Mastodawn

My general dislike of AI writing has had a positive impact on how I read and listen to texts and scripts.

If I'm listening to a nature video, for example, and a sentence is empty of meaning or just illogical I turn that video off and avoid whoever made it.

Some of the things I've rejected probably weren't made by AI, but I don't see that as a bad thing.

My main issue with AI texts is I just find them kind of patronizing? You want me to sit and nicely listen but you can't be bothered to write?

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Orange Lantern

Feb 4

@futurebird Well, I like to say „if nothing else, GenAI has teached me how little people pay attention to creative work.“

They don’t notice extra fingers or floating trees, they don’t notice badly written texts.
Working in media for years I basically knew that, but LLMs hammered home the point.

If that in turn leads to people actually looking at things, it’s hard to complain, though.

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myrmepropagandist Feb 4

@orangelantern

The extra fingers don't bother me as the lack of coherence. Here is a sentence that really turned me off:

"The balance of salt and fresh water in the body of the cone snail is an essential equilibrium between concentrations of water."

????

I can infer what the training texts that made this might have said: the interesting information about how snails can survive in a salty environment while land snails are sensitive to salt. But, this is saying next to nothing.

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Abhijit Menon-Sen

@futurebird @orangelantern What you said upthread somewhere about missing out on incoherent human writing is painfully relatable. It's bad enough trying to figure out if you've misread something, missed something earlier, or if the author knew what they were talking about but made a mistake writing it, or just didn't know what they were talking about, or some combination thereof…