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recently my friend’s comics professor told her that it’s acceptable to use gen Al for script- writing but not for art, since a machine can’t generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister’s screenwriting professor said that they can use gen Al for concept art and visualization, but that it won’t be able to generate a script that’s any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It’s only ever the jobs we’re unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen Al will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don’t.
I literally have to give my local LLM a bit of a custom prompt to get it to stop being so overly praising of me and the things that I say.
Its annoying, it reads as patronizing to me.
Sure, everyonce in a while I feel like I do come up with an actually neat or interesting idea… but if you went by the default of most LLMs, they basically act like they’re a teenager in a toxic, codependent relationship with you.
They are insanely sycophantic, reassure you that all your dumbest ideas and most mundane observations are like, groundbreaking intellectual achievements, all your ridiculous and nonsensical and inconsequential worries and troubles are the most serious and profound experiences that have ever happened in the history of the universe.
Oh, and they’re also absurdly suggestible about most things, unless you tell them not to be.
… they’re fluffers.
They appeal to anyone’s innate narcissism, and amplify it into ego mania.
Ironically, you could maybe say that they’re programming people to be NPCs, and the template they are programming to be, is ‘Main Character Syndrome’.