Post #4188637
2026-07-29 08:06 UTC
So often I see the Puritan Work Ethic sneaking into #AntiAI rhetoric. The idea is that human toil is inherently valuable. That #AI displacing human labor is bad.
No. So far AI is only able to replace content mills and similar kinds of soul crushing work.
This is so wildly misplaced. If AI were capable of writing a novel (which it isn't) then it should do that, and human storytellers would still be useful because the technology is inherently and mathematically mediocre.
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@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space 2026-07-29 08:11
Mediocre? Yeah. Again, expert here. #AI is fundamentally incapable of replacing Art because art _inherently_ requires divergence. The problem with that? Next-token cross-entropy loss. What is that? It rewards the #LLM for predicting what a human would likely have put as the next token. If you work with AI a lot, especially in prediction mode, you will find that it's quite easy to generate a string of tokens it finds "surprising" (perplexity for language nerds). 11/