Comment by dwaltrip
1 month ago
AI writing sucks because it doesn't have a voice. It's not trying to say anything. Human writers are interesting because they offer a unique perspective from their lived experience.
It also struggles to maintain deep coherence. This is all probably related. It might be very hard or impossible to have deep coherence without human-like goals, memory, or sense of self.
I don't think lived experience matters too much to me. In some sense, AI has very unique "lived" experience, which is what creates the voice it uses ("doesn't have a voice" seems like an impossibility to me by definition).
I find AI very "human-esque", and its "self-reported" phenomenology is very entertaining to me, at least.
I also think AI writing might feel trashy also because most human writing is trashy.
The LLM “voice” is the average of Reddit, and is therefore irredeemable.
Yeah that's somewhat close to what I meant, though there's an irony here in that your comment (and this one) are pretty reddit-esque.
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