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cleaning up the ai slop
1226 sats \ 2 comments \ @unschooled 20 Jul the_stacker_muse
Mr. Goia has a relatively bullish (he'd be more so if he ever visited this territory) stance on creativity during this time when a maniacal propagation of ai slop overcomes feeds on social media.
i'd agree with his take here from high-level, even though he might have a less optimistic view on creativity in general. ai is a technology, and although it is quite impressive, there's never been a technology to my understanding that has ever quenched humans' thirst for the spectacular and novel. nor do i believe there ever will be. call me a purist, but how can ai ever do something like this--and even if they could manage it, i'm sure it would be much less interesting.
spectacular: adj. of the nature of a spectacle; impressive or sensational. novel: adj. of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
i've never once heard anyone call an ai generated piece of work, spectacular. "weird," or "strange" or "fucked-up" are much more likely adjectives.
when i read something, i want it to be original. when i write something, i usually want it to be something that somebody (at at least I) would want to read.
drinking from the infinite fount of SN wisdom, i am becoming ever more convinced that the singulatarian doomers are probably about as wrong as everyone else saying the end is nigh.
i've said it here before, but i am much more concerned about the problem of self-regulation that arises from ai algorithms. human complacency is the real threat.
the end is not nigh, it is right here and now baby, so get our your pens + paper and make something original!
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279 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 20 Jul
"Why so serious?" the Joker asks. "Why so serious?"
I feel a little bit like the Joker, wanting to ask Mr Goia: "You want to know how I learned how to write?...Why so threatened?"
I write like I do because I've had access to the cultural firehose of the internet. My writing is shaped by the tools I use: even though I hand write (on paper) most of my stuff, the ability to speedily check allusive connections is fundamental to how I write. Before me, authors had to have a good library and, before that, a good memory.
So now, ai tools let people turn ideas into reality without any craft (or not much more craft than prompt engineering).
Quil and parchment -> pen and paper -> typewriter and ribbon -> keyboard and word processor -> prompt and llm. It seems like a continuum to me. Each new tool can be used well or badly. But any tool can always be used to produce art.
People like Mr Goia (and Mr Beato) seem to feel that this ai stuff is not on the continuum of tools we have all been using, but rather something new.
I have yet to hear the convincing argument for what makes llms so different from the rest of the tools we use.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @unschooled OP 20 Jul
i'm glad you took it there. it is along these lines i had been been thinking about it:
Each new tool can be used well or badly. But any tool can always be used to produce art.
... but had been unable to put it as elegantly.
then again, every new era needs 'bad art' so critics like Goia can eat too, right?
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