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0 pointsRetric6d ago0 comments

My mother has started watching 100% AI generated stories on YouTube. They are good enough to be entertaining even if they include random errors like messing up the main character’s name.

The thing is the creative economy is all about people’s attention and pocketbooks, it doesn’t need to be great just good enough.

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floren6d ago

> My mother has started watching 100% AI generated stories on YouTube.

God, I'm sorry

grey-area6d ago

Deeply troubling for so many reasons.

Please try to get her to stop.

abc123abc1236d ago

What's the problem? If I enjoy some show, material or text, if it brings me value or a brief moment of happiness, I could care less if it was made by an AI or a human.

This racism against AI-generated stuff has to stop. If not, we'll have a butlerian jihad on our hands that will set back prosperity, development and science for decades, perhaps centuries.

People mention the artists... ohh, boohoo... either do it on your free time, improve your performance and selling skills or move to another job.

It's not my job to slave away only so that artists can day dream and produce stuff that no one cares about.

whilenot-dev6d ago

I think we need to start separating such concepts like entertainment from the ones of enjoyment, fascination, function, interest, satisfaction, beauty and the sublime a bit more. Art theory literally has books on these things, as they all fall under the topic of aesthetics. Do you really enjoy a frozen pizza from the oven at home in the same way as a freshly made pizza from an authentic pizza oven?

I always care about the processes involved, especially if any human work is involved, from all its accuracies to its errors. For me, interesting things happen while we balance our understandings with a certain amount of holism and a certain amount of reductionism. Putting it on either side of the scale, like your holistic statements, is just pure ideology, and that doesn't hold any merit in reality and is honestly just bland, repetitive and boring.

RetricOP6d ago

> Do you really enjoy a frozen pizza from the oven at home in the same way as a freshly made pizza from an authentic pizza oven?

Yes absolutely. I even measure them on the same scale and sometimes the frozen pizza wins.

I’ve literally got an authentic wood brining pizza oven at home and it can cook some great pizza, but that doesn’t mean its output is somehow in an untouchable category it’s just food. Further, with access to the real thing novelty goes away and it needs to sand on its own.

simonw6d ago

Racism?

aceazzameen6d ago

Is this a parody?

mcfedr6d ago

whats the appeal of that kind of content? its objectively worse than real content, and its not like there is a shortage of real content

ryandrake6d ago

I think the elderly are particularly vulnerable. I also have at least one family member whose social media feed is 100% slop, they are blissfully unaware, and if you told them, they wouldn’t believe you.

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