Kelly McCulloughMay 28, 2023

I’m not concerned about AI outcompeting competent writers or impacting my career directly. I am deeply concerned about AI swamping submission systems and destroying the ability of editors and readers to find the next generation of writers.

AI is very much a danger to the long term health of the field not because of competition for quality readable fiction but because of its ability to create dreck in previously unimaginable quantities and drown submission systems and indie publishing in shit.

Show threadWampus
@KellyMcC Candidly, some of the fiction being produced by humans is formulaic, AI-level dreck. Those writers should worry because they *are* replaceable. The worry isn’t that AI will create great art; it’s that AI will create art that comes across enough like something elevated that it can fool most of the people most of the time. It’s not good, but what if nobody notices?
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Show threadKelly McCulloughMay 28, 2023
@wampusmm repeating myself from elsewhere: Sturgeon’s Law postulates that 90% of everything is crap. I don’t agree, but in terms of scale lets call that number sound. What AI potentially does is create so much new crap without new gems such that we hit 99.999999% of everything is crap. That is a very different and entirely new problem.

I could see how that might create a world where can’t differentiate, but I think that’s less likely than simply being unable to find the good stuff.