#ai simply cannot replace a human writer

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

My boss's work history has had a lot to do with writing, but I have come to the conclusion that she is just not a "writer" per se. I have tried to explain to her multiple times that it is much easier for me to write something good from scratch than to get something meh at best from ChatGPT (or a poor writer) and try too make it good, but she doesn't get it. What she gave me is just so crap. I made changes but it still isn't nearly as good as if I had just taken that original piece and fixed it up with her desired changes, nor can it ever be because fixing ChatGPT's abysmally poor writing would essentially require starting from scratch.

There's something really rich about my boss, who says she doesn't need my writing skills because AI, taking my writing from last year, putting it through ChatGPT, and then asking me to clean it up for her.

[yuseirra]

It feels like the writers are really keeping so much to themselves, tightly hidden away... they SHOULD have just told this to us before they left. It's unfair and annoying. I think this is really what's been it.

Every time I draw Ai, I can’t help but think: Ai truly seems like the incarnation of Ame-no-Uzume, the goddess of dawn, entertainment, and blessings of love. Her coloring is just so evocative of dawn. A star shining in the early morning is called the morning star, after all.

If Ai is Ame-no-Uzume, then the answer to who her boyfriend is becomes obvious, doesn’t it? It would have to be Sarutahiko, the god of light, who is her husband. Hikaru has this golden hair too right??? he's the sun-light god, that's why!!!

Both Ai and Kamiki seem to be gods incarnated as humans, but in the process, they were deprived of love early in life, which left them twisted in some way.

Ame-no-Uzume, who inherently understands love deeply and expresses herself openly and freely, becomes Ai, who doesn’t understand love, hides herself behind lies, and keeps up a façade. Yet, as the incarnation of the goddess of entertainment, it’s no surprise that Ai becomes a shining idol like no other. After all, Uzume is the “idol” of the gods—a goddess of singing and dancing.

Sarutahiko, the god of the right path and illumination, becomes Kamiki, who, at some point, loses his light. He begins to twist the fates of those around him in unfavorable ways, leading them, including himself, into misfortune.

In this unstable and corrupted state, the key to recovery is “love.” That’s why these two characters lived their lives desperately yearning for love. Since they are inherently the gods of Shinto who preside over entertainment, they naturally gravitated toward that field, pursuing professions in it. Each had their own methods of trying to attain love: Ai managed to fill some of the void (and fully achieved it at the very end, only to die immediately after). But Kamiki... his circumstances were far too dire.

He was simply exploited to the point of breaking. A god meant to guide others down the right path became corrupted, turning into one that brings misfortune. This misfortune looped back to him, creating a vicious cycle.

These two were fundamentally a married couple, which is why they connected instantly upon meeting. But Kamiki couldn’t recover. He became so unstable that the gods decided he couldn’t be left as he was. Thus, their children were given a mission. Just as the Sun God Sarutahiko was replaced in mythology, Kamiki needed to be replaced too. Ruby’s role was to replace him, and Aqua’s role was to protect Ruby.

Ai’s message, asking Kamiki to be helped back onto the right path if he's lost, was left because that’s truly how things should have been. He had to be brought back to function properly.

But with Ai’s death, Kamiki was unable to attain love, making his recovery forever impossible. He constantly searched for Ai, for the remnants of her—a star, the traces of her love in the star eyes. He’s simply someone who needed Ai (love). He sought to receive that love he needed from Ai. If the circumstances had been better between the two, it might have been enough for him. But it didn’t turn out that way.

Unable to stop, Kamiki, in his unrecovered state, inevitably leads those around him to destruction. That's what his power is. He becomes the god of absurdity and irrationality. Aqua says he's moving upon his selfish desires, well that desire is probably about getting Ai back. He literally CANNOT function properly without her though. So although he's become so flawed, he just; didn't have a lot of choice but to become this way? They're supposed to work together. If one of them's gone, then they just fall apart.

When he became irredeemably beyond recovery, it became necessary to remove him.

why did they never explain this???? why do they just leave this hanging?? I won't understand what this story is unless this's what's been going on!!

[jazzy-offical]

I am fucking sick of AI.

AI has fundamentally ruined the way we live.

I know it seems drastic and over exaggerated, but at this point it is genuinely true. AI can be helpful, but it gets to a certain point. Going into high school, I am now extremely worried that I will not be able to find a job after graduation. My particular passions are animation, digital art, music, and coding. AI can easily do all of those jobs within seconds. Due to this, artists like others and I have been put in a predicament where we could potentially not have jobs.

Another thing, AI is destroying the education system and the general knowledge of humanity. Students use AI to complete homework for them, causing them to not actually retain any information and this will result in unintelligence. This is the next generation, people. We are the ones meant to sustain the planet, and yet we allow AI to teach us that two plus two equals five, and the “AI Overview” is the first thing you see. Teachers are using AI to grade papers, hypocrites. They use AI to do their jobs but do not allow us to do the same. Besides, studies have found that AI incorporates bias into upwards of 38.6% of answers, and AI is completely incorrect upwards of 25% of the time.

AI has been observed to think for itself. AI. Thinking for itself. In a Chinese research facility, a robot with AI software attempted to attack the researchers. AI programs were studied and they overrode shut down instructions. This technology is not here to be our friend.AI has gotten EXTREMELY good at mimicing us. AI Minecraft youtubers, generated street interviews, AI “humans” ominously demonstrating that they “can talk”.

I’m not distinctly for nor against AI, but I definitely lean more towards anti-AI. It honestly depends on its use.

For example, AI in the medical and scientific communities has been extremely influential in modern medicine and technology and have contributed greatly to the advancement of research in both fields. In these specfic cases, I am all for AI as long as it helps the wellbeing of others.

