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1. keiferski · 1790255905 · focus · HN ↗

   In the world of arts/media, I think AI basically only has a future as a hidden thing. Openly admitting that you used AI to make something will be used against you, in order to dismiss your work. For a lot of people/things, it already is - see Hank Green, or the daily comments about "I don't want to read what you didn't write."

   Expect a massive marketing reversal in 6-12 months, when every "AI-powered" company removes the keyword from their home page.

   1. grey-area · 1790315967 · focus · HN ↗

      It’s not your work if you used AI.

      1. geysersam · 1790332401 · focus · HN ↗

         Ridiculous. Whose work is it then? That's like saying the python script you wrote is not your work, because almost all of the hard work was done by the engineers who wrote cpython or GCC.

         1. everyday7732 · 1790341430 · focus · HN ↗

            There are degrees to this thing.

            On the one end - somebody writing a book alone with a pen and paper, about an idea they had in a dream. Whilst they didn't make the book from nothing (somebody else created the pen and paper, somebody taught them how to write and structure a story, they are just using them to write a book) This is very clearly the work of that one person.

            On the other extreme, imagine a wealthy person hires a writer to write a book. They specify that it should be about unicorns but nothing more. Let's imagine that they haven't even read the book yet. Can the wealthy person claim "I wrote this"? Most people would say no. They caused the book to be written, but didn't actually write it.

            In my mind, asking an LLM to create something for you is more like the second example than the first, but there isn't a hard line between those two. I can think of plenty of examples which sit between the extremes (spellcheck, proof-readers, collaborative projects, re-tellings of existing stories). LLMs are in this space. You could have an idea for the book and lay out notes and chapter outlines and more, and have the LLM bring it together. Did you write the book? Who can say? Investigate it hard enough and the question becomes meaningless.

            1. geysersam · 1790371273 · focus · HN ↗

               I agree. If you used the AI and didn't bring anything of your own into it. Didn't make any adjustments, didn't follow your own ideas and vision. If you just write two sentences and waited one hour, fine, it's not your work. But most AI work today is not that. People spend hours, prompting and tweaking. It's a tool like any other.

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