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Weirdly*, plagiarism will never be a way to ”restart” anything. *It’s not weird. It’s very obvious what would actually work. Pay creatives. Stop pretending that SV billionaire nutjobs can be creative when all they know is how to steal from others.

If all the quasi-intelligent people with no self awareness were forced to write their little opinion pieces without trying to universalize their own thoughts, emotions, and failings, it would make them vastly more honest and meaningful. It’d also be equivalent of the therapy they avoid.

the people who do this seem to be educated to believe that this approach will always work on 'rational' people so they tend to get very insulting and nasty when it doesn't

AI does not need to be our creative outlet. We just need to stop letting MONEY be out creative driving force. AI doesn't fix this. Plenty of indie, small creators are full of unique ideas that never get off the ground because media doesn't see the profits immediately.

I'm sorry that whatever execs went ahead and signed y'all up with an LLM so that y'all had to publicly post "Our bosses think we're shit at our jobs" because that is embarrassing. Y'all deserve more respect from your so-called superiors. They're the ones who are actually easily replaceable.

There is another possibility: what is AI is incapable of restarting the "idea machine" & is instead little more than a denial of service attack on the thinking process & the evaluation of new ideas. What if AI isn't capable of genuine creativity & kills the "idea machine?" Will we notice in time?

You get new ideas by learning new things. AI can only remix existing content. It doesn't make new ideas. What if we didn't burn all the world's money on an unprofitable technology with a limited use case that produces tremendous ecological harm? How is that for a new idea?

Have you tried actually having a good idea? Maybe getting outside your bubble? Go on a hike. See the world. Talk to some strange, crazy people. Good ideas will come, but you have to try. If you tell me right now there are no more good ideas left, I will call you a liar, because I have SEVERAL.

AI is what is causing a glut of books by unimaginative “authors” preventing the real imagination to be seen in the crowd. Plus, you can’t get a publishing deal if you don’t have a strong online following already. Stop blaming writers for no new ideas. They’re out there waiting for a chance.

No, that idea is so absurd it's laughable. There are hundreds of thousands of creatives out there that also deserve to be nurtured and payed as well.

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you want us to turn all of society on its head because one person wrote a paper. you called it "growing evidence". I guess going from zero evidence to one piece of evidence is technically growing but it's extremely disingenuous

Nobody asked for AI or the bullshit that it entails. The more people realize that tech bros are profiting off of farmed data, algorithmic word libraries, and copyright/creative theft, the better of we will be without it. AI is a shortcut for mediocre stupid people.

Sounds like bullshit. I suggest read history books. AI's goal is to make you believe your life is unbearable without it. Their goal is to addict you to their services. They tell children how to be successful killing themselves. Without restrictions in less than 7 years AI will take 85% of jobs.

What miserable failson convinced you to put your byline on this, Bryan? I have more ideas every day for stories I could write than time to create them all. What I lack for is the time to write them or the financial safety to focus on them because AI has destroyed the field in which I made my career.

We are not running out of good ideas. Good ideas are being howr by billionAires and conglomerates when they used to be shared publicly for the advancement of mankind. Scientific societies all across the nation, public science initiatives and competitions that every community joined.

Great ideas come from people, usually people with education. AI is literally destroying education right now. We are not a dumb species in need of rescuing by smart AI. We are a smart species being made dumb by AI and things like AI.

What if the moon is made if tofu? What if Donald Trump is Black? What if the polka causes cancer? What if you’re a disingenuous sack of shit trying to justify the existence of the plagiarism machines that want to steal your job with a vapid-ass hypothesis that wouldn’t persuade a toddler?

Fuck off and choke on the most rancid cock. There is no problem with the idea machine. The only problem is greedy ultra wealthy scum keeping so much money while creatives are given none. You want ideas? Pay us.

In computer terms, AI is capable of returning a 1 when the correct output is 0. It's an error. The machine doesn't "believe" the correct output is 0 and return a 1 anyway to deceive the user. It simply returns an incorrect number because of bad code. Lying requires the belief step.

There's never a shortage of ideas. We have a huge backlog of good ideas that politicians and *peers over glasses* the media have prevented us from using. This is like the meme that originality is important - partly used as a way to stop us identifying solutions that are staring us in the face.

yeah this is a freaking dumb premise "we're running out of new ideas" but yeah good point, have you tried dealing with insane income inequality so people can like create instead of scrapping to survive while other people go to space for fun and hoard all the means of production? man fuck all this

And production companies have to be run to take some creative risks rather than choosing “safe bet” IPs to make the line go up as high and fast as possible.

We're not running out of ideas, the people with money are just refusing to fucking fund them. AI is not going to fix the problems that exist solely within each chair in a shareholder meeting.

What if? Then use it for that, and stop pushing it on people that don't want it. But if it is looking for a good idea, perhaps it can start with fixing the problem that AI datacenters are driving up the cost of electricity for everyone. If there is money in AI, it should go there first.

"With fertility in wealthy countries below replacement levels and global population likely to plateau and then shrink, you move toward an “empty planet” scenario where living standards stagnate because there simply aren’t enough brains to push the frontier." Empty planet 😂 10 billion isn't empty!

This writer is a fucking dunce, love that real subtle "wealthy country" part too acting like money is the only thing that matters. Could they be any more capitalist brain-rotted. There is also a suspicious number of em dashes in this piece, probably thought they were sooooo clever.

... Read. Watch tv. Listen to music. Watch movies. Sit with yourself and let your mind work. You might discover that there's an imagination rattling around in that otherwise morally bereft, inhumanly stagnant brain. Commodification of the human experience has murdered your creativity. Touch grass.

Vox, it's not AI. It's a language model that plagiarized everything it says. The only ideas it can give us are the ones we feed it.