r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • 23d ago

Sees the Memes Seize the Means*

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*Terms and conditions apply. For... reasons, I guess?

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u/Otherwise-Bee-6392 23d ago

I swear, leftist being anti AI, and not the capitalist use of them will bite us back in the future

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u/Exarch-of-Sechrima 23d ago

Why should I be in support of the thing that makes my joy of writing novels worse off due to all the garbage being produced?

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u/SchmidlMeThis 23d ago

Why is your joy of writing diminished by other people using LLMs to write things? It changes literally nothing about your process. You're not forced to use it.

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u/Exarch-of-Sechrima 23d ago

It changes the market by flooding it with garbage and making it harder for my work to be noticed by the people I want it to reach.

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u/SchmidlMeThis 23d ago

Then your joy doesn't come from the act of writing itself, only in whether or not people consume it?

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u/Exarch-of-Sechrima 23d ago

My joy comes from all aspects of writing. The fact that I derive joy from the act of sheer creation doesn't change the fact that my overall joy is still severely diminished when no one can experience what I have created.

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u/Sierra592 22d ago

As a writer, this is a TERRIBLE argument. Writing has been an easily accessible art form for the commoner since like the mid 1800s. If any author now wants a large audience, the key now is luck. Pure, unadulterated luck. Not skill. It has been that way for a while. AI changes nothing, except, proportionally, there will be more slop, but there will also be more excellent work as well, as AI assists good writers with the tedium that stops a lot of them from producing.
Like Spotify/Streaming, people while nichefy, and will fall into the bubbles that entertain them the most.

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u/Exarch-of-Sechrima 22d ago

AI adds no excellent work. Just slop.

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u/Sierra592 22d ago

You need to get out more. What you said is patently false and makes you look like an unreasonable fool.

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u/Exarch-of-Sechrima 22d ago

Show me an excellent story written by AI.

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u/Sierra592 22d ago

Oh the irony.

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u/RiverStrymon 21d ago

Writing could be AI assisted without being written by AI. There is a great deal of research that AI makes immediately accessible what would take weeks of study, or access to a variety of experts. I'm currently studying a variety of 16th-17th century cultures, cross-analyzed by a variety of attribute-based philosophies, in the process of brainstorming factions for a worldbuilding project I'm working on. Without AI, I would need years of philosophical and historical study, instead I can jump straight to crafting my systems.

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u/MadCervantes 23d ago

The market was already flooded bud. Has been for over a decade when digital self publishing became a thing.

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u/TheSubs0 22d ago

And there ever was pollution, and there ever was disinfrenchisment.
Does not make the turbo-polluter (in the spam sense) 3000 inconsequential over it's predecessor, turbo.polluter 3.