I am so with you about AI. People are sleep walking into its trap. When I see an AI image, I fly past it. I do the same if I know the writing has been generated by AI. AI is not harmless. It's soul-killing.
I feel very pessimistic. I think AI is here to stay. I just see AI "content" creeping up everywhere. And there is some AI art that I like. Songs have sounded very out of the chain for a very long time. Maybe poetry is the last refuge? Better not risk it.
The answer to your questions: No, no, and (almost) no. I did say something to a FB friend once about an AI post; specifically: "why are these absurdly lengthy AI-generated FB posts suddenly so popular? I move on after about the second paragraph." And indeed, I guess it wasn't the content per se that bugged me as much as bizarre notion that I would be interested in reading twenty or thirty grade-school-repetitive sentences with content suitable for two or three. (I also *detest* their style. I think I'd take solitary confinement over being forced to read that style all day.)
But I guess this is a bit like US politics (as in: the thing at the top we love to lambast is not as important as the realization that millions of people like him). What has happened to our educational process and accepted social values that mediocre regurgitation of average writing is acceptable to so many people?
No simple answer, of course, but here is one thought. In the days of newspapers, a Letter to the Editor had to compete with hundreds of others for one of the four or five slots available. You spent time composing it (as I just did this one!). We don't have to do that for social media.
Social media is a form of gossip, period. And gossip is a normal and respectable part of life. But it isn't where serious discussion takes place, yet that's what we've made it - even formal government communications (not only DJ's verbal vomit!) goes on Twitter. I think AI may be just another step on the race to the bottom.
You are so right. It is a race to the bottom in so many ways. AI may not be the foundational culprit (after all, it does have its good uses as well) but it has become the vehicle for many deeper issues.
I am so with you about AI. People are sleep walking into its trap. When I see an AI image, I fly past it. I do the same if I know the writing has been generated by AI. AI is not harmless. It's soul-killing.
Mary (and Angelica) must be rolling over in their graves...
Yes, sadly.
Infuriating.
I feel very pessimistic. I think AI is here to stay. I just see AI "content" creeping up everywhere. And there is some AI art that I like. Songs have sounded very out of the chain for a very long time. Maybe poetry is the last refuge? Better not risk it.
The answer to your questions: No, no, and (almost) no. I did say something to a FB friend once about an AI post; specifically: "why are these absurdly lengthy AI-generated FB posts suddenly so popular? I move on after about the second paragraph." And indeed, I guess it wasn't the content per se that bugged me as much as bizarre notion that I would be interested in reading twenty or thirty grade-school-repetitive sentences with content suitable for two or three. (I also *detest* their style. I think I'd take solitary confinement over being forced to read that style all day.)
But I guess this is a bit like US politics (as in: the thing at the top we love to lambast is not as important as the realization that millions of people like him). What has happened to our educational process and accepted social values that mediocre regurgitation of average writing is acceptable to so many people?
No simple answer, of course, but here is one thought. In the days of newspapers, a Letter to the Editor had to compete with hundreds of others for one of the four or five slots available. You spent time composing it (as I just did this one!). We don't have to do that for social media.
Social media is a form of gossip, period. And gossip is a normal and respectable part of life. But it isn't where serious discussion takes place, yet that's what we've made it - even formal government communications (not only DJ's verbal vomit!) goes on Twitter. I think AI may be just another step on the race to the bottom.
You are so right. It is a race to the bottom in so many ways. AI may not be the foundational culprit (after all, it does have its good uses as well) but it has become the vehicle for many deeper issues.