Professional writing has always been about throwing as many ideas out there until something catches on. You can sit there and draft over and over again, trying to write the perfect story but if it doesn’t get picked up then it doesn’t get picked up.
AI takes advantage of this. Our world already cared more about fake productivity and quantity more than quality.
If you’re an older author then you don’t really care. You can probably use your written works that are popular with AI to get a bit lazy as long as you check over everything and slip in some originality here and there. All the while you use your reputation from before AI became popular and tell people it isn’t AI.
Meanwhile new authors have to deal with all the AI content that’s out there, content that is constantly being made at a rate faster than anything they can put out.
This isn’t a defense. This is just me pointing out that this isn’t going away on its own.
Edit: After reading the comments I see what the issue is and I’m just really disappointed. Turns out, AI is only bad when it’s invading your hobbies. It’s apparently okay to cheat by using it for your professional life whenever possible.
This isn’t a defense. This is just me pointing out that this isn’t going away on its own.
Except it totally is going away on its own. Degenerative AI in all its forms is profoundly unprofitable. The whole “AI” sphere out there right now is a circle-jerking, obfuscated Ponzi scheme. The basic problem is unassailable: it costs more to use degenerative AI than anybody is willing to pay for it. So literally every AI company right now is bleeding cash like crazy, and the one AI-adjacent company that is on the books turning record profits is using accounting trickery to make it look like that; one that’s predicated on the assumption that 100% of its account receivables will actually pay off.
Protip: none of its account receivables from the AI firms is going to pay off.
If I’m wrong, if you think my comment is stupid then why don’t you prove it?
I’ll happily edit my own comment with sources if you’d like. I think it’s common knowledge that most writers don’t break out on their first published work though and that even afterwards most authors gain most of their revenue from backlist and back in print titles overall. Actually, I have the sources ready now if you’d like them.
My point was not to say this is a good thing but to point out that there is absolutely an incentive to cheat this way.
Starting to think about a Neu-Amish movement where we just stop with tech advancements post 2020 and live like it’s 2019 again. Shit, I’ll give up LTE and 5g to live in a world without social media.
If I need someone to generate slop and feed it to slop-eaters, I’ll hire someone to do it so I don’t have to be involved with any of them.
Starting to think about a Neu-Amish movement where we just stop with tech advancements post 2020 and live like it’s 2019 again. Shit, I’ll give up LTE and 5g to live in a world without social media.
With the prices of hardware recently, I think we’re headed towards re-using old tech for a long time. I’m a professional programmer, and I’m still on my machine from 2018 with no fucking chance of upgrade for the forseeable future. Not even fucking ram. I was going to upgrade to 32gb , but ram prices skyrocketed right when I was about to buy some.
Join us! Your skills can help us wrest back control of modern smart appliances so that they operate with buttons rather than IoT. I’m sure someone in the community will swap you some RAM for your work. I just grabbed a new PC before I saw everything going to crap, and my 2016 machine is still kicking…
Is it really that crazy?
Professional writing has always been about throwing as many ideas out there until something catches on. You can sit there and draft over and over again, trying to write the perfect story but if it doesn’t get picked up then it doesn’t get picked up.
AI takes advantage of this. Our world already cared more about fake productivity and quantity more than quality.
If you’re an older author then you don’t really care. You can probably use your written works that are popular with AI to get a bit lazy as long as you check over everything and slip in some originality here and there. All the while you use your reputation from before AI became popular and tell people it isn’t AI.
Meanwhile new authors have to deal with all the AI content that’s out there, content that is constantly being made at a rate faster than anything they can put out.
This isn’t a defense. This is just me pointing out that this isn’t going away on its own.
Edit: After reading the comments I see what the issue is and I’m just really disappointed. Turns out, AI is only bad when it’s invading your hobbies. It’s apparently okay to cheat by using it for your professional life whenever possible.
Except it totally is going away on its own. Degenerative AI in all its forms is profoundly unprofitable. The whole “AI” sphere out there right now is a circle-jerking, obfuscated Ponzi scheme. The basic problem is unassailable: it costs more to use degenerative AI than anybody is willing to pay for it. So literally every AI company right now is bleeding cash like crazy, and the one AI-adjacent company that is on the books turning record profits is using accounting trickery to make it look like that; one that’s predicated on the assumption that 100% of its account receivables will actually pay off.
Protip: none of its account receivables from the AI firms is going to pay off.
Jesus fucking Christ.
If I’m wrong, if you think my comment is stupid then why don’t you prove it?
I’ll happily edit my own comment with sources if you’d like. I think it’s common knowledge that most writers don’t break out on their first published work though and that even afterwards most authors gain most of their revenue from backlist and back in print titles overall. Actually, I have the sources ready now if you’d like them.
My point was not to say this is a good thing but to point out that there is absolutely an incentive to cheat this way.
A full-speed race to the bottom!
Starting to think about a Neu-Amish movement where we just stop with tech advancements post 2020 and live like it’s 2019 again. Shit, I’ll give up LTE and 5g to live in a world without social media.
If I need someone to generate slop and feed it to slop-eaters, I’ll hire someone to do it so I don’t have to be involved with any of them.
With the prices of hardware recently, I think we’re headed towards re-using old tech for a long time. I’m a professional programmer, and I’m still on my machine from 2018 with no fucking chance of upgrade for the forseeable future. Not even fucking ram. I was going to upgrade to 32gb , but ram prices skyrocketed right when I was about to buy some.
Join us! Your skills can help us wrest back control of modern smart appliances so that they operate with buttons rather than IoT. I’m sure someone in the community will swap you some RAM for your work. I just grabbed a new PC before I saw everything going to crap, and my 2016 machine is still kicking…