404 MediaAI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
ee@404mediaco it’s not just similar — it’s an endless continuation of a near-identical semantic paradigm. You’re absolutely right!
Gaëtan Perrault@404mediaco I have been accused of being AI 3 times in the last 3 weeks... On Q&A-style questions on Reddit.
Thing is, I've been on Q&A style sites for nearly two decades. I'm top 0.5% on StavkOverflow, I'm a multi-time Top Writer and prize winner on Quora. All sites that were mined for the AI training. And if you're going to prioritize an answer to use as training, you're going to pick the correct answer that I gave.
Just like Olang, I don't sound like AI, AI sounds like me.
I'm not even sure if I should be pleased or annoyed by that.?
I responded to my accusers, and they never really point to anything specific. My answers are not wrong, or incorrectly structured. They leverage markdown and hyperlinks, but I've been doing that for years. They just point to the whole tenor of the thing. The same tenor I've been writing with for 15 years. 🤷🏻♂️
Sadly, the accusations also carry some insidious undertones. The AI suspicion ignores data or content veracity or general utility, it questions structure.
SebastianCode@404mediaco AI art is like taking a splash of paint from every masterpiece of art and then stirring it all up vigorously, expecting something new and creative to come out of it.
But all you end up with is a brown, bland mush.
But all you end up with is a brown, bland mush.
Lando@404mediaco Send my thanks to Jason for writing this article. I feel seen, in an extremely frustrating way. The ending of the piece was particularly salient; I felt like screaming, or crying, as I read it.
I’m so, so tired of reading crap that a human couldn’t even be bothered to write.
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