Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Imagine using AI to write a description of what you're looking at. It has to know what you're looking at, so you type up a description of what you're seeing all so an AI can describe what you're seeing.
I took a college course on journalism and 90℅ of it is just observing something, and then writing a description of it. If you can't even do that, what the fucking hell do you even want to be a journalist for?
I'd just like to say congrats on making it into NYT - it took 'em long enough to recognise you were worth listening to.
AI bros keep being literally unable to tell good writing from bad writing, so they tell you that obvious slop is just fine when it really isn’t. But editors can tell. Do not write like a slop machine.
Going on a tangent, I can see English/Creative Writing degrees getting a major boost in job market value thanks to that being exposed - on top of showing you don't need spicy autocomplete to write for you (which I predicted two weeks ago), getting such a degree also shows a basic ability to tell good writing from bad writing.
Before the bubble, employers could easily assume anyone they hire would be capable of telling good writing from bad writing by default. Now, they the possibility of a would-be hire being incapable of even that basic feat is something they have to contend with.