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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 106 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like the way Ted Chiang puts it:

Some might say that the output of large language models doesn’t look all that different from a human writer’s first draft, but, again, I think this is a superficial resemblance. Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say. That’s what directs you during rewriting, and that’s one of the things lacking when you start with text generated by an A.I.

There’s nothing magical or mystical about writing, but it involves more than placing an existing document on an unreliable photocopier and pressing the Print button.

I think our materialist culture forgets that minds exist. The output from writing something is not just “the thing you wrote”, but also your thoughts about the thing you wrote.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tons of shit games are going to have lots of dialogue written by AI. It’s very likely that those games would have had shit dialogue anyway.

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but human-written shit still had that human touch. It could be unintentionally funny, it could be a mixed bag that reaches unexpected heights at times. AI writing is just the bland kind of bad, not the interesting kind of bad.

[–] SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Great point. There's no opportunity for "so bad it's good". The Room wouldn't have been a thing if Tommy used AI.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right, Lisa!

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[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All your base are belong to us.

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[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It would probably have been less shit though.

[–] four@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It would probably just have been less dialogue

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago

Which would be totally fine.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

They already said less shit.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 3 points 2 months ago

Eh, we're talking about the bottom of the barrel here. I'm thinking there will be fewer typos, but also an occasional "as a LLM" slip-up, so about the same quality as before.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the reason so many AI bros are conservative is that conservatives have historically had really bad taste in art/media, so they see the drivel AI creates and think, “oh wow, it looks just like what the artists make,” not realizing that they don’t have the eye to see what it’s missing.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Behind the Bastards had a different take. A lot of fascist movements get wierdly focussed on futurism and try to portray their movements as belonging in said future. Unfortunately I can't remember the exact episodes this was mentioned

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Makes sense when you think about it

You're running an oppressive dictatorship. You still need enough people to support you to keep the thing going. What do you do? Make a bunch of people believe you're going to improve their lives. How do you do that? First, you find an enemy to blame for everything. For Nazi Germany it was Jews, for the US now it's mostly Latinos, but really all foreigners. But that alone might not be enough. So what else do you do? Pretend you're doing everything economically and technologically to make things better for "the right people".

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[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Writer having toyed with AI, here : yeah, AI writing sucks. It is consensual and bland, never goes into unexpected territory, or completely fails to understand human nature.

So, we'd better stop calling AI "intelligence". It's text-prediction machine learning on steroïds, nothing more, and the fact that we're still calling that "intelligence" says how gullible we all are.

It's just another speculative bubble from the tech bros, as cryptos were, except this time the tech bros have made their nazi coming out.

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I remember reading a longer post on lemmy. The person was describing their slow realization that the political beliefs they were raised with were leading down a dark path. It was a process that took many years, and the story was full of little moments where cracks in his world view widened and the seed of doubt grew.

And someone who was bored/overwhelmed with having to read a post over three sentences long fed the story into AI to make a short summary. They then posted that summary as a "fixed your post, bro" moment. So basically all the humanity removed. Reminds me of that famous "If the Gettysburg Address were a PowerPoint" https://norvig.com/Gettysburg/

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Sounds like an interesting read, got a link to said post?

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

More Larian Aura farming. Please take a break you're already full maxed out for community respect its actually getting unfair for other game developers.

[–] trslim@pawb.social 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

AI is just a marketing term, there's nothing intelligent about it. Its simply Large Language Models, databases that predict what should go next. Its like asking the prediction bar when you are typing to write a story.

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[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Guy says robot can't replace him. News at 11.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean it can, 10% quality and units sold at 1% cost increases your profits by 10x

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Implying people are happy to buy the shit, which isn't likely, especially in a competitive environment.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People buy AAA games all the time. Look at Starfield. Garbage game, still sold well.

[–] Mister_Feeny@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Starfield is estimated to have sold 3 millions copies. Baldur's gate 3, 15 million. Microsoft/Bethesda marketing budgets makes a difference, but not being garbage makes a much bigger difference.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Well yeah, I'm not going to argue that a well made game that respects the player isn't going to do well. But that doesn't matter to the publishers and their shareholders when they can pump out AI slop garbage year after year and still have people that drink it up. Just look at the yearly shooters and sports games, they sell enough.

Besides, what happens when this sort of slop has been normalised? Look at the mobile market, no one bats an eye at the intensely predatory microtransactions, and you'll even find people defending things like gacha games.

There was a time where people scoffed at the notion of paying $2~ for some shitty cosmetics, but now people don't even blink at the idea. Hell, it's downright cheap in some cases. The AAA industry just has to slop things up for long enough for people to stop caring, because they will stop caring and then continue to shell out for the dubious privilege of guzzling their mediocre, uninspiring garbage.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

Get your slop 'ere! Fresh from the data center!

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

You can make it stylized dialogue but it's just surface mannerisms. Underneath it's still the same bland AI

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