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0 pointsbschwindHN1y ago0 comments

Yes, because if someone has a tool that creates "something incredible", then everyone will be able to generate "something incredible" and then it all becomes not incredible.

It's like having god-mode in a game, it all becomes boring very quickly when you can have whatever you want.

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chii1y ago· 2 in thread

> everyone will be able to generate "something incredible" and then it all becomes not incredible.

no, that's just your standard moving up.

There is an absolute scale for which you can measure, and ai is approaching a point where it is an acceptable level.

Imagine if you applied your argument to quality of life - it used to be that nobody had access to easy, cheap clean drinking water. Now everybody has access to it. Is it not an incredible achievement, rather than it not being incredible just because it is common?

That quote from the movie "the incredibles", where the villain claims that if everybody is super, then nobody is, was your gist of the argument. And it is a childish one imho.

bschwindHNOP1y ago

It is equally childish to compare the engineering of our modern water and plumbing systems with the automated generation of virtual textured polygons.

People don't get tired of good clean water because we NEED it to survive.

But oh, another virtual world entirely thought up by a machine? Throw it on the pile. We're going to get bored of it, and it will quickly become not incredible.

chii1y ago

> we NEED it to survive.

plenty of people in the world still drink crappy water, and they survive.

You don't _need_ it, you want it, because it's much more comfortable.

But when something becomes a "need" as you described it, you think of it differently. Just like how you don't _need_ electricity to survive, but it's so ingrained that you now think of it as a need.

> We're going to get bored of it, and it will quickly become not incredible.

exactly, but i have already said this in my original post - your standards just moved up.

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nuancebydefault1y ago

If you follow that reasoning, anything that improves or anything that makes creation easier, produces slop.

Personally I'm not in favor of calling AI output slop, just because it is AI generated. You might then as well say that any electronic music is slop and any food prepared with help of machinery is crap. It might be crap or not, the automatedness is irrelevant.

The outputs of AI that I see today in the form of text, images or video don't look like slop to me.

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