ann-arcana

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Writer, game designer, engineer, bisexual tranthing, FFXIV addict

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The difference in response between generative art theft, and generative text theft, makes me feel some kind of way and I don't like it.

Especially because even I hadn't thought about it until recently and I'm a damn writer.

To be clear: I think the backlash against so-called "AI art" is good, and deserved.

But why didn't that happen for generative text? We got whole websites running on this now and nary a peep of protest except about it's perceived quality. Have years of social media just devalued our perception of words?


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I think the reason is because most of the text on the internet is already conceived of as disposable, unnecessary or actively malicious. The reason for that, I believe, is the ubiquity of inauthentic 'text'-- SEO blog spam, affiliate marketing masquerading as product reviews, actual spam, regurgitated & scrambled wikipedia entries, etc. Lots of people have pointed out that this avalanche of garbage text has dramatically decreased the usefulness of search engines. Since most text can pretty much be safely disregarded when you aren't 100% sure if it came from a human being authentically sharing their own views already, most text content is by default in the "ignore" category. Which means that the visibility of generative text is way lower. Of the fraction of text content that is not ignored, I think only a fraction of that gets read and engaged with fully.

However, I have heard complaints about AI translation from translators. Turns out there's lots of translation work where it doesn't really matter if the translation is accurate or coherent as long as they can say there is one.

Oh yeah, AI translation is a plague. Fuck I'm still mad about the GT switch to ML because it got worse, and by a lot, and more sexist and racist too! ... but it presumably meant not having to pay a team of linguists and engineers, so they went forward with it anyway.

The one other case I do recall seeing outrage was MSN's bullshit "AI news" thingamie, which seems to have just been replaced with an algo feed that auto-scrapes other news sites instead.