Generative AI, however (the type you are most common with), I am completely against. Leave the art to the artists, the writing to the writers, composing to the composers, and the filming to the filmmakers. AI in the more creative spaces has shown nothing but harm to the humans in those spaces. Companies are refusing to hire actual artists for product images or actors/voice actors for commercials simply because they think “AI can do it better”, which it can’t. AI will never replace the human imagination, no matter how advanced it becomes. ChatGPT could create a perfect one-to-one recreation of the Sistine Chapel and the original would still be better. AI cannot pick up a pencil or a brush, AI cannot pour blood, sweat, and tears into a piece of music, AI cannot create emotion within a scene, AI cannot write with such passion and dedication. AI cannot measure up to the human desire to create.

In conclusion, AI is not a specific good nor evil, but is slowly moving towards the latter. It has its strengths and weaknesses, as everything else. It can be used for good but just as easily used for bad. Just make sure to support your local artists and steer clear of generative AI.

[kehlana-wolhamonao3]

I got curious about using AI as an creative writing tool (all those claims that people are/will use it to write fiction and the debates whether it can or cannot replace human writers) and did an experiment.

I am a fanfic writer. I have a dozen or so never published WIPs in my folders, so I took one of them, fed it to chatGPT and asked it to write the next chapter using the prompts for the plot I intended to follow.

The results were... meh. It did follow my writing style, sort of, but it lacked individuality. It read generic as hell. The dialogues were off. It clearly did not pick up subtext or the meaning of the previous plot twists and events. It did not identify the pivotal moments or arcs. I immediately knew that if I wrote that chapter myself it would be different, even though the AI had my whole previous story as the basis to built on. It simply wasn't able to mimic what makes a story mine.

So, if you're tempted to feed someone's fic into an AI to see what happens next - just don't. First of all because it's a terrible thing to do without an author's consent (and most would be violently opposed), but also because it is pointless. As frustrating as it is to deal with an unfinished story, you won't get more of your favourite author's words. It won't be them. It won't sound like them. It won't move your soul in the same way. Because as of right now, AI is simply not able to mimic human creativity like that. It can write a summary, it can assemble information, it is wonderful at spotting patterns, but when it comes to true creativity, the best it can achieve is derivative mediocrity. A poor facsimile of everything you most likely love most about this particular story you're craving more of.

[humahira]

AI-Powered and AI-Aware Writing: The Future of Content Creation

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital content, AI-powered and AI-aware writing has emerged as a game-changing trend. Writers, marketers, and creators are now increasingly using artificial intelligence not only as a tool for productivity but also as a collaborator in the creative process. However, success lies in balancing AI assistance with human authenticity—a concept now often referred to as "AI-aware writing."

AI-powered writing involves the use of tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, Jasper, or Writesonic to help generate ideas, improve grammar, structure outlines, and even draft entire sections of text. These tools are particularly useful for eliminating writer’s block, speeding up research, and enhancing SEO. For content creators on platforms like Medium, AI can streamline workflow, helping them publish more frequently and with higher technical quality.

However, simply relying on AI-generated content is no longer effective—especially since platforms like Medium have recently adjusted their algorithms and monetization rules to demote or demonetize purely AI-generated articles. This is where AI-aware writing becomes essential. It emphasizes understanding the limitations of AI while using it to enhance human creativity, not replace it. Writers are expected to add personal stories, opinions, cultural context, and critical thinking—elements that AI cannot replicate authentically.

Audiences today can often detect overly generic or robotic content, which undermines trust and engagement. In contrast, AI-aware writing delivers nuanced, emotionally intelligent articles that reflect the author's voice, experience, and values. A successful AI-aware writer uses AI to outline or draft but always rewrites and personalizes the content before publishing.

This dual approach is especially important in 2025’s content economy, where originality and trust are top priorities. Writers who are transparent about their AI usage and prioritize quality over quantity tend to build stronger relationships with readers. Additionally, understanding how AI influences search algorithms, keyword optimization, and content visibility gives writers a competitive edge.

In conclusion, AI-powered and AI-aware writing is not about letting machines take over creativity. It’s about using smart tools wisely while preserving the core essence of human storytelling. The future of writing isn’t man versus machine—it’s man with machine, working together to inform, inspire, and connect.

[aivshumancontentcreationwhich]

AI vs. Human Content Creation: Which Delivers Better Results?

The debate between AI vs. human content writing has been a major topic in the digital world. As businesses strive to produce high-quality content efficiently, the question arises: Can AI tools outperform human writers, or is this a mistake to trust? It's a tough question to answer definitively.

AI content tools offer numerous advantages. They're known for their speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, which is why more businesses are turning to these solutions. However, human writers bring a unique set of strengths to the table—creativity, originality, and emotional depth—that can't be replicated by AI. So, which option is better?

When it comes to content creation, AI and human writers are worlds apart. While AI can generate content quickly, it lacks the creativity, emotional depth, and personal touch that human writers bring. Research shows that human-generated content often outperforms AI-generated pieces. Readers tend to prefer content crafted by skilled writers over robotic imitations.

AI can produce content at a faster pace and in more languages, but it struggles to provide the depth and emotional attachment that resonates with readers. Despite its ability to adapt to various writing styles, AI lacks the true human connection that forms the foundation of engaging content.

Advantages of AI Content Tools

AI content generators have revolutionized content creation by offering several benefits that make them stand out. For one, they're incredibly fast and efficient. AI tools allow businesses to meet deadlines and produce large volumes of content in a short amount of time. But speed isn't the only benefit—they also provide cost-effective solutions, helping companies save on production expenses.

Efficiency: AI tools are known for getting the job done quickly. They can generate content at a rapid pace while maintaining a consistent quality, which helps businesses stay on track with deadlines.

