alt Hacker NewsYes. In the end what mattered truly was the expression.
However - since we are humans - we also care about the artist.
Creating something without the effort previous works involved, can and do affect the context and understanding of it.
Hah - just thought of one good example: how would people feel about talking to only fans creators, if they didn’t know it was AI.
> Creating something without the effort previous works involved, can and do affect the context and understanding of it
not really. Unless you place value on _effort_, rather than be objectively outcome based. Someone digging a hole with a spoon doesn't make it a better hole than a jackhammer.
I maintain that the work itself - that is, the contents of what is being expressed - is the sole judgement of how good the works is. Not the authorship, LLM-usage or otherwise.