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Like, every AI generated thing I’ve seen, when viewed from the eyes of someone who actually knows what they’re doing, is at best below average. Maybe some things aren’t quite as bad as the general “AI slop”, but of the things I’m actually experienced in (code and art), I just see so many amateur mistakes in everything AI.

Regarding art, AI can make really visually appealing things, but it gets the details wrong. That’s something that a below average artist does. And regarding code, it’s the same thing. Overall, it has the appearance of decent code, but it gets the details wrong, just like a below average dev. (Probably about the level of a high school senior or college freshman.)

I’m not super experienced at writing, but I can also tell that it’s not very good at that. The stories it writes just aren’t compelling, but I’m not experienced enough to tell you why. And the same with music. It’s just below average, but I couldn’t tell you why.

I’m not trying to sound elitist by saying this, but I’ve noticed people who aren’t very good at these things tend to praise how good the AI is.

So, is it just me, or are the big fans of AI just below average at whatever the AI is doing?

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In my writing group, there's one guy who's very enthusiastic about AI; everybody else hates it.

The one who loves AI is a Libertarian who admits he's never read any book except Conan the Barbarian, which he thinks is the pinnacle of literature and whose writing is kind of bad and extremely political. (He wrote a short story about being fined for not using someone's correct pronouns because that was, and I quote, "The scariest thing I could imagine.")

I don't think it's at all a coincidence that the one guy who's enthusiastic about having Grok (of course he uses Grok) 'edit' all his writing is, pretty obviously, the worst writer in the group.

[–] Qwel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Do you still have that story? How much was the fine and I NEED to know what the ending was like

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Nah, it was only presented during the group meeting. Never got a copy.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

the worst writer in the group.

Sound to me like he's the worst person in the group.