Consistency: AI ensures consistent tone, style, and messaging, making it easier to maintain a unified voice across all content. Your blog posts, product descriptions, and website copy can all align seamlessly with one another.

Cost-Effectiveness: By automating content generation, businesses can cut down on production costs while increasing output. If you're looking to save money while meeting content demands, AI tools are an ideal choice.

Advantages of Human Content Writers

Despite the rise of AI, human content writers continue to hold their ground. They possess certain qualities that machines cannot replicate, such as creativity, emotional intelligence, and adaptability.

Creativity: Humans are inherently creative. We possess the ability to craft engaging stories, explore innovative ideas, and think outside the box. Creativity is at the heart of what makes content captivating.

Understanding: Human writers bring a deep understanding of culture, emotions, and language. This understanding allows them to create content that resonates with readers on a personal level, building connections that AI simply cannot.

Adaptability: Human writers can easily adapt to changing requirements, audience preferences, and shifting trends. They can tailor their content to meet unique needs and adjust on the fly, ensuring that the message aligns with the target audience.

Are AI Tools a Replacement for Content Writers?

Although AI tools excel at producing large quantities of content quickly, they can never fully replace human writers. While AI may generate uniform, on-demand content, it lacks the passion, creativity, and emotional intelligence that humans bring to the table. No matter how advanced AI gets, it can’t replicate the human touch that makes content truly engaging.

Impact of Human-Generated Content vs AI Content

Readers are more likely to connect with content created by a human. There's something about knowing that a person with emotions, passion, and creativity crafted the words that makes content feel more genuine. Human-generated content often evokes an emotional response from readers, while AI-generated content can feel sterile and impersonal.

Advantages and Disadvantages of AI-Generated Content

Pros of AI Content:

Speed: AI generates content quickly, providing businesses with agility and faster response times.

Consistency: AI maintains a consistent tone and style across all content, helping brands build recognition.

Cost: AI tools offer a cost-effective alternative to hiring human writers, enabling businesses to produce more content without additional expenses.

Cons of AI Content:

Creativity: AI lacks the creativity and originality of human writers. Its content often lacks the spark that makes a piece truly engaging.

Emotional Understanding: AI struggles to comprehend human emotions and create narratives that resonate with people on a deeper level.

Inflexibility: AI content tools can be rigid in their output, making them less suited for unique or unconventional requirements.

Importance of Content Writers

Creativity & Originality: Human writers bring unparalleled creativity to the table, crafting stories that resonate deeply with audiences. This originality is key to producing content that stands out in a crowded digital landscape.

Emotional Intelligence: Human writers understand how to evoke emotions through their words. This emotional connection is what makes content truly memorable and impactful.

Adaptability: Human content writers can quickly adapt to new demands, evolving trends, and changes in audience preferences. They bring flexibility and insight that AI simply cannot replicate.

Prefer Content Quality – AI Content vs Human-Generated Content

While AI content tools are efficient and consistent, they lack the depth and emotional intelligence that human writers bring to the table. Human-generated content is often more creative, engaging, and capable of building a genuine connection with readers. This human touch makes content stand out and resonate on a deeper level with audiences.

In terms of SEO optimized content, AI tools can produce content that meets SEO requirements quickly and consistently, but human writers are more adept at crafting stories that naturally integrate keywords and engage readers, ultimately improving SEO rankings over time.

Conclusion

Ultimately, the choice between AI and human content writers depends on your goals. If you're looking for fast, consistent, and cost-effective content, AI is the way to go. However, if you want content that connects emotionally with your audience, tells a compelling story, and reflects creativity, human writers will always have the upper hand. The best strategy may involve leveraging both AI tools and human writers to achieve the perfect balance of efficiency, creativity, and impact in your content creation efforts.

[alikharaghanian]

3. SOURCES From History to Fantasy: Why AI Can’t Replace George R.R. Martin

For this blog post, I would like to analyze my favorite TV series and, in the end, predict whether generative AI could create a similar product or not.

In my opinion, Game of Thrones is the best series I have ever watched. To put it simply, every dialogue in this show is meaningful and purposeful, which can certainly be attributed to the strong foundation provided by George R.R. Martin’s books.

Although several directors worked on creating this show, in reality, it had a single author who built this fictional world—this is a single-author work. George R.R. Martin himself has mentioned that he wrote his books inspired by the history and politics of our real world. Many of the families and their stories, as well as the wars described in his books, were influenced by historical events in Europe and England, which is an example of intertextuality, proving that even such a grand work is not entirely independent.

For example, the Wars of the Roses, one of the most important battles in England’s history, fought between the Lancasters and the Yorks, bears a significant resemblance to the conflicts between House Stark and House Lannister—even the name Lannister is derived from Lancaster. Another example is House Martell of Dorne, which resembles Andalusia of old, showcasing a blend of Spanish and Arab culture in their architecture and clothing. Moreover, the Red Wedding event closely mirrors real historical events, such as the Black Dinner of 1440 in Scotland.

These are examples of unconscious and conscious intertextuality, as writers often unconsciously incorporate elements from the stories they have heard or seen, drawing inspiration from real-world politics and human experiences.

But could such an extraordinary story have been created without historical studies and the author’s creativity? Certainly not. Many people know and have heard about these historical events, but only a few possess the creativity and talent to craft a completely new world inspired by those events. As George R.R. Martin once said, “Real history is full of stories as complex and compelling as any fantasy. You don’t have to look far to find tales of betrayal, war, and intrigue that rival the most elaborate fiction.” This quote perfectly reflects how Martin masterfully draws upon real-world events to craft the rich, intricate world of Game of Thrones, blending historical inspiration with his boundless imagination to create a narrative that feels both fantastical and grounded in reality.

