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0 pointsninetyninenine1y ago0 comments

Discounting fraud... what if the AI produces something genuinely better. Genuinely moving you to tears? What then?

Imagine your favorite movie, the most moving book. You read it, it changed you, then you found out it was an AI that generated it in a mere 10 seconds.

Artificial sentimentality is useless in the face of reality. That human endeavor is simply data points along an multi-dimensional best fit curve.

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Zamiel_Snawley1y ago

That’s a challenging hypothetical.

I think it would feel hollowed out, disingenuous.

It feels too close to being a rat with a dopamine button, meaningless hedonism.

I haven’t thought it through particularly thoroughly though, I’d been interested in hearing other opinions. These philosophical questions quickly approach unanswerable.

ninetyninenineOP1y ago

>These philosophical questions quickly approach unanswerable.

With the current trendline of AI progress in the last decade the question has a high possibility of being answered by being actualized in reality.

It's not a random question either. With AI quickly entrenching itself into every aspect of human creation from art, music, to chip design, this is all I can think about.

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