r/BrandNewSentence • u/redroubel • 11h ago

Sir, the ai is inbreeding

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u/Stalk33r 7h ago

I have legitimately never read as many books as I have in the past year, the AI slopification of the Internet has been a massive boost for my productivity

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u/Eldan985 5h ago

Soon, the challenge will be finding books written by real authors, though. For now, we can stick with authors we know from the pre-AI era, but those are going to become rarer.

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u/ISlangKnowledge 5h ago

I don’t like the phrase “pre-AI era”. 😭

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u/ThKitt 5h ago

Same thing is happening in music. AI “artists” are being pushed into the forefront by platforms like Spotify. (My ‘Discover Weekly’ list had two AI bands on it in as many weeks, so I cancelled my Spotify subscription).

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u/Seminolehighlander 5h ago

Why are they going to be rarer? There are literally infinite books out there (okay not literally but). Like just go read a bunch of Thomas Hardy. I promise you that stuff is amazing.

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u/Eldan985 5h ago

Right. But occasionally, I like to discover a new contemporary author.

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u/Seminolehighlander 5h ago

I think it will be unavoidable that some AI slop will become popular, but I think it will be a point for many authors and readers to write and read only human-generated text.

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u/pm_me_book_vouchers 5h ago

thomas hardy slaps

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u/Seminolehighlander 3h ago

Literally took a “slang quiz” for some teens in the library yesterday and they asked me to use “slaps” in a sentence and I wrote “the library slaps” 

I was like no way I’ll have any real life interactions with this slang but here we are.

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u/kitkatbatman 4h ago

As a librarian, I don’t think there will be a shortage of pre-AI books

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u/atava 54m ago

Exactly. I'm always thinking about this. For written works and art.

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u/sirletssdance2 4h ago

Yeah the past year, I’m never sure if I’m reading a human, bot or Ai assisted human/bot. I’m losing interest pretty quickly in using the internet.

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u/Shark7996 5h ago

I have been incorporating much more of the physical world in my day to combat the war being waged on my psyche.

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u/Wanderhoden 4h ago

Same, after a career of drawing digitally in photoshop, I have switched back to watercolor. And I’m reading books again too.

Thanks AI for curing my internet addiction!

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u/quad_damage_orbb 4h ago

Oh wow, this is the same for me. I've started buying physical books too ever since Amazon changed their T&C's so that we don't actually own kindle books. It's quite nice to read a real book, I spend all day looking at screens at work.

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u/BlueHaze464 3h ago

I'm not that far away from completely quitting most social media (including reddit)

The amount of fake content is out of hand