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Would publishers be willing to go to the level of pulling a Milli Vanilli where they hire people to make appearances as the author? Or would a litmus test to see if an author has attended any book signings be valid?
That sounds like a cost of doing business so the question is whether using this method increases profit more than any other.
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People are allowed to reject things and we've seen the public around the world overwhelming reject LLMs, what SV + VC doesn't like are being told no (shocker). Honestly believe they would rather destroy the planet than be forced to help others, which tracks seeing what you hear coming out of the mouths of these supposed "leaders" (deeply anti-human + anti-democratic sentiment). It's no wonder they are worried for the…
> and we've seen the public around the world overwhelming reject LLMs Have we? Where do you see people rejecting them?
Refusing data centers is a truly bipartisan issue where you even have say republican activists in Texas [1] vowing to vote for Talerico because of his anti-AI stances. It's definitely the easiest layup if you're running for office this cycle.
There's a book that recently came out that discusses these stories in detail:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/
You can only harass, poison, and kill a population for so long before they break then fight back. It's only going to get worse too as communities are making life even harder for people already on the knife's edge.
This is all easily preventable too but we see how tech leaders respond to being told no or forced to pay taxes to provide welfare services to communities.
[1] https://therealnews.com/data-centers-are-not-a-red-state-or-...
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People are allowed to reject things and we've seen the public around the world overwhelming reject LLMs, what SV + VC doesn't like are being told no (shocker). Honestly believe they would rather destroy the planet than be forced to help others, which tracks seeing what you hear coming out of the mouths of these supposed "leaders" (deeply anti-human + anti-democratic sentiment). It's no wonder they are worried for the…
Right now, most people are more than happy slurping in the slop. The push back is only in niche corners of the interwebs. Even the obvious issues with slop like "count the fingers" level of issues are being used for entertainment and embraced rather than rejection. So there's no real pressure to fix things with the slop generators. So many people are oblivious to the content they are consuming is slop or not bothered…
Majority of artists hate it. Celebrities routinely comment how much they hate it. It's become a punchline to describe anything that sucks.
I'm sorry but force feeding something that is deeply unpopular ain't working. If it was, companies like OpenAI + Anthropic wouldn't be trying to so hard to expand their fill of corporate welfare.
You're in a bubble, like most of tech.
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It started as a bit of curiosity: Can AI write good fiction? Can I create a process that produces better fiction? Will Anthropic even let me write porn? How do different models do? It was another outlet to explore using AI outside of my 9-5 programming. I've experimented with building custom agents to write stories, custom memory storage methods, custom workflows, etc. I've also used AI to write content management sy…
I take such a joy in putting words together that I cannot imagine even thinking about doing something like this.
Which group of leaders do tech workers at big tech look up to again?
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I take such a joy in putting words together that I cannot imagine even thinking about doing something like this.
It's easy, you just have to hate the human experience. It's not hard to connect the dots either when you have noted friend of Epstein, Peter Thiel, openly struggling on whether the human race should exist or not. Which group of leaders do tech workers at big tech look up to again?
My experiments with AI writing are additive. Nothing I do with AI prevents human writers from writing.
I do think there's an argument that AI floods the field and makes human writing harder to find, and overall diminishes the commons.
But I want to provide value and am trying to with my experiments. The market will decide over time.
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Right now, most people are more than happy slurping in the slop. The push back is only in niche corners of the interwebs. Even the obvious issues with slop like "count the fingers" level of issues are being used for entertainment and embraced rather than rejection. So there's no real pressure to fix things with the slop generators. So many people are oblivious to the content they are consuming is slop or not bothered…
Who in slurping the slop here? Do you talk to people? I've been doing deep canvassing for the last 2 years. One common element seen across country are American's complete utter hatred of these companies. Majority of artists hate it. Celebrities routinely comment how much they hate it. It's become a punchline to describe anything that sucks. I'm sorry but force feeding something that is deeply unpopular ain't working.…
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We are going to go back to human-only networks for filtering the garbage into a trusted set of recommendations. Maybe where the only music you can trust are local artists you can see live. Or where the books you read are from a friend-of-a-friend who knows the author. Maybe the world of tomorrow looks more like the world we left behind.
I think 100% of the books I've read in the last year have been recommendations from friends. This is kind of annoying as I'd like to be able to give them recommendations in return, but ... limited time. I wish that I could doomscroll literature instead of short videos, but the economics apparently don't work out.
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It tells you that human attention can be gamed.
Sure, and I feel something for the authors who are in it to write a high-quality novel. For the authors who are in it for the game, writing bottom of the barrel airport checkout line garbage, they were already trying to game people’s attention and they lost to a robot.
I expect I'll get a lot of hate for this, and potentially deservedly so, but I've been doing something similar since late last year when Opus came out. > Because romance sells, the professors thought it would be the genre most susceptible to A.I. intervention, but instead it was nonfiction... I've been working mostly in erotica but have shifted to some nonfiction series lately. I stopped for a while, but Fable and GP…
> If anyone is curious, I'd be happy to talk about any of it.
So you've spent $750 to publish AI slop.
I guess my question is... why? Why are you doing this? Like, what do you get out of it?
> "Two business school professors, curious about A.I. books and whether anyone actually likes them, gathered data about 10 million books published on Amazon over the last five years. They found that the number of e-books published per month had tripled since the release of ChatGPT, to more than 300,000 at the end of last year, from around 100,000 in 2022. (Amazon said that its internal metrics did not show that level…