I guess this could be a “the grass is greener on the other side” kind of thing, but, honestly, I just think I’m right when I say it is y’all creatives who are the most blessed, lol. With ChatGPT and other “AI,” pretty much everything I know how to do is produceable/replicable without me or any other human, and AI can pump shit out in a matter of seconds. But creative writing…… That it cannot really do, at least not with any “soul.” I’ve read AI attempts at short stories, and everything just screams derivative (as it is, at its essence).
What y’all do is truly inimitable. If I could, I would pay y’all all the money in the world. 😞❤️
Trust me when I say engaging and commenting is all the payment we need. It's for the love of it, not for payment.
However we might need to agree to disagree, since I vehemently detest anything and everything AI, no matter how it's used, and therefore will always believe human contributions to be more valuable.
Anything you write will, at its core, have soul. You just have to feed it a little. Be it research papers or speeches or creative writing. You and your soul and whatever you create are not replaceable by a machine without a beating heart.
Actually, I agree with your final paragraph. Even when I am writing something that’s relatively dry and straightforward, there is *something* in the overall product that, ultimately, is reflective of me (I think what we emphasize and try really hard to impress onto others is indicative of what we value, prolly). But, I guess my initial reply was responding hard to the idea of how “marketable” “neutral writing” is. I, too, detest mostly everything AI (ie. everything except for pattern recognition in the sciences, especially in the medical field) as so much of it is explicitly founded on stolen content. (It really is unreal how bald-faced OpenAI’s lies were in the beginning before they were forced to admit, that, yes, they stole artistic content without creators’ consent…. And then suffered exactly ZERO CONSEQUENCES for that.)
This is totally following the tangent now, but I had to leave my job/career in elementary education after contracting covid, which developed into long covid, producing longstanding symptoms that have disabled me to the point where I could not reliably continue as a teacher. Every so often, I’ll check online job listings for teaching-adjacent gigs, and, inevitably, there are so many “opportunities” to train AI to produce curricula and even edu-journalistic content. I block that every listing when I see that shit. While it makes me feel a tiny bit better, knowing I’ve removed something so disturbing from my feed…I also feel like it’s yanking out weeds…. If not this company, it’ll be that company tomorrow, and yet another after that.
This place (the U.S.) is so fkn cooked, it’s so hard to bear tbh….. and that’s why I’m here, on ao3, in desperate need of stories/narratives that are truly human and move the spirit. Daily life is full of things that sucks the stuff out of you.
Oh man yea no, it really is a wasteland out there. I can't claim anything to do with the US as I am European but even still, hearing my peers use Chatgpt for everything "because it's easier" while they study psychology of all things makes me want to rip out my hair and perhaps hit my head against a wall several times.
While yes, I do forget the use of Ai in the medical field and agree that it's useful there, I can not hate the rest of it enough. Especially given how quickly it's become normalised and encouraged.
To move away from the gloom we're heading towards here, I can just say hang in there I suppose. The stories aren't going anywhere. The whimsy isn't going anywhere and even the sadness of a good fic is probably more fulfilling than the sadness we see on the news every day.
Ai will prevail, or it might not (hopefully) but so will we. There's always more lesbian fic to be written, through tears and/or sheer delight. Even if it is escapism, it's an escape that thankfully brings people together in a way little else can. I don't actually know where I'm going with this.
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