This sentiment gets echoed over and over. While I can certainly see the value in human-created creative works, if the subject is pure facts, there are only so many ways to state the facts without being caught in the weeds and missing your entire point.
Moreover, people are finding it hard to differentiate what is an is not AI-generated with newer models, often attributing original work with those of LLMs. It has just become an easy scapegoat for lazy comprehension and a desire to do less. You are jumping at AI boogeymen.
Just about the only thing here I can level with you on is, yes, AI is far from perfect and will continue to advance. Otherwise, so much of this reads as fruity prose to excuse apathy.
It's curious that you're pinning the blame of "excusing apathy" on the reader and not the writer. Why doesn't it go both ways? Given that producing LLM text is so cheap, your proposal amounts to an asymmetric war which is ultimately a DDOS on my finite time and attention. Or in other words: if it wasn't worth your time to write it, it's not worth my time to read it.
Let us say someone had few good ideas, and seeded them into a prompt, and after few back and forth, web searches via agent, feedback from the author, a piece of work was produced and the author decided to share it as a blog.
This is not much different than how people are producing original work LLM in areas such as math.
Would you object to reading their work because it was a byproduct of collaboration between AI/Humans? What about songs? movies? math proves? and software produces as such?
In my mind the issue isn't that it was crafted by AI, but that it wasn't crafted with the intention of getting the point across in a way that respects the reader's time or energy. The result is often needlessly wordy with information buried in a sea of flourish. This might be forgivable if the author had a certain entertaining style, but LLMs are aggressively mediocre by their nature, making wading through it painful.
Its certainly possible to get an LLM to write concise prose but thats not how most people are using them. We can talk all day on HN about the ideal LLM user that is conscientious, reviews the output, puts time and effort into stylistic concerns, etc. But none of that actually matters because thats not what people are doing; the entire reason they're using an LLM in the first place is so that they don't have to do that.
On that we agree then. I also don't want to go through mountains of tangled text written by an AI.
But what if the AI models improve their writing style considerably to match that of the best authors? which I think is plausible soon.
I feel in the near future, what really matters the most is the seed and the dialog/back and forth more than then who wrote what. And that the best content would be a by product of human/machine interaction atleast given the current generation of tech.
Until perhaps, in the the not so distant future, the math can encode our taste, judgments and develop imagination, then maybe the best human wouldn't be able to create anything better than the machine. But then again, we want to communicate the inner state of human being, because we want to build relationship, so content for consumption might be dominated by machines, but communication as way to build relationship might stay genuinely human...but even that might change, what if machines eventually become better at relationships than humans? that could be how AI truly "kill us"..I think within few decades we will discover that our intellect was a short period of cosmic evolution, and we will accept our fate as animals with analog organic intelligence that helped to bootstrap what comes next, this might be scary but humbling, and I think it's inevitable.
tygon · · focus · HN ↗
Moreover, people are finding it hard to differentiate what is an is not AI-generated with newer models, often attributing original work with those of LLMs. It has just become an easy scapegoat for lazy comprehension and a desire to do less. You are jumping at AI boogeymen.
Just about the only thing here I can level with you on is, yes, AI is far from perfect and will continue to advance. Otherwise, so much of this reads as fruity prose to excuse apathy.
Analemma_ · · focus · HN ↗
aogaili · · focus · HN ↗
Let us say someone had few good ideas, and seeded them into a prompt, and after few back and forth, web searches via agent, feedback from the author, a piece of work was produced and the author decided to share it as a blog.
This is not much different than how people are producing original work LLM in areas such as math.
Would you object to reading their work because it was a byproduct of collaboration between AI/Humans? What about songs? movies? math proves? and software produces as such?
kentm · · focus · HN ↗
In my mind the issue isn't that it was crafted by AI, but that it wasn't crafted with the intention of getting the point across in a way that respects the reader's time or energy. The result is often needlessly wordy with information buried in a sea of flourish. This might be forgivable if the author had a certain entertaining style, but LLMs are aggressively mediocre by their nature, making wading through it painful.
Its certainly possible to get an LLM to write concise prose but thats not how most people are using them. We can talk all day on HN about the ideal LLM user that is conscientious, reviews the output, puts time and effort into stylistic concerns, etc. But none of that actually matters because thats not what people are doing; the entire reason they're using an LLM in the first place is so that they don't have to do that.
aogaili · · focus · HN ↗
But what if the AI models improve their writing style considerably to match that of the best authors? which I think is plausible soon.
I feel in the near future, what really matters the most is the seed and the dialog/back and forth more than then who wrote what. And that the best content would be a by product of human/machine interaction atleast given the current generation of tech.
Until perhaps, in the the not so distant future, the math can encode our taste, judgments and develop imagination, then maybe the best human wouldn't be able to create anything better than the machine. But then again, we want to communicate the inner state of human being, because we want to build relationship, so content for consumption might be dominated by machines, but communication as way to build relationship might stay genuinely human...but even that might change, what if machines eventually become better at relationships than humans? that could be how AI truly "kill us"..I think within few decades we will discover that our intellect was a short period of cosmic evolution, and we will accept our fate as animals with analog organic intelligence that helped to bootstrap what comes next, this might be scary but humbling, and I think it's inevitable.