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Phillip Carter's avatar

Thanks for all the love for recent posts Meenaz!

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John Coon's avatar

As long as AI doesn't conquer the world and force us all to build a death ray to destroy a planet I've never heard of, I plan to ignore it and do what I do best. AI-written fiction can't compete with ingenuity and soul of human-written fiction.

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Phillip Carter's avatar

I agree. It's a chasm far wider than the gap between Mcdonalds nuggets and restaurant food. That chasm barely even covers it. Until we get biologically based computers, AI will lag behind us. It's not that smart.

What's incredibly dangerous is people thinking it is smart, and giving it deciding power over what they consume, which shapes who they are.

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Mandi's avatar

Never - i feel that there would be no soul in an AI written book nothing can replace a human written book, the passion and imagination alone.....

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Phillip Carter's avatar

You're competely right there. The people who would buy AI writing are a noisy minority, and I don't feel I've 'lost' their custom because as an author, those sorts weren't in my target audience anyway. I want to get people thinking and laughing, and low quality literature can do neither.

Imagination is an important point, as AI just blends existing things without any intention behind doing so. I liken it to a painter painting with blends of existing colours, then outsourcing her job to a machine that spins all the paint together, puts the canvas through a lawnmower, and then presents the resulting paste as a final piece.

Thanks for the comment Mandi, you've made this human author feel a bit more confident about his chances of paying his bills!

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