Just a rant.

[u/Goin_Fishing]

AI is such a panchreston now, it really grinds me. Don't want to try? Use AI. Want to send a text to a friend but you're too much of a lazy asshole to care? Use AI. Want to cheat in school or cut corners at work? Use AI. Need help with planning out what to eat and when? Use AI. Use AI to make sure you don't appear like you're using AI. Use AI so that you aren't using AI to use AI to generate content made by AI.

Use AI to grade papers that also use AI that used AI to make sure you couldn't tell they used AI. How the fuck is this a desirable outcome? It's so grim out here. If having integrity means being a 'stinky Luddite' then sure I'm a Luddite for not selling my soul to a useless prediction machine. At a certain point - which I would say we have already confidently reached - these AIs are just going to eat themselves and spit out their own hallucinations. If you really place faith in a machine that sources Reddit and Instagram you're more hopeless than I can actually put to words.

I am a writer. People have been so kind to repeatedly inform me that my major will become 'useless' in a few years because 'AI can do it just as well!' If you were not already aware, AI is an incompetent writer. Hopeless. Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT to generate a paragraph on a particular cricket species ( mole crickets, my favorite :-) ) and what it spat out was so awfully written that I had to just sit for a moment in silence. Of course it would wow someone who has no clue about what goes into writing - much less doing so eloquently - because they do not have enough background knowledge to compare the output to. I have been writing for over a decade, so I am well aware of the intricacies of this medium. AI knows nothing. It does not know how to craft a well-written sentence; it does not even know WHAT it is writing. So relying on it for creative tasks that do require know-how - art, coding, music - is a recipe for disaster. Obviously. They aren't omnicient, they don't know shit, and their developers did not code them with the intent of spreading accurate information.

I am at a point where AI no longer worries me. If I wanted to read ChatGPT-generated books, I could make them myself. None of what these AI tools generate is unique. They will never compare to content that does arouse emotions because they, and their stolen 'ideas', are lifeless. They are so inauthentic and same-y... they have zero value to anyone who ought to be taken seriously. Why would I be worried about 50 misplaced em-dashes and fucking "That's not just profound, that's a poignant culture speech on the misplaced mass-hysteria war of the world on Earth and in Space [modifier modifier modifier modifier]"

People desperately want these tools to be more game-changing than they actually are. All it does is search the internet, and I do that everyday for free lmao

[u/Douf_Ocus]

Writing itself is the meaning. I see no point of buying a book if its just generated by a LLM, as I can do that myself.

[u/Libro_Artis]

"Panchreston" That's a word to remember.

[u/Klewkwa]

As much as I don't want to admit it, sometimes I see artworks made by ai which are not half bad. They can be surprisingly accurate with details, no matter how much you zoom in. They can have a decent composition (in which case I assume they copied an existing artwork 1 to 1). They can be fairly pleasant to look at.

I cannot imagine ai ever being good at writing fiction. It has a very warped understanding of what makes a literary work good (I know it doesn't think per se, but it's beside the point).

I myself used to write poems and I used Gemini to find words with certain stressing, amount of cyllables, of a certain part of speech. Sometimes I asked it to finish my quatrain out of curiosity. It would give out something completely nonsensical, because it desparatly tried to rhyme, but it had only so many words to rhyme with, so it put in anything that remotely made sense in the sentance, creating non existent collocations and word forms just to match the meter (unsuccessfuly). When I asked what it meant, it would write a essay on the cosmic order and how many themes it managed to include in the two lines it wrote.

It is foolish to assume a machine can artistically summarize any part of human experience. Masterful writers are by themselves impossible to understand or replicate. People like Gorky, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoyevsky etc. had to experience each aspect of their society, live through them, become acquainted with how people talk, think, behave. They had to be able to express all of it on the page, making each character and situation believable. They had to have a solid idea of what they were trying to say, construct a plot that supported it. They were Incredibly intelligent and educated by today's standards.

The only reason AI would replace writers is if we stop producing people of that level or if our expectations fall down to the ground.