logoalt Hacker News

tkdb • today at 7:43 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Unpopular take: AI slop is actually just slop. (Most) people ultimately don't or won't care if writing or other media is partially or wholly authored by AI. Same with art. I feel as much righteous indignation as the typical person as I write that, I think. "I want humans making art that makes me feel these profound feelings!" I say to myself. But if I don't know who the creator is, all I have to go on is the art.

A sort of related concept is that I may dislike, actively hate, or be completely indifferent to some of the authors and artists whose work I love. I love their work, but I may not love them. I may choose to spend time with people whose art I dislike. So it is with AI. I dislike the idea of AI, so I claim to dislike the art.

As amazing as AI writing is, we are still in the uncanny valley, and that is why we hate it.

Imagine the holodecks in Star Trek, which for my argument I'll consider to be significantly more advanced AI, and significantly closer to crawling out of the uncanny valley... the people using them ultimately hit the same wall of "oh but this falls short of real human experience."


Replies

guitarlimeo • today at 8:40 PM

If AI art becomes indistinguishable, then art made by humans will keep its value or go up in value as it will be infinitely more scarce than infinitely generatable AI art generated for cents.

nfw2 • today at 8:05 PM

> As amazing as AI writing is, we are still in the uncanny valley, and that is why we hate it.

Or perhaps, people notice the AI art that is slop or in the uncanny valley. By definition when something crosses the uncanny valley you don't notice.