My ‘favorite’ is the argument that replacing jobs is what technology is meant to do.

This isn’t just a job. If I won the lotto tomorrow, if I had billions and billions of dollars and never had to make another cent in my life, I would still be writing. Art is not just a production, it is a form of communication, between artist and audience, even if you never see them.

Writing has always been something like tossing a message in a bottle into a sea of bottles and hoping someone reads it. Even if the arguments that AI can never replace human writing in terms of quality is true, we’re still drowned out by the noise of it.

It really revs up the ol’ doomer instinct in me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Even if the arguments that AI can never replace human writing in terms of quality is true, we’re still drowned out by the noise of it.

It's a good point but honestly the internet is mostly just noise and it's not a problem we're going to solve. It's something we have to learn to live with. If you take more than a passing interest in an art, you should be able to find an island in the ocean of noise with like-minded people.