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This is exactly the stance that confuses me. Why don't want read a great book?

If I told you that The Great Gatsby was, in fact, written by a timetravelling AI, would it seize to be a great book for you?

I dunno, I guess I'm weird in that I think of AI as a tool. I don't care if an author uses pen and paper, a stick and sand, or AI, the end result is the only thing that matters to me.

Now, currently, that means I don't like AI stuff either, but only because it is so unremittingly bland and boring. That might change in the future. Possibly.

What is it about computer-written that is so off-putting on a conceptual level?




> This is exactly the stance that confuses me. Why don't want read a great book?

I read great books every day. I have absolutely no hope of exhausting my supply of great (human-created) books. I'm not interested in discussing the hypothetical world where human authors don't exist.

> What is it about computer-written that is so off-putting on a conceptual level?

If you don't understand you never will. Consuming art, to me, is engaging with the creator of that art. And I don't want to engage with a computer program.




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