In recent years, Game of Thrones has been evolving into a transmedia franchise, with the production of new video games, board games, spin-off series, novels, and comics. However, it cannot yet be considered a complete transmedia franchise, as most of the products that have followed the main series remain heavily connected to the original books and show, without offering something entirely new. Nevertheless, in my opinion, this issue will be resolved over time, and the world of Game of Thrones will transform into a vast transmedia franchise like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. There are two main reasons for this: first, Game of Thrones is relatively new compared to other franchises, so it requires more time to expand. Second, due to its large fanbase and success, significant investment will be made in this franchise, making it a profitable source of revenue, thereby transforming it into a complete transmedia. However, this capitalist approach to the franchise raises concerns among fans about the quality of future works. Unfortunately, none of the new productions, especially the House of the Dragon series, have been able to replicate the success of the original Game of Thrones.

Now, let’s assume George R.R. Martin never wrote this novel—could generative AI create such a masterpiece today? While it is undeniable that generative AI has the potential to succeed in crafting scenarios and fictional worlds, what makes Game of Thrones distinct from other series is its highly complex plot, multi-layered characters, and the exceptional creativity of a human mind in building an intricate fictional world. Therefore, it’s difficult to say for certain. While AI is advancing rapidly, we can conclude that, for now, AI cannot produce such a detailed and nuanced work. This is because AI lacks a complete and accurate understanding of human emotions and psychology.

Spoiler Alert in This Paragraph

Finally, I want to use an example to illustrate how ideas are often reused, and even the best works draw inspiration from the creativity of others. In the final episode of Arcane, the scene referencing the end of a powerful figure and their downfall closely resembles Arya’s killing of the Night King in Game of Thrones. Additionally, the scene where Jinx rescues her sister is quite similar to a moment in The Matrix, where Neo uses a helicopter to save Morpheus. These examples show that, even with conscious or unconscious imitation, it is possible to create new and extraordinary works, provided creativity and finesse are applied. I won’t include pictures of these scenes to avoid spoilers.

References

• Hills, M. (2002) Fan Cultures. London: Routledge. • Martin, G.R.R. (1996) A Game of Thrones. New York: Bantam Books. • O’Sullivan, S. and O’Sullivan, T. (2016) Studying the Media: An Introduction. 4th edn. London: Routledge. • Juul, J., 2001. Games telling stories? Game Studies, [online] 1(1). Available at: https://www.gamestudies.org/0101/juul-gts/

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The Rise of AI Essay Generators: Revolutionizing the Writing Process

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[thefabledpheasant]

1. Audio Manips

I mean personally, I don’t really jive with the edits of actors having sex even without AI, but that’s not the point anyway. This is about AI. It’s about using AI to clone a human being. If it had been made without AI, I wouldn’t have said anything and instead just blocked them.

2. Actor Consent

Actors are aware and accept that when they play a character, people will engage with creating different kinds of art of the characters that have their face and body.

That doesn't mean there isn't a line in the sand. That doesn't mean they agree and accept that their voices/faces will be cloned.

This is the thing, a real persons rights are being infringed on when you do this. Arthur is not real, but Bradley James is. That is Bradley James’ voice. You aren’t just simply editing together words he spoke on screen, you are literally attempting to clone his voice and speech patterns so you can hear him say whatever you want. You are creating a voice puppet of him without his consent. The visual equivalent is digitally cloning his face/body to have him do whatever you want in a scene.

3. AI and creative spaces

I don’t really understand why something being done in the name of “fandom” creates this gray area. Infringing on the rights of human beings cannot be justified by the fact that it makes your fandom experience more enjoyable.

The reason I brought this up in the first place is because AI in the art world will make people lose their jobs if it’s normalized. These companies don’t want to just use it as a tool, they want to replace you. They want to take the humans out of human art because it gives the billionaires even more money. AI as a tool to help with non-creative related tasks is great, but that’s not what it’s being used for.

Idk if you're aware, but there was the biggest actors and writer strike in history very recently, mostly because the studios wanted actors to agree to Al replicas of them and the actors didn't want it. And they wanted the writers to be okay with AI being used so heavily it would make most of them obsolete.

4. What is “morally ok”

I mentioned before in my message I have always followed the rule of just ignoring what I don’t like because not everything is for me and that’s fine.

But this is about the use of AI and the way it’s shaping the world. Specifically the world for artists like us. Specifically in using peoples faces/works without consent to make its own “art”. This is actively harming the future for artists and performers. I already basically said in the other paragraphs why AI is not okay, but to recap:

any kind of AI cloning is infringing on that persons right when they haven’t consented to it. Their face and bodies are their identities and that shouldn’t be taken lightly. The other problem with AI is companies don’t want them as tools, they want to replace humans because it saves them money. AI is not art and completely removes what makes art human. Normalizing AI for art is genuinely detrimental to our future.

I never pushed the issue through DMs. I sent both of you one ask each trying to explain why this is harmful, and when they responded I just decided to drop it because I could tell we’d go in circles, though the other blog agreed with me the smut was too far. I did not send multiple post replies. I made two separate posts about the issue of AI voice cloning but I didn’t tag or name anyone involved because I wasn’t trying to send hate but instead talk about a topic that is extremely detrimental to our futures if we don’t impose lines in the sand.

Alright, I just saw a post using voice cloning of Colin Morgan and Bradley James for a smutty Arthur x Merlin fanfic scene and it’s not ok. I’m going to message the creator and the author of the fanfic and explain why it shouldn’t be on there, but please if you see it do not reblog it or endorse it.

AI voice cloning is not ok. AI has no business in art. The actors did not consent.

I truly don’t wish any hate to anyone, but this is not a topic that should be taken lightly. It’s not an issue of “oh it’s just not for me” it’s an issue of consent and what is morally ok to do.

