This is actually one of the reasons I’m skeptical of anyone who claims they can *definitely* tell when writing is AI. LLMs create mediocre formulaic sameness, but so do humans. We, like the algorithms, keep trying to replicate whats worked before. Which I don’t think is a bad thing, we just want to be heard or connect or share what we love, but it is missing something when the methods for trying to get there become restraints.
Exactly! Writing this crystallized why an obsession over "best practices" and data is the death of originality. So when people say that AI lacks soul, it's this consistent individual personality or artistic flair. Things written with AIs often sound good in theory, but fall apart once you think about them—and are all so forgettable.
It also sounds like a similar issue with many other ventures—when being “successful” or getting views or making a profit becomes more important than quality or the original value. Not only the measurement becoming the goal, but the wrong goal. (I can’t say if that’s whats happening at Ted but it seems to happen often.)
I think it's happening in so many places. "Number of views" might be different than "how influential it is." Or 'number of followers' doesn't correlate with quality of work. But we make assumptions about everything based on this easily-assessed information.
This is actually one of the reasons I’m skeptical of anyone who claims they can *definitely* tell when writing is AI. LLMs create mediocre formulaic sameness, but so do humans. We, like the algorithms, keep trying to replicate whats worked before. Which I don’t think is a bad thing, we just want to be heard or connect or share what we love, but it is missing something when the methods for trying to get there become restraints.
Exactly! Writing this crystallized why an obsession over "best practices" and data is the death of originality. So when people say that AI lacks soul, it's this consistent individual personality or artistic flair. Things written with AIs often sound good in theory, but fall apart once you think about them—and are all so forgettable.
It also sounds like a similar issue with many other ventures—when being “successful” or getting views or making a profit becomes more important than quality or the original value. Not only the measurement becoming the goal, but the wrong goal. (I can’t say if that’s whats happening at Ted but it seems to happen often.)
I think it's happening in so many places. "Number of views" might be different than "how influential it is." Or 'number of followers' doesn't correlate with quality of work. But we make assumptions about everything based on this easily-assessed information.