Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
@isabellelevent
Maybe the creative work is now to figure out ways to nudge AIs into being weird and interesting rather than producing inane imitations of the most ordinary human writing
With so much focus on creation, few systems consider revision. Revision—this is where the average writer gets the most outside help.
Academically, this is a collision of everything from computer science and art history to media studies to disruptive innovation to labor economics, and no one of these disciplines seems sufficient to cover the topic.
Allen feels the same way. “I believe if you focus on the negative with AI, then that will come true,” he says. “And if we get more people focusing on the good and positivity that we can do with it, then that will come true.”
Second, we should create a legal regime that can make our data’s collective value something we can bargain over as a group.
Prompting and
As more artists gain access to AI and take up the tools, artists will have a whole new look — both how they look making art and how their art develops.
A recurring theme in participant feedback was that the language model lacked taste and intentionality...In contrast, good writers are skilled not only in producing but also discerning good language. In other words, they have taste, the ability to decide why one sentence is interesting while another is not.