> It turned out that writers actually like to write themselves
After reading this line, I literally went thank goodness it flopped.
I don't want to read autogenerated content no matter how good it may be.
Yes, AI can be useful in a lot of domains, but autogenerated content to read? No thank you. I like to experience what the writers themselves come up with.
And what if the writers change their style?
> AI-generated text is going to make the next generation of the internet so much worse.
This kind of thing combined with global warming would make for an interesting future.
> This kind of thing combined with global warming would make for an interesting future
AI can put out hundreds of thousands of articles telling you why global warming is a good thing. After all, nothing has meaning to an AI: not its own survival, and certainly not yours.
Exactly. It's like inventing a knitting machine and reaching out to hand-knitters. You're offering to destroy through automation the thing they enjoy. The right market to reach out to would have been consumers of writing.
To the extent that this already exists, it's used to create blogspam for SEO purposes. AI-generated text is going to make the next generation of the internet so much worse.