Christoph Heilig tests 18 different OpenAI models including GPT-5.4, finds all of them rate some forms of pseudo-literary nonsense generations higher than coherent prose in every case, and this is not getting better over time.
I couldn’t find examples of the highly rated poems. Is this analogical to those image generators that created the dog-shaped monstrosities under the assumption that “more eyes = more dog”?
If AI makes everyone twice as productive, one possibility is that everyone works half as hard. Another possibility is everyone works twice as hard, on top of being twice as productive, because half of people are about to get fired, or people see that you’ve completed your other work faster and suddenly give you more tasks.
This is the usual backward-bending labor supply curve, only typically we see it from the perspective of “what happens if we start paying people more”, but this time we see it from the opposite end.
Before the age of massive unemployment and starvation, there will be the age of massive voluntary overtime and slavery as people try to avoid falling into the former. Say goodbye to 40 hour workweeks, but not in the sense that Keynes predicted.
The standard cope for “what happens if 1 person is able to do the work of 100 using an AI?” is “try to be that 1 person, and you can get super rich”. But it could be more like “what happens if 1 person is able to do the work of 100, but there are 3 out of the 100 people who are able to do that?”, and suddenly you may find yourself competing not just for productivity but also for low cost and voluntary overtime.
I couldn’t find examples of the highly rated poems. Is this analogical to those image generators that created the dog-shaped monstrosities under the assumption that “more eyes = more dog”?
This is the usual backward-bending labor supply curve, only typically we see it from the perspective of “what happens if we start paying people more”, but this time we see it from the opposite end.
Before the age of massive unemployment and starvation, there will be the age of massive voluntary overtime and slavery as people try to avoid falling into the former. Say goodbye to 40 hour workweeks, but not in the sense that Keynes predicted.
The standard cope for “what happens if 1 person is able to do the work of 100 using an AI?” is “try to be that 1 person, and you can get super rich”. But it could be more like “what happens if 1 person is able to do the work of 100, but there are 3 out of the 100 people who are able to do that?”, and suddenly you may find yourself competing not just for productivity but also for low cost and voluntary overtime.