dhampyresa

The Ezra Klein Show (a podcast, available wherever, transcripts on the NYT site) has been covering AI a lot over the last few months, talking with a lot of guests who are involved with AI/large language models etc, and I've found them super interesting. One point that was made (by Adrian Tchaikovsky, SF author) is that creators make things because they like to make things, and that joy in creation is not going to go away, so therefore, people are going to continue to write and create art even if AI-type things are producing stories and art. And that part of the joy of creation is that it's a conversation with the audience, and so readers approach stories written by people they know (and can have dialog with) differently from those written by people who are harder to dialog with (like pro writers, when you'd have to write them a letter), differently from those written by people who are no longer living (like Voltaire). The reader/viewer brings part of the conversation to the table and so that will be different for machine-created works.