Comment by tene80i
Eh? I never said I could detect the machine. Only that I would prefer it wasn’t used. I would also prefer not to read a ghostwritten book, even if I would never know it was ghostwritten. The possibility of never knowing something doesn’t mean there’s nothing there to know.
As for the other types of machine help eg photoshop. Yes, it’s an interesting question where to draw the line. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t one. There are lots of areas of human life where the boundary isn’t neat. That doesn’t mean there is no boundary.
Yeah well, I don't disagree with you overall, but this is what getting old feels like. The boundary is so messy because it's based on feelings and desires and reduced neuroplasticity rather than a logical principle. There's not even a coherent explanation of how this personal preference could possibly be realized at the level of policy given the state of play. I'm sensitive to this feeling, but it's a luxury belief of people who can afford to ignore the job market.
The collective disapproval of online booking sites by travel agents was far more concentrated and economically existential than AI is to artists, and it made no difference. Travel agents who tried to moralize about soulless technology and inferior experiences while costing 10,000% more money for services that their customers felt were similar enough were not saved by moral disapproval cross-pollinated with self-interested hostility to change.
All the technology that existed when we were young was either a normal part of life or something exciting and new. And then past a certain point, technology becomes suspicious, or unnecessary, or economically threatening, and eventually it gets elevated to a source of danger to the human experience itself. And right or wrong, the next generation has never cared.