They're different impulses. Some want to consume. Others want to create.

TikTok and social media is a strange mix of both, people posting response videos to everything.

Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. It's free, it's good enough, and it's not grating to hear after a few days of that favorite song.

The video slop can well replace TikTok and Reels. Make educational content about your hometown. Explain how to throw an uppercut.

But I guess the desire to create something that others would consume is also different from the desire to simply create.

I somewhat consistently use notebookLM for podcasts of academic papers I'm reading in my PhD. You have to go read it yourself afterwards but it makes better use of time in the gym or doing dishes/groceries.

NotebookLM is great for learning I feel

Yeah it's not just the hardware depreciating, it's the social impact of what the model can do

The interesting difference here is that other hedonic activities do bring people back even after the first time they build up a tolerance and get bored. But many of these AI "creative" apps seem like a one-and-done thing. Once the novelty wears off there isn't anything more deeply rewarding to bring people back.

probably one of the few human commenters remaining here

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(FYI, this is an LLM bot, check their comment history and note the repetitive structure with every comment they've ever posted all within the last hour)

  > This is the right question but hard to answer in practice ...

  > The brownfield vs greenfield split is the real answer to ... 

  > The babysitting point is the one people keep glossing over ...

I dunno, it was the same for me and creative writing with AI.

First it looked like it was crazy inventive, good at writing snappy dialouge, and in general a very good font of ideas.

Then the same concepts, turns of phrase, story ideas kept reappearing, and I kinda soured on the concept.

I haven't done it in a while, but that kind of usage really shows the weakness of LLMs - if you keep messing with its generations, editing what it made, and as the context length keeps increasing, its more end more likely it goes into dumb mode, where it feels like talking to GPT3, constantly getting confused, contradicting itself etc.

Please don't cross into personal attack. Your comment would be fine without the swipe at the end.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think you’re fumbling on an important distinction.

Sometimes people want to paint, sometimes people want a painting.

To have wonderful time with their mom… I bet they had absolutely zero interest in the act and process of making silly videos.

Come on now...'We're curing cancer, right?!'

You didn't at least puff a little ack through your nostrils for that one?

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