Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT

bob_wiley , 10 months ago

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Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago

I’ve been trying to make GPT write cool stories for me. As long as it’s short enough to fit on a single sheet of paper, you’re good. If it’s short story spanning 5-50 pages, you’re going to run into a whole bunch of weird issues that basically turn you from a reader to an editor.

You can make GPT write stuff for you, but it takes a surprising amount of time to get what you want. Some times I feel like I’m telling a horse to plow a field, but the horse feels like zigzagging all over the place. If you want neat lines that cover the entire field, you’re going to have to hold its hand at every turn.

orca , 10 months ago

If we permeate everything with AI writing, eventually AI is going to find and use its own (or another AI’s) writings as a resource and just get perpetually more shitty over time. Capitalists are quick to strip everything of its human touch if it nets them another fat pay rise. It’s enshittification via AI with the help of overpaid suits.

vacuumflower , 10 months ago

Here, that’s what I wanted to say in my other comment, really put in simpler words.

grabyourmotherskeys , 10 months ago

AI writing will be wanted more or less depending on what is being written, the context, the quality, and the audience. It is here now. If it is better, people will consume it. You might have a favorite AI writer for cyberpunk adventure but prefer a human written autobiography.

vacuumflower , 10 months ago

Maybe because there’s that concept of entropy in Markovian processes. Or in simpler words - the bigger share AI-created stuff holds in the whole corpus of texts we read and use, the more degenerate they become over time.

Eh, guess, this doesn’t look simpler, but I’m just clumsy with words. The general idea is clear, I hope.

grabyourmotherskeys , 10 months ago

It is.

otl , 10 months ago

the more degenerate they become over time.

To clarify, by “they” do you mean the language models?

vacuumflower , 10 months ago

Both them and the texts they produce which in turn are used for learning.

otl , 10 months ago

Thanks. I see what you mean. When I first started reading about the topic someone brought up low-background steel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steelGrim but relevant topic!

vacuumflower , 10 months ago

Yes, it’s interesting. Especially since language and symbolics and text are somewhat more important for humanity than steel.