Comment on Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 hours agoBut I’ve never seen it generate so much as half a page before it writes something that requires editing.
Most human writers require editing well before five column inches. Not trying to give a pass to LLMs, but humans don’t produce perfect output, either.
And there’s an old saw: “Everyone needs an editor … especially editors.” That’s why creative work is collaborative.
Yeah the problem is pretty much everything AI does requires collaboration with an actual human expert. But we’ve got people who think it can be a therapist without an actual therapist, artist without collaborating with an artist, coder, author, marketing strategist, lawyer, doctor…
This isn’t me belittling AI, I think it can do some really incredible things, but the way I see it, everything it does requires actual cognitive ability and domain knowledge.
I’ve used ChatGPT for work, just asking it to paraphrase original sources so I’m blinded from the original wording ahead of doing my rewrite. One paragraph at a time, it works great (I check against the source); feed it a full story at once, and holy shit, do you not have anything reliable. At that point, you’re spending more time checking and verifying than you saved by using it in the first place.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 hours ago
And why sometimes when a writer becomes immensely successful the quality of their output suffers - they become "too big to edit."
The Star Wars prequel trilogy is a case in point, IMO. Back on the original trilogy George Lucas had people who could tell him "no, that's a bad idea."