alt Hacker Newshn consumers by and large weren’t upvoting AI-written technology articles 12 months ago. The models got better, and now multiple such articles appear on the front page daily—with glowing comments.
Humanity’s aesthetics are not (apparently) all that sophisticated on average.
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andersonpico • yesterday at 8:51 PM
HN is the most concentrated accelerationist audience in the whole world and its very particular type of crowd. I don't think this translates at all to general public (well, maybe I would agree with you that the aesthetic sense of people on here is really less sophisticated than average).
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nah, you just have some anthropocentric arrogance that only humans can write well. It is nothing to do with sophistication.
Same thing with music - I honestly prefer the clanker groups, largely because some of the genres I like were clearly not explored well by actual humans. The AI songs are just better for that reason. Reddit is full of people sad/mad when they find out the groups are AIs and not humans. I went through it too but now I just enjoy the music.
I think there's probably some type of value in the preservation of human art, but to say that it's better in a vacuum is just ignoring reality.