My Immortal is a better story than Altman's AI slop | deadSimpleTech
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In this light, AI-generated "fiction" is already broken from the get-go. What makes fiction interesting and compelling is, in large part, the spark of recognition: of seeing your experience reflected by someone else, of seeing how someone else sees and experiences the world, of recognising something in a story that you can take from it and put into your own life. This - all of this - is deeply dependent on the aforementioned relationality of fiction: fiction without an author feels wrong, and almost fraudulent, as though the person who generated the story is lying to you by pretending to have had experiences, thoughts and feelings that he actually hasn't. The reaction this generates is a subconscious level of disgust and violation, as we're expected to pretend that (in this case) Sam Altman has feelings that he's never shown any evidence of being capable of.

Notable dunce Sam Altman has graced us with his new GPT model: a version that, in his telling, can write pretty good short stories. Now, while we might have reasonable grounds to doubt that, considering some of his prior claims, we’re lucky enough to find ourselves with actual evidence in this case, in the form of the story.

Reader, it is not good. In fact, I’d argue seriously that My Immortal, the notoriously awful Harry Potter fanfiction, is a better piece of writing than the story Altman’s AI tooling produced, and I can back this up.

  • xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Its sort of related to the reason that Sharknado isnt a good movie but The Room is even though they both objectively suck.

    A genuine but shitty attempt at art will always be more valuable and interesting than a soulless replication of the thing its trying to emulate.