Ugh! What a Day!
Richard Littler"I had sex with a piglet I stole. People *must* accept that this is the future of interpersonal relationships... Right?"
Petra van Cronenburg@Richard_Littler This opinion piece is good for a hot debate. But I find this question important for every #writer: "Once upon a time, mastery of the banal was adequate for writers. It was enough to prove that you were capable of writing. But that skill has no purpose any more – it can be automated. Skill will be found in the purpose of the work. What can you alone make happen with language?"
#writing #writingcommunity #writers #writerslife #aiSlop #authors #bookstodon
Emma Cox@NatureMC @Richard_Littler I wonder if we'll see a shift in writing styles as writers innovate and create new styles which the plagiarising machines have yet to have been fed.
astroPug@Emmacox @NatureMC @Richard_Littler
Yes, and my guess is that process will happen even faster than before, and in many cases, without conscious effort.
If you see the same thing repeated often as a reader, you get tired of it much faster, so you will avoid it in writing the way you absentmindedly dodge neighbors on the sidewalk.
@astroPug @NatureMC @Richard_Littler You might be right. Perhaps we'll also fall back on older writing styles and words which have fallen out of fashion, too.
Personally, I'm reading more older works than newer ones because I'm tired of the banal style much popular current fiction is written in (and the increasing question of wondering if it is AI or AI assisted writing). I'm currently rereading a lot of Daphne du Maurier, and those older styles are creeping into my prose.
Kid Mania@Richard_Littler
"...Writers must accept artificial intelligence..."
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"The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world."
- Thomas Ligotti
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bewilderbeast23@clintruin @Richard_Littler
"...Writers must accept artificial intelligence..."
And... Voters must accept... -??
And then...?
"...Writers must accept artificial intelligence..."
And... Voters must accept... -??
And then...?
Kerry Mitchell 🍁@Richard_Littler Marche has some interesting things to say, and he obviously doesn’t have any difficulty writing without leaning on AI. He was a Shakespeare professor. I wouldn’t take that as a pro-AI article. He’s actually encouraging people to keep reading and writing and developing their skills in the face of all this hype about AI replacing everyone.
John Maxwell@Richard_Littler Oh, Pooh.
The fella that wrote this opinion piece is insufferable. It’s the words, and the meaning, it’s the whole kit and kaboodle. A true achievement.
lemgandi@Richard_Littler "The fact that machines can generate meaning in the first place is an existential curiosity."
Sorry, nope. People create meaning. Seeing figures in the clouds doesn't mean that the clouds are drawing for you, it means that you're placing meaning into random objects.
grrl_aexNo, writers must NOT "accept ai".
This current iteration of ai is purposed to replace the minds of humanity with digital simulacrum.
By "using" it you are *training* it--to REPLACE YOU.
No mistake--corps are not spending trillions to sell tokens to the masses. No. They are spending trillions with a goal of replacing the economic value of our minds with digital "human" clones.
wake the fuck up.
Get off the ai "inevitability" hype train and oppose this dystopian project.
sneedy maccreedy@Richard_Littler lol the cowards have already closed the comments