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.
@thecharmingcompany @KellyMcC one doesn't need a machine to be intelligent, just the ability to emulate such.
Which is precisely the point we have reached.
As technology advances, emulation will far outstrip actual intelligence, of which, humanity (on average) seems to have a hard enough time demonstrating itself.
It was only a few years ago, that people were saying that AI wouldn't be creative, that out of all the jobs threatened, artists and writers would be unaffected.
That didn't last long.
Imagine where things will be in another few years.
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