Comment by Planktonne
11 hours ago
> Artificial Intelligence is writing about as well as humans
This is just untrue.
There's a lot of money in claiming it's true, with varying levels of hedging and insincerity, but AI writing follows the pattern of AI everything else: if you're not competent to judge quality, then you think it is high quality.
That's a scary notion: what happens when the money claiming that AI writing is good, surpasses the one claiming otherwise?
I think that's been the case for a while. We get
- Countless poorly-written AI books released
- Many, many articles saying that people should stop complaining and AI writing is just as good
Author gives an example with a bidding war and multimillion dollar advance.
Which is an excellent example of AI writing being potentially lucrative, but not good. Also note that that is its own counter-example: it wasn't published, and the advance was retracted.
> it wasn't published, and the advance was retracted.
Not because they didn't think the writing was high quality. The quality of the writing is what led to the bidding war. The advance was retracted because the publisher can't get exclusivity if copyright protections don't hold due to the novel being AI generated.
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