I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job

Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by anileated on Monday September 18, 2023 @08:42AM (#37555361)

> It’s a Kafkaesque experience to try to prove that you have not stolen writing from a machine that stole your writing in the first place. ... My business isn’t dead, but it’s wounded

Something similar I thought[0] would be happening.

Not only commercial LLM operators abuse copyright, take away profit and turn every author into a ghost writer for their products—but they also make your (now former) audience not believe you have done original work that was expropriated from you, usually without your consent.

In case of Hugh Taylor this meant tarnished reputation. Over longer term, it means elimination of incentives to share information openly, as you stand nothing to gain in terms of respect if the next person automatically assumes that you have simply paid for some LLM.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34665676

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by Bluestein on Thursday September 21, 2023 @07:28AM (#37596069)

>> but they also make your (now former) audience not believe you have done original work

I've experienced this.- PS. One of the (most) worrisome aspects of AI might just be this: The general "depreciation" of writing, as with the "depreciation" of "truth" in this "post-truth" age, when absolutely everything can be assumed to have non-human origin.-

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