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[dhampyresa]

I was reminded to ask about this by a locked post and schneefink's recent post.

I have opinions about using AI [1] to produce stories and/or visual work, but they're not as supported/sourced/considered as I want them to be.

So I ask: What are your opinions? Have you read/watched/listened/etc to anything you thought was interesting on the subject, even ones you don't agree with?


[1] It's machine-learning, dammit.

Comments

[china_shop]

You don't think there'll always be a place for human curation? Idk. At the moment, ChatGPT is (in my very limited experience) producing stuff that's not very good, so there's an obvious niche there for someone to generate a ton, pick out some good ones and post them (ideally NOT to AO3!!), and for that curated content to be a bit like a tumblr feed.

In the longer run, even if machine learning can reliably produce "good"/satisfying stories, I feel like that just means our expectations will go up. There could still potentially be a blog or platform or whatever where people post a daily "best of". And people will read some of them and go, "Huh, what's so great about machines? I mean, I could have written that." You know?

It's a bit like digital photography, maybe? There are now a billion billion photos in the world (I'm guesstimating), and most of them represent reality very impressively/convincingly, but that doesn't mean every one of them is interesting to look at (especially out of context). Or that they're interchangeable. And the idea of sorting through for an interesting one is... I mean, I really appreciate other people going to that trouble so I don't have to!