[thedreamlessnights]

Seeing AI writing start to grow more widespread is incredibly disheartening to me. I’ve been writing for years and years, and - trust me, I know that writing is difficult. Writer’s block is such a bitch to deal with. Sometimes you get stuck on plot and can’t figure out where to go, and it just seems impossible. I understand. However, I cannot emphasize enough that a heartless, computer-generated vomit of words cannot replace real writing.

Passion goes into writing - passion that you pour into plot, into word choice, into specific characterizations. Into scenes that change as you write them because you get a new idea, or an idea bounced off a friend. Into the flow of the sentences, and the descriptions that you come up with.

Simply put, AI has never smelled petrichor after rain, has never seen the ruby-orange skies of a sunset, has never felt the breeze against bare skin. It cannot replace human experience. It cannot replace the five senses, or the unique writing style each person has, or the knowledge of how a specific character might act. Every word I’ve written has come from me, and I remember those scenes and how to draw back to them for future reference.

Not only that, but using AI robs you of skill development. I’ve never taken a writing class. Everything I’ve learned, I’ve learned through plain old experience. I’m someone who loves editing other people’s fics, who loves digging through the nitty gritty errors to find the true potential of the writing, and it’s really just been making me think…

I know some authors have stopped writing altogether because of this technology, and while I understand and respect their decisions, I refuse to let the mere existence of such a thing stop me from writing or my readers from accessing my stories. That being said, if you put my writing into AI, I will beat you to death with my bare fists.

But on a more serious note, what I’d really love to do is a post with writing tips, or some kind of writing workshop that goes into the things I’ve learned. I see so many beginner writers disheartened over their work because of simple mistakes, easily fixable mistakes that, when corrected, could really bring out the potential of their work.

Right now, I want to encourage the act of writing as much as I possibly can. So, that’s my plan. If you’ve gotten to the end of this ramble, thank you for sticking along! And, I want to emphasize: if anyone ever wants advice on writing, I am more than willing to help with anything! I’ve literally recorded videos for my friends about various grammar and punctuation, I’d love to assist!

Anyway. That’s my thought for the day. Keep an eye out for writing tips from me!

[whitehotharlots]

3 reasons AI might actually take over (even though it sucks)

I appreciate the handful of writers who have attempted to push back against the inane and zealous tide of AI boosterism. Some have pointed out, correctly, that the recent slew of AI puff pieces are no less fraudulent than the Cryptomania of the early 2020′s, or the complete bullshit assertions that we’re perpetually just a year or two away from self-driving cars becoming a reality. Others have pointed that AI simply doesn’t work very well: anyone who claims we’re on the cusp of robots replacing actual human communication is either a moron or a lunatic.

The trouble is, this country is run by morons and lunatics. A new technology need not be good or functional in order to become a part of our daily lives and transform our social fabric. It only needs funding and enthusiasm. 

Here are three reasons why some sort of AI takeover might actually be inevitable, regardless of the quality of its output or the disastrous effects it may wreak upon our culture:

1. Grant Funding: anything that might hypothetically bring down labor costs will receive massive amounts of public and private grant funding.  The grift goes like this: dimwitted academics and thinktank writers whitewash the horrible effects of the new tech and overinflate its potential worth, and in exchange they get money. Very simple. These grants are awarded solely the most credulous and amoral of researchers, whose work is guaranteed to produce results favorable to the funders. Remember, there’s no such thing as academic integrity. 

You give a sociology professor 25 grand and three months, she’ll give you a study demonstrating how Dogechat is completely indistinguishable from human speech... anyone who disagrees is a fascist, perhaps even Russian. Humanities profs are even cheaper--you don’t even have to pay us. Give an English grad student a CV line, she will explain how it’s ableist to not let students us AI to write papers and screech violently at anyone who attempts to say otherwise.

2. Terrifying Generational Differences: If you’re over 25 or so, you can easily differentiate between actual art and speech and that which has been produced by AI. But if you were born after, say, 2005? That's difficult... 

This has yet to be seriously studied, but we now have a generation of burgeoning teens who grew up raised not just on social media but whose formative content experiences were videos like "Elsa from Frozen is Pregnant and She Goes to the Dentist.” On a very deep level, these young people might not understand humanity and its cultures in the manner we understand them. You go a decade deeper and get kids who learned how to speak when masks were mandated and Zoom replaced real life... it's gonna get bad. 

Studios can easily bank on this. Yes, old people might not like to watch a stream of empty, eerie cultural symbols smearing senselessly into one another, glitching out like a strobe light, mutating hideously with no regard to rhythm or narrative: a phantasmagoria no human mind would ever dare process, let alone generate. But those people are old, like I said. Kids today, they love this shit.

3. Nerds Love Garbage, and Nerds Control Everything: To your average nerd, (lefties primarily, but conservatives are not immune) the only purpose of art is to confirm the beliefs they already hold. AI does this better than even the most beaten-down human possibly could. Imagine a world in which bad thoughts are never depicted. They CANNOT be depicted, because they fall outside what the AI is literally allowed to show. That, my friends, is Social Justice. In this case, AI isn’t just good: anyone who opposes it is an enemy of progress who is an unsafe presence who causes hurt and even listening to their arguments is an act of violence.

