I've judged a number of contests as a literary editor and now work on a publishing project that incorporates AI--a product that uses AI to find and share _human_ writing. Here's what I'm (currently) certain about:
1) There was already near-infinite levels of "content" slop
2) There's now even more infinite levels of "content" slop
3) Because of how AI is built, it's inherently "backwards-looking" and focused on "generality" and thus not meant or able to be truly "creative"
In any wine critic ,I want originality,attitude as long as it is tempered with some empathy, humour,an ability to tell a good story and to communicate in well turned sentences.
AI may give the correct answer ,but the words are leaden and joyless.
I welcome good wine writers into my inbox because they are reliable and I trust their judgement.
Here an example of a well turned sentence:: Wine is merely a pause on the journey from grape juice to vinegar.
Generated by me and not a Bot.
I try to aspire to the late great Clive James whose weekly TV column in the Observer was a master at the top of his game.
Love this. I use Chatgpt to name and give me metadata search keyword tags for my surface pattern designs (the names need to basically be all metadata keywords to be found). I’m designing sometimes 50 fabric/wallpapers a week and cannot possibly name them all and figure out tags as my portfolio inches closer to 2000 designs I’d never stop. So I let AI do the thing for me. But outside of that I really want nothing to do with it. You can spot AI a mile away still.
I've judged a number of contests as a literary editor and now work on a publishing project that incorporates AI--a product that uses AI to find and share _human_ writing. Here's what I'm (currently) certain about:
1) There was already near-infinite levels of "content" slop
2) There's now even more infinite levels of "content" slop
3) Because of how AI is built, it's inherently "backwards-looking" and focused on "generality" and thus not meant or able to be truly "creative"
4) At least at this point, I don't see any indication that AI is going to reach a level of creativity and inspiration that leads to a moment of singularity/individuality (https://www.routledge.com/The-Singularity-of-Literature/Attridge/p/book/9781138701274) OR that anyone's really working to do that
5) It's a lot of fun to have Claude generate funny poems quickly to share for occasional jokes
Thanks Andrew. Interesting points.
I sincerely hope, wish and believe that you are right: how can bunch of diodes (or whatever the fuck they are) actually create?
In any wine critic ,I want originality,attitude as long as it is tempered with some empathy, humour,an ability to tell a good story and to communicate in well turned sentences.
AI may give the correct answer ,but the words are leaden and joyless.
I welcome good wine writers into my inbox because they are reliable and I trust their judgement.
Here an example of a well turned sentence:: Wine is merely a pause on the journey from grape juice to vinegar.
Generated by me and not a Bot.
I try to aspire to the late great Clive James whose weekly TV column in the Observer was a master at the top of his game.
Love this. I use Chatgpt to name and give me metadata search keyword tags for my surface pattern designs (the names need to basically be all metadata keywords to be found). I’m designing sometimes 50 fabric/wallpapers a week and cannot possibly name them all and figure out tags as my portfolio inches closer to 2000 designs I’d never stop. So I let AI do the thing for me. But outside of that I really want nothing to do with it. You can spot AI a mile away still.
There's definitely some things that it's useful for. I think at the moment, people are using to it to create oceans of guff that nobody will read.
'Oceans of guff'. I thought I had told you the name of my next novel in the strictest of confidence! 😂
I totally agree with you there!
Splendid piece.
Thank you Helen!