMs will never give you.
I’m glad you didn’t comment on the book no one has laid eyes upon, written in a language none of us speak!
Re:the rest, meh. People will continue to enjoy good literature — no need to performatively try to prove the unprovable. To say the least, AI is already perfectly capable of adapting new slang and of attempting “experimental structures”.
Sorry if rude. I’m glad you care about authenticity in art — on that we can all agree!
Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
#15>Olga Tokarczuk has responded to the controversy over her reputed use of AI. https://lithub.com/olga-tokarczuk-has-responded-to-the-contr... Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for anything other than research. Read it here: >After Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s recent remarks implying she had used AI to write her re…
Seems pretty reasonable!
Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
#16Aren’t we already reaching the point where AI is using content generated by other AIs, like in a game of Chinese whispers? And through osmosis it's now reaching the writings of Nobel laureates too?
Pretty hilarious how many of these comments are responding to their own headcannon of something vaguely related to AI… thems the times, I supppse!
Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
#17This is personal opinion anecdata, but I'm noticing the following. It's only the mediocres that rail against AI; actual geniuses are like "hey, another tool. Cool."
If you use an AI to generate all your work, then are you the genius or is the AI?
Nobody in this story used an AI to generate their work, and there's not much confusion about who the genius is in it.
Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
#18No comment on whether the book seems AI-generated or not, but: It is quite insidious how AI is trained on real-world writers, who then get accused of being a copy, not the original. It makes me think the future of language, at least in realms where authenticity matters, is going to be constantly changing slang, experimental structures, etc. – all things that boilerplate LLMs will never give you.
That's not what's happening here though, people didn't read her book (that's not out yet) and think it was written by AI because of the style, they think it's written by AI because of statements she made about using AI.
Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
#19>Olga Tokarczuk has responded to the controversy over her reputed use of AI. https://lithub.com/olga-tokarczuk-has-responded-to-the-contr... Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for anything other than research. Read it here: >After Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s recent remarks implying she had used AI to write her re…
What? So this whole thing is blown out of proportion? If she didn’t use LLMs to write the literal sentences then what’s the issue?
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#20This is personal opinion anecdata, but I'm noticing the following. It's only the mediocres that rail against AI; actual geniuses are like "hey, another tool. Cool."
Yeah, like Rob Pike.
I mean....
nah, I am kidding.
But I will say that accomplished names in software that also make bombastic statements against AI are people that were... "opinionated" to begin with, and skirt the line between genius and madness quite often. I am thinking names like Jon Blow.
I'd say that most of the big names probably have nuanced opinions and do their own thing rather than spending time on social media.