There's still hope. Remember interactive movies? People really thought everybody was gonna wanna make choices watching them. Turned out, that's not what anybody wanted. It wasn't even successful in porn.
I have hope they're once again guessing about entertainment, and they're just plain wrong.
Nope. The goal is to put creatives out of work, in the hopes that it will force us to play the game of life by the fixed rules and metrics of the mediocre. That's why they don't care about "quality".
I read a lot of student writing. I had hoped that AI would have a "Starbucks effect" and raise the weakest up to at least a characterless mediocrity. It has not happened.
This is why I am sceptical that the future of books is AI-authored: we already have a massive oversupply of text, so whatever problems publishing may have, AI offers a solution to one that doesn’t exist
The pitch (False prophecy? Siren song?) is “custom written books, on demand, to satisfy individual interests”. It won’t matter that they’re dog-shit if the marketers can convince buyers this is what they want and it’s Just. For. Them.
It may work on easily impressed VCs but I don’t see it working on actual consumers, although there may be a limited market for it as a fun kriskindle solution
whether it actually comes to be in the future is irrelevant. The fact is there are people who ALREADY think they’re going to get custom books (and movies and games) on demand. And it is tiring to deal with them.
Point is, there doesn’t actually have to exist a demand for something, only that the people who fund it _believe_ that there is a need and that they go on tv and say “this is how the future will be”, to create some demand, even if it’s nowhere near what the VCs imagine.
From the small cadre of people that profit off selling reams and reams of writing (or as they call it, “content”), but only if they don’t have to pay a human a living wage for it, yes. From everyone else, no.
Terrible HR corporate speak is about the only useful purpose I see for LLMs. Writing that badly is hard. And as all resumes for job applications are reviewed by an algorithm before being seen by a human now, might as well write them with one.
If there’s one thing this sick, twisted world ain't got enough of, it’s the written word. You ever stare at a blank page and think "Shit, this would look good with some sexy, thicc words.”
The computers thought the same and now they're here.
Puking out word slop, non stop.
Forever and ever.
not about increased demand.
Like much of "Let's AI Everything" movement, it's about getting supply for FREE so certain folks can make more money.
This devaluation started 20 yrs ago.
Nowadays anyone w/a computing device believes they can write professionally.
AI just skips the human.
The worst thing to happen to legal writing was the word processor. Now people could write long, meandering opinions and briefs with minimal extra effort.
As the reams grow exponentially our poor brains shut down because of overload. If we only realised that most of the writings are repetitions and rip-offs of earlier stuff. So, I say, read less but spend the same amount of time reading more intensely.
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I have hope they're once again guessing about entertainment, and they're just plain wrong.
They use AI to sort the resumes for the right words and phrases. Then use a different AI to find the candidates who hid using AI the best
"Most large-scale AI deployments are housed in data centres, including those operated by cloud service providers. These data centres...take a heavy toll on the planet. The electronics they house rely on a staggering amount...of raw materials"
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about
And that is to take money away from humans who can and give it to other humans who can't, but have a lot of money already.
If it's so great, why hasn't AI solved the housing crisis? Or poverty? Or just poverty in America? Climate change?
Whoah... so innovative
The computers thought the same and now they're here.
Puking out word slop, non stop.
Forever and ever.
Like much of "Let's AI Everything" movement, it's about getting supply for FREE so certain folks can make more money.
This devaluation started 20 yrs ago.
Nowadays anyone w/a computing device believes they can write professionally.
AI just skips the human.
AI is going to make it so much worse.
The Bible. Star Wars. The Matrix. Harry Potter. Excalibur. (I'm just using movies. I'm a movie cat). Wonder Woman. Handcock.