this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
839 points (98.9% liked)
Microblog Memes
10107 readers
2962 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This is a perfect example of why AI will succeed no matter how mind-numbingly stupid it is: it will give people the warm and fuzzies without having to do jack shit. Yes, they "prompted" the LLM. Yes, they "edited" the output, and yes it was published on the biggest fucking commercial website to exist in the history of man. All of those "achievements" pale in comparison to writing an actual book with your own creativity and words and finesse. But since most people can't expect themselves or their offspring to pull off such a difficult feat, this 'second-place' surrogate will do just fine and so we will all pay with what few resources we haven't already annihilated in order to keep the gears grinding a little longer. ๐
I weep. It was excruciatingly hard already to find someone interested in your work to bring it to market, agents literally drown in awesome books they can't publish profitably. A perfect example - A Confederacy Of Dunces - couldn't find an agent/publisher until after the writer's death, then immediately won a pulitzer. this was the late 60's-70s iirc.
Now add the torrent of new writers with an interconnected world wide network.
Then add the tsunami of AI garbage.
We're going to lose masterpieces because of that tsunami, and instead we'll get AI garbage.
Not just in this field. Crap is drowning out real work in the sciences as well as arts. Both in terms of where funding goes as well as the output. It's a cultural disaster.
scientific publishing was hurting bad (signal to noise and ethics issues) before AI... yeah, this is gonna be really bad.
The web also got bad before AI. The last time you could do a web search and find pages written by enthusiastic experts and hobbyists just sharing what they have to say on the topic of your query was, like, 2005. Then, it flipped. The advent of web ads meant people could easily make money from publishing websites. Sounds great. Except it brought in people whose main goal was making money, not sharing what they love. So then the results of your queries are links to pages covering the topic in the most superficial way and the author is a total nobody if you even know who the author is. There are businesses who figure out what users are searching for and then vomit out websites targeting those popular queries.
The same happened to YouTube. Like 99% of YouTube at this point has to be video essay channels with clickbait videos on superficial topics way longer than they need to be and released on a very frequent schedule. Early YouTube was one hit wonders. Ain't no incentive to publish regularly without ad revenue.
The good was being drown out by the bad before AI. AI is only accelerating it.
The participants in this are so selfishly rotten. I can't imagine I'd be able to sleep at night.
This generation of AI won't "succeed", I will be surprised if any current companies survive the eventual bubble pop. The LLMs will survive obviously as any other useful tech does.
With the amount they have been funded, borrowed and valued at they need to replace a mass of workers with "Agentic AI" to make the trillions of return they expect/need in like 4 years from now. LLMs doing this is a pipe dream, more GPUs won't make an LLM sentient. And every other use case is a losing proposition for these companies.
that doesn't mean it will be bought and read, not in the large numbers, so hold your horses there.
and i have to say i find the story not very trustworthy. i can't imagine that llm would generate such long text and it would make enough sense that editing it wouldn't need more work than writing the text from scratch.
Lol show me one example where ai is decent. It is nowhere close to talented people. Maybe on uni student level