AI written books

[ownedbycats]

AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content

Alas, I don't see "we're cheapskates" which is probably closest to the true reason.

[Quoth]

Paying for the content makes them unviable because so much content is needed. The first L in LLM is "Large". It's obscenely large, hence data centre environmental impact.

At the minute it can't be profitable, even with all the scraped free content.

[shrsv]

It has always been this way. When gutenberg came up with the printing press, his system borrowed stuff from the previous medium, scrolls, et cetera. And eBooks borrow from printed books. The newer media tend to *borrow from*, *augment* and *extend* the older media.

From scrolls -> books, the process was sort of manual and painstaking and it took a long time for the valuable things to transform into the new medium.

If there is no good way to reuse whatever humanity has built up already, I'd imagine it quite difficult to invent and work on new media.

[kandwo]

If AI is anywhere near as good at writing fiction as it is composing songs and performing them it might be game over for humanity:

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-a...-music-2023-11

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by kandwo

If AI is anywhere near as good at writing fiction as it is composing songs and performing them it might be game over for humanity

How is mediocre AI written music and fiction going to kill all humans?

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

How is mediocre AI written music and fiction going to kill all humans?

Maybe it would make people give up sex? A long term plan by the Lizard Overlords to eradicate the humans.

Yes, a crazy claim.

[neil_swann80]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Maybe it would make people give up sex? A long term plan by the Lizard Overlords to eradicate the humans..

Quoth...shhhhh. They're listening!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Maybe it would make people give up sex? A long term plan by the Lizard Overlords to eradicate the humans.

Yes, a crazy claim.

Now I know why I liked City, by Clifford D. Simak, so much.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Maybe it would make people give up sex? A long term plan by the Lizard Overlords to eradicate the humans.

Yes, a crazy claim.

I once contemplated this--as a concept, not something for myself, let's be serious--but the reality is the drive for reproduction is sorta what keeps the entire race moving forward.

Is it, sadly, the "why" of "why am I here?" People don't want to think that of course. That is nearly an existential crisis on the hoof.

They want to think that they matter, that they will contribute great poetry to the world or some silliness like that, but really...we're no different than the rest of the animals...our "purpose" is to procreate and die.

Hitch

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Hitch

...our "purpose" is to procreate and die.

Not immediately though, right? It's ok to have a brief respite between the two events, isn't it?

And now that we're on the subject... do we get to avoid the latter if we skip the former? Seems only fair to me.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Not immediately though, right? It's ok to have a brief respite between the two events, isn't it?

And now that we're on the subject... do we get to avoid the latter if we skip the former? Seems only fair to me.

Nope, but for the wimmenfolks, aging is most definitely--most definitely--tied to the former far more definitely than it is to men. Good ol' mother nature can't tell when a male has been successful in his seed-spreading endeavors--only that he made the attempt. With females, though, she knows pretty definitively and once that task is done, she doesn't care if you straight to hell.

Hitch

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Good ol' mother nature can't tell when a male has been successful in his seed-spreading endeavors--only that he made the attempt.

Prostate cancer more likely if not producing seed.

Poor old mummy octopus. Dies after one brood.

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Nope, but for the wimmenfolks, aging is most definitely--most definitely--tied to the former far more definitely than it is to men. Good ol' mother nature can't tell when a male has been successful in his seed-spreading endeavors--only that he made the attempt. With females, though, she knows pretty definitively and once that task is done, she doesn't care if you straight to hell.

Hitch

From an survival of the species perspective, a mother's 'task' isn't done until she's done her bit to ensure that grandchildren exist and are being reasonably well raised.

Or at least that is the prevailing theory as to why we women stop being able to reproduce well before the end of our natural lifespan.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by ekbell

From an survival of the species perspective, a mother's 'task' isn't done until she's done her bit to ensure that grandchildren exist and are being reasonably well raised.

Or at least that is the prevailing theory as to why we women stop being able to reproduce well before the end of our natural lifespan.

Screw the "when you stop reproducing" bit. The aging bit is the cruel part. I mean, it's like Mother Nature flips a damn switch.

It's the old BS about how men retain their looks, yadda but women don't and as nasty as it is, it's bloody true.

Hitch