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0 pointsversion_five3y ago0 comments

I can see a difference for creative works. I'd be more interested to know that I'm looking at something an artist did intentionally than something sampled from a manifold of similar works. Just like I'd rather (all things being equal) have a real drawing or painting than a print. You can make analogies in other art forms too.

And if someone is going to send me a sales pitch or email that GPT wrote, I'd rather they don't insult me and just send me the prompt.

I think tfa is a gimmick, but i see value in knowing whether I'm relating to a human brain or to a statistical model

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dale_glass3y ago

External help is not at all unusual in artwork. Eg, many artists just look for reference pictures online when they want to depict a tricky pose. Apparently the infamous Captain America picture happened because of a bad usage of a reference.

Or manga artists use things like screentones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2U4EfKCfjI

I think AI will go down that road. Yeah, lots of people will mess around with prompts, but artists able to retouch the output, and to mix and match stuff will get much better results.

tnel773y ago

You could argue that the hammer from the previous example is a creative work.

A hammer, a pair of shoes, a leather sofa, etc. They all have an element of craftsmanship and it seems like people who do that work usually take pride in it from an artistic and quality standpoint.

chii3y ago

> I'd rather they don't insult me and just send me the prompt.

and the prompt makes no sense to you, because you are not able to interpret it the way you would interpret the generated output of said prompt. The information isn't in the prompt, and never was.

hooverd3y ago

I think the correct response here would be to reply to sales emails with double the length of AI generated and leading-on text.

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