{"id":38412,"date":"2023-02-26T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38412"},"modified":"2023-02-26T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T18:23:09","slug":"define-what-you-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/02\/26\/define-what-you-want-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Define What You Want To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a fascinating article on a new job category called prompt engineering<\/em>, having to do with interacting with and, I think, training of various artificial intelligence engines, I ran across this consequence:<\/p>\n

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But tapping the AI tools\u2019 power through text prompts can also lead to a flood of synthetic pablum. Hundreds of AI-generated e-books are\u00a0now sold<\/a>\u00a0on Amazon, and a sci-fi magazine, Clarkesworld, this month\u00a0stopped<\/a> accepting short-story submissions due to a surge in machine-made texts. [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This presents a real problem for publishers who’ve gone over fully to the Web for accepting submissions; some may revert to requiring all submissions to be on actual paper – and maybe an accompanying blood sample. I suspect story magazines will have to put themselves into one of three categories:<\/p>\n

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  1. Story markets<\/em>. These don’t care about authorship; for them, the story is the thing, and its originating entity doesn’t matter.<\/li>\n
  2. Human originated stories<\/em>. These markets demand the stories they publish have an immediate author of a human (or more than one). I word it in this way to shutdown the argument that knowledge based AIs are working off human stories, of course. The point here is that a human demonstrating storytelling skills is an important element of the market and, indeed, of the endeavour of being human.<\/li>\n
  3. AI originated stories<\/em>. These markets demand AI authorship.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Say “hi” to Torg, your new robot overlord. Your previous overlord, Yarg, has been consigned to the junkheap.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

    Each may have its devoted fans. I suspect, in terms of reader churn, AI originated stories<\/em> may be highest, as the AI can write stories tirelessly, good, bad, and indifferent, and wear out readers who can discern good from bad stories, followed closely by story markets<\/em>, which will get the overflow of the AI originated stories<\/em> markets, and then, trailing far behind, human originated stories<\/em>. Why last?<\/p>\n

    The best of the two authorship groups, head to head, will be humans<\/em>. Indeed, the AIs may turn out be vulnerable to sabotage, if I’m understanding the article properly. Secondarily, there will be a value placed on the skills displayed, as previously mentioned.<\/p>\n

    But there’s going to be a time period in which AI authored works will cause a ruckus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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