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Perhaps music that at least the author would listen to? To this day I haven't heard an AI song that made me wish I press the rewind/play to listen it again. Granted, most human-generated songs are crap, too, but at least they are not crap to their authors.

But aren't many crap songs popular too?

Doesn't seem like a good way to measure a "good song".


IMHO, it would be solved by just making AI "art" un-copyrightable. Fine, make "AI art" as much as you wish. Sell and buy it as much as you please if you find it to your taste. BUT, you can NOT participate in organizations that take royalties from radio stations, TVs, movies, records, etc. for publishing, performance, etc.

As an avid reader of BDs, I would agree with you, but for the purpose of this discussion, and for the general public, these two are indistinguishable. Even to the actual translation, which is (pardon my rusty French) somewhere in the ballpark of "cartoon strips".


OTOH, 1% of a large group is still quite a lot. How many programmers are there in the world? Google says estimated 47 million. 1% of that is almost half a million people. If there are half a million Clojure programmers, Clojure is quite a successful technology! (Sadly, I doubt there are that many)...


Emacs was there way before GTK and Qt appeared, though.


> Emacs was there way before GTK and Qt appeared, though.

So your point is that we should use older technology even when it's been surpassed by better alternatives?


I was pointing out that when we talk about reinventing the wheel, it wasn't the Emacs who was doing that, but the other guys. Whether they reinvented better or worse wheels is up to debate.


Yes if the better alternatives are worse.


Software business is a business because it has customers, not users. In this case, you're left with the users, while OpenAI takes them as customers.


Everywhere I look around myself I see the same thing: people move very little (compared to our ancestors) and they eat often, and they eat a LOT (compared to our ancestors, of course). Sure, eating processed crap influences this in a negative way, but I think parent poster is on the point: eating in moderation and exercising more is the way...


If these kids could read, they would be very upset.


Yeah, right. Capping a resource, such a wild idea. Of course they won't implement it for the same reason bar owners don't put a cap on drinks.


Aren't bars actually required to cap drinks? It's usually phrased as having to refuse serving if you're visibly drunk, but still effectively a cap. That said, a big cloud bill doesn't make you intoxicated. The more I examine this analogy, the less it makes sense.


I don't know if the analogy works that well, the assumption is that you're making more money then you put in the more traffic you get. As a bar owner is the choice between closing your bar for the month when you run out of beer or running to the supplier to bring more kegs.


There are many more scenarios, though. One of them is that AI slop is impressive looking to outsiders, but can't produce anything great on itself, and, after the first wave of increased use based on faith, it just gets tossed in the pile of tools somewhere above UML and Web Services. Something that many people use because "it's the standard" but generally despise because it's crap.


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