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Re:The leading AI models are now good historians by visarga on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:33PM (#42837458)
> I know it's just mimicking being human as instructed; to take it seriously devalues everything about my own humanity.

Since it is mirroring human culture, why do you see it in such a negative light? Instead see it like what it is, an interactive reconstruction, or maybe like a microscope to zoom into any idea.

Re:The leading AI models are now good historians by kranner on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:07AM (#42837613)
I’m happy to use LLMs in all other contexts, quite enthusiastically actually. I’ve got DeepSeek 32B running locally on a beefy PC already.

It’s just in the context of poetry, and literary writing in general, that I feel differently about them. There’s also the fact that I haven’t read all that human writers and poets have already written (and will never be able to in this short life) that there’s no need to turn to synthetic output. No supply problem exists. Poetry in particular is something to ponder over and over. You can’t really run out.