Books Are Dead? What Does That Even Mean??

[@BeingLillo]

I read a poem by Dlshad Mariwani in my native language. Which he says “my fingers are thirsty, don’t reject them. Allow me to run them through your fine hair and let them stay, so they can drink enough of its perfume.” An AI could never come up with such delicate and beautiful words that lights up many feelings.

[@inerdius]

Right! The only way an AI can come up with anything like that is when it takes it from someone else.

[@BeingLillo]

I’m so grateful to you, and I feel so happy to be able to watch your videos. I indeed believe that AI writings is cold and has no relatability. Happy new year, may this year be filled with all good things that the world has to offer.

[@inerdius]

Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad to see my videos are being appreciated.

[@CptSamelsSigils]

You nailed it bro! As a developing writer myself, I want to look back on a body of meaningful work that I can leave behind, something that communicates what it was like for me on my brief sojourn of being alive. Of course that other youtuber wants to ignore all that and just say books are dead, because he’s selling AI junk and is in it just for the money. Books won’t be dead unless we’re dead inside, and we aren’t. Also, please excuse the self-promotion, but yesterday I posted an intro video and an audiobook with text for a story I wrote. It’s a fantasy story about my experiences after the second Iraq war. It’s called Begone, Demon and Come Forth! It is 100% FREE of AI, just home grown story telling, made right here in the real world by me! I’d love to hear what you think, and hopefully you would enjoy it. If not, no worries! I know you’re a busy dude Thanks for your thoughtful content, as always

[@inerdius]

No worries about the self-promotion. Is there a link to the story?

[@NightmareRex6]

thing is the proper way to say it is "slow" dead would mean ZERO peaople out all 9 billion use books, few use, so its "slow" not "dead" which is what us admins are told to say when a server is on low player count.

[@inerdius]

Right, and that's very interesting about admins.

[@joelstainer65]

I have not watched his video so cannot comment on his view, but AI may not be able to perfectly replicate human experiences and output now, but in the future, perhaps? If all of human experience is uploaded in real time via implants to AI that can use those experiences to create new composite outputs of their own that is unique, maybe it would output something that is identical to what a human can do. I really don't know. If that happens though, should I be worried? If AI ends up truly able to create something beautiful, unique, wonderful, and high quality, then I get to benefit from that. Of course, this ignores the ethics of AI stealing the experiences and the works of humans to make its outputs - and that's a whole other BIG issue, but I can forsee at least the potential (if it's even technically possible, which is may not be) for an AI that creates works that are identical in quality to humans. Whether we ever get there, and whether we should be willing to sell out those who have already created to get there, are other conversations.

[@inerdius]

Being a sci-fi writer means that I would never completely rule out the possibility for AI to develop consciousness and sentience, which are what I think are required for AI or any other entity to be able to produce truly original, imaginative, meaningful works of literature. What is worrying to me is that what AI proponents think of as "disruption" is really just flooding the market with easily produced crap, making it more difficult for readers to find something good.

[@AuthorPete-jp5uw]

Thanks for making these videos. True writers of fiction write about the human condition. We are all incomplete individuals making our way though each unpredictable, messy day. We have our victories and abject failures. We get angry and we experience joy. There are some newer authors out there treating AI as the new ‘Uber’ of the book workd. Faster, cheaper, disruptive etc. It’s all about volume and profit. But that’s not writing. Writers are generally just one poor-selling series away from having to purchase their groceries on credit card. There’s no mass market, high volume Uber solution to any of this. Also - no one wants to see AI play a human in chess. We get it. You can’t beat AI at chess. It’s humanly impossible. AI is far superior to our imperfect human minds. But - no one cares about how perfect AI is. Humans want to read about the fallible human experience, written by fallible humans.

[@AuthorPete-jp5uw]

This is the most emotional five minutes of chess I’ve ever seen. A champ of five decades is brought to tears playing a younger opponent. AI can never understand what this means. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZbZmmWOYrWMZsU

[@inerdius]

My sentiments exactly. Readers will suffer, as well, when their choices are muddied by the proliferation of crap cranked out by jerks using AI.

[@inerdius]

@@AuthorPete-jp5uw Humans are interested in, and interesting to, other humans. We love seeing the depths of emotion explored in each other, even when it is painful or sorrowful. Yes, in sci-fi we can replace humans with aliens, fantasy creatures, robots, etc. But ultimately, they are all vehicles for expressing what it means to be human. Speaking of chess, I get a kick out of watching "ChessTube" videos by the Botez sisters and others. Look up "Botez Gambit," it's hilarious.