From one piece Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art 11 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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One is to take an average of the choices that other writers have made, as represented by text found on the Internet; that average is equivalent to the least interesting choices possible, which is why A.I.-generated text is often really bland.
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korrents.com
Generative AI appeals to people who want to express themselves in a medium without working in it.Their words
Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.
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The selling point of generative A.I. is that these programs generate vastly more than you put into them, and that is precisely what prevents them from being effective tools for artists.
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It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.
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The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read.
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korrents.com
A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate.Their words
But a large language model is not a writer; it’s not even a user of language. Language is, by definition, a system of communication, and it requires an intention to communicate.
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korrents.com
Writing that deserves a reader's attention is always the product of effort by the person who wrote it.Their words
Let me offer another generalization: any writing that deserves your attention as a reader is the result of effort expended by the person who wrote it.
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Believing that inspiration outweighs everything else is, I suspect, a sign that someone is unfamiliar with the medium.
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What I’m saying is that art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-scale choices made during implementation are just as important to the final product as the few large-scale choices made during the conception.
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korrents.com
Art is what results from making an enormous number of choices, and a prompt contains almost none of them.Their words
But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices.
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What you create doesn’t have to be utterly unlike every prior piece of art in human history to be valuable; the fact that you’re the one who is saying it, the fact that it derives from your unique life experience and arrives at a particular moment in the life of whoever is seeing your work, is what makes it new.