Comment by qsera
6 days ago
Because economy. Look at marvel movies, do you think the latest one is really new? Or just a rehash of what they found working commercially? Look at all the AI generated blog posts that is flooding the internet..
LLMs might produce something new once in a long while due to blind luck, but if it can generate something that pushes the right buttons (aka not really creative) to majority of population, then that is what we will keep getting...
I don't think I have to elaborate on the "multiplying the bad" part as it is pretty well acknowledged..
That's literally all culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc
The difference is whether an entity that can "feel" is in the loop and how much they have contributed to it even if it is a remix.
I think there's demonstrably very little difference at all between human and AI outputs, and that's exactly what freaks people out about it. Else they wouldn't be so obsessed with trying to find and define what makes it different.
The Thesis of Everything is a Remix is that there is no difference in how any culture is produced. Different models will have a different flavor to their output in the same way as different people contribute their own experiences to a work.
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