September 5th, 2024

Thoughts while watching myself be automated

The author reflects on AI's rapid advancements, expressing concerns about its impact on creativity, accuracy, and emotional depth, while emphasizing the need for human oversight in the creative process.

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Thoughts while watching myself be automated

The author reflects on a recent experience of being automated by a friend using AI to replicate their writing style. Initially skeptical about the potential for complete automation of human intellectual work, the author observes the rapid advancements in AI capabilities. Their friend began generating AI-written content that, while initially lacking in quality, improved significantly through iterative tuning and model switching. This process led the author to contemplate the nature of creativity, personality, and the essence of human expression. They express a desire for AI to assist rather than replace human creativity, highlighting the challenges of maintaining a unique voice amidst automation. The author also critiques the AI's tendency to lean towards darker themes and inaccuracies, contrasting it with their own writing style, which aims for a more positive tone. They conclude that while AI can mimic their style and produce creative content, it requires human oversight to ensure accuracy and emotional resonance. The piece ends with a reflection on the inevitability of AI's role in the future and the need for humans to adapt to this new reality.

- The author discusses the rapid advancements in AI and its implications for human creativity.

- They express concerns about the accuracy and emotional depth of AI-generated content.

- The piece highlights the importance of human oversight in the creative process involving AI.

- The author reflects on the nature of personality and creativity in the context of automation.

- There is an acknowledgment of the inevitability of AI's integration into daily life and work.

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By @ok_dad - 3 months
We get ever closer to software replacing humans in a vast array of jobs, people scream and shout about how we need to solve the problem of all those humans with no jobs, yet all I see is the inextricable march to obsolescence for many people, myself included.

I’ll add my shout: What’s going to happen to the obsolete humans?

By @interstice - 3 months
> what if we run out of data or scaling laws break and algorithmic progress stalls? This is a little funny because similar arguments have been made since the dawn of computers. There was even an argument made once that we had almost ‘solved’ physics. The only constant is change
By @pcgeller - 3 months
Makes me think of the scene in Player Piano where Vonnegut talks about the soul of a machine operator being pulled into the magnetic tape while their movements are recorded for automation.
By @Workaccount2 - 3 months
I don't know if it's hollywood, or hollywood just being a reflection of human's big egos that caused it, but man are people going to have a hard time accepting that emotions and creativity aren't anything particularly special.