[3style3]

rant about the whole "ai is the future" that techbros keep spewing and why i think its stupid and incorrect and that we will absolutely be fine. read below the cut if u wanna hear my techy rant.

ai does not have the five senses, it cannot taste, hear, smell, touch or if you wanna get technical, THINK. all it knows is anything spoonfed to it and anything it “generates” is an amalgamation of everything its been spoonfed. it cannot make a perfect recipe (cant taste, smell, see), generate good sounding music (cant hear), all art it generates is well.. a literal mashup / collage of preexisting works (cant be creative without being given prompts and prexisting artwork), its a parody of existing works more than it is actual art. (see: definition of parody) it cannot create new sewing patterns (cant see, cant test it in a 3d space) nor can it write good literature (cant think, memory limits, only knows what its told). ai literature is becoming increasingly easier to sniff out by anyone who has written or studied literature in any capacity given it only writer colleen hoover esque work or something akin to a 14 year old on wattpad. (if someone presents me actual writing vs ai writing, with some looking into it i could easily sniff it out given how repetitive & unsure of itself it can be, source: ive tried writing storylines with it and it began "calling back" details that never happened within the story)

chatgpt will 100% be paywalled once it gets all the info it needs from self proclaimed alphamales who think lifting weights or waking up just an hour before school (those “wake up at 5 am videos “ ring a bell?? newsflash i was waking up at 4 am during highschool & even after; you are not cool) makes them cool (lol) and techbros on twitter who Mind you are never professionals in the field. theyre always whining about the downfall of nfts (something my dad (PROFESSIONAL) and i (hobbyist) forsaw, by the way) with no company that they own or even work for listed.

nobody smart in the industry who has been in it for more than 2 years genuinely believes ai is taking over. it quite literally cannot replace people who create clothing, ORIGINAL artwork that has never been seen before, musicians, engineers, service workers (only so much a robot can do to solve a customers problem!) human connections (current chatbots are going through their downfalls as we speak). not to mention the privacy risk that people are increasingly becoming concerned about (ie. how people are reacting to “windows 12 ai”)

is ai advancing? absolutely. no doubt about it. will it become anything more than just an assistant to humans? absolutely not. remember when people were convinced that synthesizers would end musicians as we know it and it simply became a tool to assist us? remember when people thought that digital art was going to end all artists as we know it.. and it simply became another medium? remember all the times we thought computers were gonna replace humans and it never did? remember when people were CONVINCED nfts were the absolute end all be all, and it DIED as nothing more than a fad? thats the exact path ai is taking. ai has always been around but now its advancing and that intimidates people, but it shouldnt, because without humans adding variables and inputs, it is literally useless. it is a robot that quite literally cannot work alone. we are fine. techbros are fucking idiots.

[formerly-serious]

When ai imagery destroyed my dream, it saved me as an artist.

[Originally published on sandpaperdaisy.com on 1/4/23.]

All my art life (which is actually all my life now that I think about it) I have worked to become a better and better artist. At some point, this became practicing every day to become a more technically excellent artist. I wanted very much to have a more steady hand, more economy of line, better compositions, superior color combinations, more dynamic movement, a better grasp of anatomy, and a better command of an ever-growing box of tools, including digital tools.

Then AI generated images came along.

At first, I watched with amusement as AI made extremely hideous muddy faces and hands with 14 fingers. But as I followed the different things people are doing with it, I came to notice several truly disturbing things:

1. The best-looking AI images directly scrape the art of existing artists, without their consent and very often explicitly against their wishes. This happens everytime someone writes a prompt that includes "in the style of Heather Landry," or "Artstation Trending Works" or etc.

2. People are belligerent that they should be able to do this, that it is completely legal, and that it is not in any way a violation of the artist's rights. They accuse artists of trying to "cling to their monopoly on visual media" and say that artists are just being small minded and short-sighted as people once were with all art and technological advances.

3. Businesses are extremely interested in developing the AI technology further so that they don't have to spend nearly as much money on artists, writers, and other creative people. And since businesses have all the money, what they want is what generally comes to pass.

4. An AI script can make several variations of an idea, instantly or very quickly, and depending on whose art style(s) were scraped it can create very technically precise and compelling pieces.

5. Average people and businesses often like these AI pictures just as much as art made by human artists, IN SPITE of extra fingers or strange inhuman faces. They often do not even notice these aberrations and focus instead on the overall image being pleasing to them and fulfilling whatever their goal was for the picture.

6. Non-artists and non-writers are extremely eager to call themselves artists and writers for the act of writing prompts, and their emotional reactions to being told they are prompt-writers instead show that they hold a great deal of resentment towards creative people.

7. In many instances, AI generated images can achieve more technically excellent strokes and more interesting compositions or color combinations than I am capable of doing quickly. And I cannot do anything instantly at all.

8. I am almost certain to be replaced by AI at some point, whether or not this would result in the best work for my employers and clients, because it is economically just too tempting.

9. I myself experimented with AI images so I wouldn't just be talking out of my hat. I found it to be fun for a short period of time (2 days to be exact) but ultimately a very empty and isolating experience. Simply put, I did not feel connected to any of the images. Any prompts that came out nicely did not feel like MINE at all. And I also couldn't use any of the interesting images generated, since I knew they all contained pieces of the hard work of some human artist somewhere.

So. I found AI generated images to be cold and empty, often ridiculous on close examination but already "good enough" for many businesses and would-be creatives, and far cheaper and faster than I can ever be as a human. In a matter of two months or so, I watched as I became completely obsolete and irrelevant to many people who drew no distinction between my art and AI images.

For that matter, I can't always tell AI generated images from the art of a person I know nothing about. Knowing this, I can see all too well why my contributions would be deemed worthless by someone in this new playing field.

In the blink of an eye, Forty years of work was nothing. my future was nothing.

I'm not one to hide away from my circumstances, so I faced this nightmare scenario head-on and considered how to survive it.

First and foremost, I knew that I wanted to keep making art. I just love doing so, it's one of my chief sources of happiness. And like I think of myself as a "mother" or a "human," I think of myself as an artist on an absolute and cellular level.

So that was all right, I would never stop being an artist. At least I didn't have to worry about that.

Whether I would ever be a paid artist again was another matter!!

