Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Ted Chiang and Nick Cave said
taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.
AI writing Prose a model wrote: what gives it away, what it does to reading, and whether anyone should publish it.
Their wordsOne is to take an average of the choices that other writers have made, as represented by text found on the Internet; that average is equivalent to the least interesting choices possible, which is why A.I.-generated text is often really bland.
Where this was said
↗Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Artnewyorker.com
All 11 korrents from this piecethis one is 2nd
Their wordsWhat ChatGPT is, in this instance, is replication as travesty. ChatGPT may be able to write a speech or an essay or a sermon or an obituary but it cannot create a genuine song.
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