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Originally Posted by kandwo
Any more or less decent human writer would easily outperform ChatGPT in producing insightful and interesting to read content.
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ChatGPT, definitely. GPT-4? Sure. GPT-5, or 6, or whatever comes next? Not so sure. And it's coming really fast; I'm quite convinced that by 2025 we won't be able to make the difference.
I have really ambivalent feelings about the whole thing. As a technology enthusiast, I think we can only marvel at the fast pace of technology and of what can be done that was unthinkable just a few years ago. On the other hand, when it comes to art, part of me just refuses to embrace those automated creations.
Somehow I can't see literature as just a means to entertain a reader, in the same way that I never was interested in games with procedurally generated content. Somehow I need to know that the story I'm reading is coming from an entity I can relate to, with whom I share the experience of actual life on this planet; that there was an actual intent to amuse, sadden, surprise, or awe the reader.
I'm currently reading through the Norwegian book clubs' list of the
100 greatest works in world literature, in chronological order of publication, and seeing how much great stuff has been written so far, I am almost tempted to set the line at December 2022 as the latest publication date of any book I'll ever read from now on.