I don’t really see the appeal. The metaphor of a man paying another to fuck his mistress comes to mind. “Centaur writing” won’t be competitive for long, anyway. Prompting will be a matter of selection for a single user. And a predictive model of one’s preferences will outsource even that near-vestigial organ of creativity. Eager Readers In Your Area had it backwards. Creative acts will be done by humans and judged by AIs, like so many gymgoers running on treadmills. A ridiculous act that may be necessary for some people’s health, but there may be more dignity in just evolving into a sponge.
The appeal for me is simple: I’m not a professional writer. I have a lot of ideas and concepts that I want to explore. But writing is so toilsome and time-consuming that I basically never do it (I mean fiction; i still write my own posts.)
So all these ideas would go unexpressed if I didn’t go Centaur. I do it for myself: I’m usually content to keep the story to myself after I write it. But if I ever published, I would credit Sonnet with 50% of the work (although I know it’s extremely unpopular to claim having used AI for creative writing.)
i am just mad/coping. is fine. utter hypocracy on my part, given i care little for visual art and music. It is one thing to see the train coming and another to feel a small rumble beneath your feet.
I don’t really see the appeal. The metaphor of a man paying another to fuck his mistress comes to mind. “Centaur writing” won’t be competitive for long, anyway. Prompting will be a matter of selection for a single user. And a predictive model of one’s preferences will outsource even that near-vestigial organ of creativity. Eager Readers In Your Area had it backwards. Creative acts will be done by humans and judged by AIs, like so many gymgoers running on treadmills. A ridiculous act that may be necessary for some people’s health, but there may be more dignity in just evolving into a sponge.
The appeal for me is simple: I’m not a professional writer. I have a lot of ideas and concepts that I want to explore. But writing is so toilsome and time-consuming that I basically never do it (I mean fiction; i still write my own posts.)
So all these ideas would go unexpressed if I didn’t go Centaur. I do it for myself: I’m usually content to keep the story to myself after I write it. But if I ever published, I would credit Sonnet with 50% of the work (although I know it’s extremely unpopular to claim having used AI for creative writing.)
i am just mad/coping. is fine. utter hypocracy on my part, given i care little for visual art and music. It is one thing to see the train coming and another to feel a small rumble beneath your feet.