Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #24067, comment 37


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2025-02-07T10:21:47+01:00 (6 months ago)
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  • Ticket #24067, comment 37

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    1212Regarding intentionality, that's a term describing a work of art (and code is art too). Having an intent is different from having a task. In art, intent goes into every little detail, not just the general direction. AI does not do that, it does not have an intent, only a task and a lot of accumulated statistics. Ted Chiang has explained that pretty well in this New Yorker article, which I think is the required reading: https://archive.ph/uTnxC
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    14 So when you use AI slop on the homepage, people immediately see that you used AI and fed it a couple words. My first thought was, why not just print those words? They would be certainly worth more than a thousand AI pictures. And in addition they would save wood and clean water used for producing the picture. The second thought would be, if the author does not see the difference between people art and AI art, would they see a difference between written code and AI-generated code?
     14So when you use AI slop on the homepage, people immediately see that you used AI and fed it a couple words. My first thought was, why not just print those words? They would be certainly worth more than a thousand AI pictures. And in addition they would save wood and clean water used for producing the picture.