From Ezra Klein: AI might be able to churn out content faste...

From Ezra Klein:

AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that takes work that’s decent and can turn it into something great.

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From Ezra Klein: AI might be able to churn out content faste...
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Nick Papanicolaou added
AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.
from Elizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it
sari and added
If what you want is a content-marketing blog post that serves more to incrementally improve Google search results than to be read by an actual human, AI might help. If you want to think deeply through a subject and synthesize knowledge, then communicate that knowledge to others, it’s going to be better if you just struggle through the painful proce... See more
from My writing robot by Kyle Chayka
sari added
i think this will change over time, but agree this sums up the current state of AI writing tools.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who misses old school human curation. For me, it’s more about wanting a connection moreso than valuing the actual thing being shared. I think this trend is accelerating. With generative AI and the ever-present algorithm that has sucked itself into every facet of our life, a part of the response to it will result i... See more
from The Human Medium is the Human Message by Simon de la Rouviere
aron and added
There’s a lot of speculation and rhetoric these days about whether AI democratizes creativity or advances it. However, it is abundantly clear to me that both are true.

On the one hand, humanity’s creative confidence for humanity has gone up as people of all ages are able to prompt whatever is in their mind’s eye and express themselves visually. We’... See more
from The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions by Scott Belsky
sari and added
Writing isn’t just how I communicate ideas or discoveries; it’s how I come up with them in the first place.
from My writing robot by Kyle Chayka
sari and added
AI’s creative contribution also enhances the creative performance of old intellectuals, because the bottom line is not the number of ideas. It’s how well you choose the final idea and how well you execute on refining it. The more raw ideas we dump into that sausage maker, the more flavorful the final sausage. (And whether you find this metaphor cre... See more
from AI Is More Creative Than 99% of Humans — on One Metric
Justin Reidy added
Will AI be used to produce amazing essays? (which could infantilize writers)
Or will AI be used to produce amazing writers (rewarding their effort)
In the end, it’s hopefully some kind of fusion. AI editors can help writers learn, upskill, improve, think, experiment, etc. Writers will still do the work & write manual prose. Yet, they might also b
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Michael Dean added

From Ezra Klein: AI might be able to churn out content faste...

from Elizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it

from My writing robot by Kyle Chayka

from The Human Medium is the Human Message by Simon de la Rouviere

from The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions by Scott Belsky

from My writing robot by Kyle Chayka

from AI Is More Creative Than 99% of Humans — on One Metric