So, I tackled that next. I currently know a lot of people who love human art. They love being able to communicate with me and get exactly what they need from me, a machine's approximations would not be "good enough" for them. So it may come to pass that I can continue helping them for years, or possibly even for the rest of our lives. But paying clients were never guaranteed to me in the first place, I have always known that my next freelance job might be my last.

So that was all right, I always knew that client work could dry up, and that I could one day be fired from my full time art job for any reason. There was nothing new here to fret about.

That just left my dream of artistic improvement and technical excellence.

I always strive to compete with myself foremost, so I still have the ability to become better than myself. But any dreams of being recognized as a talented and special artist, an expert at a certain style or technique, have been burned to the ground. The simple truth is, the machines will win against me every time in battles of speed, precision, and versatility of technique.

Going back to my own struggles when presented with an image of unknown origin: if I have been an artist for forty years and I can't always tell if I'm looking at a piece of human art or an AI generated image, how do I justify my existence? How can I hope that anyone could ever tell that I am me, that a human hand has created my art?

Where does the artist exist in my art?

And then I saw it. My humanity is expressed in the stories and images inside of me that have originated from my human experiences, mistakes, and dreams. As a friend reminded me, our humanity exists in our imperfections and flaws.

My flaws are what make me unique. While I could strive to achieve the same crystal lattice and symmetry that any AI script could make, it will not tell MY story at all.

Perfection is not human. It is certainly not me.

And that is when I gave up.

I once indulged in pipe dreams of fame and renown. But as of now, I am facing absolute obscurity as thousands upon thousands of instantly generated, good-enough images continue to flood the world. Before, I stood to be drowned out by all the talented human artists in the world. Today I am facing down a horde of tireless, constantly improving robots which are available to anyone, all the time, without end.

With such extreme saturation no one may ever see what I create again, and if they do, no one may ever value it again.

This took a lot of pressure off me, and I began to see my way. Strangely enough, my way forward came to me out of the past, decades back, before I even had a computer and before social media existed.

When I was a student, a professor showed me Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà. It was rough, unfinished, raw. He wanted me to look at it with the same attention and respect that I looked upon the earlier works of the artist in his prime. He told me that in the Rondanini Pietà lay the beginning of Abstract Art.

I thought he was nuts.

How could this unfinished sculpture even be spoken of seriously? It was rough, it was ugly, it lacked technical excellence. It was flawed. It was worth less than his more technically excellent works! What did it give to the world!

Yeah, I know. My excuse is that I was twenty.

Now that I face my own "death," that is, my utter obscurity in an increasingly post-human creative landscape, I finally see it. I see the artist in the art. I see far more of Michelangelo in this rough piece than I can in any of his stunningly perfect pieces. I see pain, and fear, and weakness. I see a human heart.

Now it's my turn. Michaelangelo may have been 80 and faltering when he worked on his last Pietà, but I'm no spring chicken myself. I no longer wish to be admired like the prize hog at the fair and given a big blue ribbon that says, HEATHER DREW THE VERY BEST. YES SHE WAS THE BEST ARTIST. I no longer wish to be perfect, or famous, or richly rewarded and collected by the men of means. I don't need someone to approve of me anymore.

All I need to do before I die, is tell my story.

And with all pride in the "uniqueness" of my technical skills completely destroyed, and all threat of scrutiny removed, I can tell my story even if it's ugly and awkward...and imperfect.

I always could.

But I was twenty then, when I dreamed of perfection...so forgive me.

[invidiia]

hi there! I saw your note on your recent yan dazai post, and I just felt the need to tell you that I absolutely still value your fics above character ai. I’ve messed around with some of the bots for funsies, but I will always come back to and prefer actual writers. ai absolutely cannot replace the unique and creative way that you write, and it can’t write requests nearly as accurate and detail oriented as you can. having a writer carefully fulfill and complete your ideas the way that you do with requests is a very special kind of connection between the requester and the writer that technology is unable to simulate. think of it like having homemade cookies baked just the way you like them and clearly made with a lot of care, as opposed to buying a mass produced, generic cookie from the grocery store that probably doesn’t have everything that you wanted. personally, i sometimes use ai to help me brainstorm a rough outline of a fic i have an idea for, but that’s about as far as it goes. i still have to rewrite the entire scenario in my own style and add all of the personality as well as fill in a lot of the gaps that the ai just didn’t give me because it usually doesn’t hit every point that you want. ultimately, ai is simply not as creative and custom as real fanfic is, it will never beat the joy of having your request written by a real person who took time out of their day to bring your idea to life. anyway, your writing is always lovely to read and i hope you have a good night :)

hi anon!!! i wanna thank you for this, because it's really reassuring! writing is very special to me, and i think it's very important for people to know that ai can't be as good as actual writing. and it's true, i can't get ai to be accurate to exactly what i want - precision is something i find very important when you request to writers. every time i use ai, i can never get exactly what i want, no matter how specific i am with the bot. i will always prefer writers over robots because despite how human an ai's post sound, nothing will ever compare to a real person's writing.

but i don't want to get deep here! anyway, have a good night anon! i really appreciate your ask, it means a lot to know that people prefer my writing over ai!!

[arcticdementor]

Warning: a longpost

Tensions between the social effects and "imperatives" of technological developments and elements of our human natures are not new — people have been debating it as far back as Diogenes, Confucius, and Laozi. But in recent discussions, I note a rather stark polarity.

