| ▲ | qsera 2 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> demonstrably very little difference at all between human and AI outputs Is there "demonstrably" a lot of difference between Shakespeare and an HN comment? The point is exactly that there is no such difference. And that it enables slop to be sold as art. And that exactly is the danger. But another point is we had the even before LLMs. And LLMs just make it more explicit and makes it possible at scale. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | timschmidt an hour ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Conrad Gessner had the very same complaint in the 16th century, noting the overabundance of printed books, fretting about shoddy, trivial, or error-filled works ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/26560192 ) | |||||||||||||||||
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