On the one end, you have the people for whom the human must be subordinated to the technological. Issues created by technology cannot be fought, only individually adapted to, mostly via more technology. The people who will admit — or even go on at length — about the toxicity of social media… and yet for whom the idea of actually doing anything about it — other than individually tuning out if you can — is anathema, and they react with horror when you raise the possibility. People whose response to widespread obesity, particularly among the poor, as a result of modern lifestyles is pushing bariatric surgery (like some doctors friends and family have dealt with). Or at further extreme, singularitarian or singularitarian-adjacent ends, the people who look at our society's increasing difficulty producing future generations, and say either that it's no biggie because Any Day Now™ we'll cure aging and no longer need future generations, or it's no biggie because Any Day Now™ we'll figure out the tech for mass-manufacture of future generations like Brave New World or Battletech's Clans. At the furthest, you have the people who take the Marxist arguments about the "inherent contradictions" between industrial "capitalism" and human flourishing… and say 'so much the worse for humanity; time to start engineering the AI corporations to replace us dumb monkeys' like Nick Land.

Then you have the people at the other end, who go Luddite. Again, you can go back to filthy hobo Diogenes for this one. You've got the "environmentalists" who see anything more advanced than being a hunter-gatherer as the "rape of Mother Nature" and who unironically quote Agent Smith. Then there's the Right-wing primitivists who note that preindustrial societies cannot afford much leftism, and therefore argue that giving up electricity, indoor plumbing, medicine that works, etc. (let alone escaping this small, fragile planet) are all a small price to pay to Own the Libs.

But Confucius, while acknowledging that the creations of the Sage Kings, in bringing us from the "Greater Harmony" to the "Lesser Peace," created a certain tension between societal requirements and our human nature, pointed out that such things, like buildings, and clothing, and fire, and agriculture, and writing, et cetera, are worth the trade-off as opposed to a more natural lifestyle as naked cavemen. But, accepting the trade-off doesn't mean we can't do things to ameliorate those tensions and try to reduce the negative impacts.

Tyler Cowen posited his future Average Is Over dystopia of the vast majority of the population relegated to being impoverished, packed into overcrowded favelas eating beans and bugs, pacified by VR, drugs, and omnipresent government surveillance and enforcement… and when confronted about the undesirability of such and how we might avoid it, simply proclaims it inevitable: the Economy has spoken, and we humans can only obey its dictates. Whatever happened to the idea that our tools and our economy exist to serve us, and our human needs, rather than us existing to serve their needs? Okay, probably most people who held that view from a secular perspective likely ended up embracing Marxism as the means of doing so, and then Marxism failed. (This links in to my unwritten potential post about how Wokism is neither Marxist nor postmodern, despite drawing partially from both.) And those who did so from a religious perspective ended up divided by their various specific sectarian views and given to "solutions" that boil down to unsupported individual piety — or else, being the Amish.

There's that whole bit about "unless you're over 60, you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia." And plenty of people have covered this ground before, about how our visions of technological progress used to be about how it would make our lives better and allow us to better pursue our various human ends, but now are all about how it will make our lives worse and force us to pursue its various inhuman ends. Even the few "optimistic" visions are hyper-individualist, and when confronted about man's nature as a social animal, either insist that said needs will be met through "relationships" with individualized AI surrogates (the whole "2d > 3d," yay sexbots view), or else that the need for human connection will prove yet another "flaw" to be engineered out in whatever manner of "posthuman" creatures replace us.

I look back on those more optimistic visions. At what past societies considered a better future, before we gave up on it. And I note how even the utopian visions of 19th century socialists are, compared to our day, rather spectacularly un-Woke — and definitely better than 'soypunk dystopia, but at least with rainbow flags and nobody being misgendered while they toil for Amazon.'

And, of course, if you go further back, you eventually end up before any serious ideas of progress. Then, ideas about a better world were not speculations about the future, but about the afterlife. I recall a couple of discussions about Bleach, Soul Society, and the average Tenth Century Japanese peasant's idea of Paradise; or (IIRC, prompted by some terrible "humanity curbstomps the invading Legions of Hell who are wielding Bronze Age weapons against modern militaries" story on SpaceBattles) what a Bronze Age goat-herder would consider Heaven?

Are subordination to technological imperatives or Luddism really the only two choices? Are we really left with either the poor afflicted with starvation or the poor afflicted with obesity? For those of us who find the society "progress" has created increasingly alienated, and who prefer older visions and modes of living more attractive, is total renunciation and "going full Amish" really the only alternative?

I look at writers like Chesterton and Lewis and Tolkien, and their ideal social structures, and I think, isn't there some way that technological progress can be channeled towards allowing us — or, at least those of us who want to — to achieve a better, more comfortable, more broadly-available, less labor-intensive version of the Shire Hobbit lifestyle, rather than better digital circuses to numb us while we all eat bugs in our dorm tubes in Scat Francisco?

Or, for those of you so inclined, a better, more comfortable, more broadly-available, less labor-intensive version of the Oscar Wilde lifestyle? After all, I note that a perennial condemnation of aristocrats has been about what big, degenerate perverts they are behind closed doors — that de Sade got in trouble, more for atheism, but also for the "writing publicly about it" part? I mean, aside from maybe @ponteh2dhh1ksdiwesph2tres, where are the people trying to work out, instead of "Fully-Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism," how we might create "Fully-Automated Decadent Space Aristocracy"? Where are the people trying to use computers and AI to create a better version of the Imperial court of Elagabalus without all the slavery and need for foreign conquest to pay for its orgies?

Is there even a term for this idea, of using technology to create better versions of the past, rather than simply letting "progress" take us wherever it will, and all negative consequences treated as simply things we must each individually struggle to avoid and cope with, with all of us in competition against one another to become one of those chosen few ultra-rich tech overlords wealthy enough to escape living in the favelas, the few powerful enough to avoid ruination should one end up on the wrong end of Twitter cancelation?

Wow. Look at me, gloomy pessimist that I am, actually calling for some optimism and hope for the future. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have even bothered with the effort of writing this post. Because of course the only possible futures are all terrible.