The reason content creators worry about ChatGPT

The article was so long and rambling I asked ChatGPT to summarize it for me:<p>The increased use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT has brought to a head the problem that creators have been facing for some time. They worry that these tools are greater masters of their craft than they are. According to a recent article, the explanation is simple: creators have overemphasized one part of the craft, posture. This refers to how creators see themselves and the world, which creates a unique creative “fingerprint”. Creators are not focusing enough on the other two parts, the process, which is how the work is directed, and practice, which involves honing creative skills. Instead, they are relying on techniques, workflows, and tools to direct them. By learning and focusing on the process and practice, creators can improve their skills and not worry about being replaced by AI tools.

&gt; The problem isn&#x27;t that bots will replace humans. The problem is that humans are acting like bots.<p>Yikes that really hits home. Since the dawn of computers, people have been handing over more and more of their thinking to processes and machines, becoming more robotic. Or like how the factory line changes the way people think, reduces their creativity. Maybe now that the robots are getting scarily good, I can hope that humans will go back to acting like humans again.

I think one of my biggest fears is when I see people excitedly exclaiming, &quot;these kinds of tools allow people to create things that they never would&#x27;ve been capable of building&quot;.<p>And then you see people on Reddit talking about how they created a picture book using stable diffusion for the pictures, and chat GPT for the story with the Reddit post titled &quot;I <i>wrote</i> a book&quot;. It&#x27;s almost as if people fundamentally misunderstand the concept of craftsmanship altogether.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;QKZNOnLUBmQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;QKZNOnLUBmQ</a>

I really do think this article is missing the point entirely. Well, I think it&#x27;s partially right in that there is an over-reliance on process and humans acting more like bots. However, in regards to content creation, there are far more serious problems:<p>(a) ChatGPT is not just ChatGPT, it&#x27;s an initial stage on a massive operation that will generate content on all levels and in much more advanced ways<p>(b) Content creation by AI does not have to be as good as human content creation. It does not have to be as good as human content creation to become more successful; instead it only has to vastly outpace it in volume.<p>(c) AI content will succeed not because it is better. Right now it&#x27;s worse. But even if it stays worse and content creators change their modus operandi as in the article, AI will still be much better at optimizing revenue from content because ultimately, the reason why content creators get paid is because people buy shit they don&#x27;t need, and AI will amplify this much more easily than humans<p>Ultimately, it is utterly useless to examine ChatGPT vs. content creators inside a bubble. One needs to understand ChatGPT as part of a larger iterative process, in which there is a mutual evolution of algorithms to deliver content and algorithms to make content. Humans currently are at the forefront of making content, but they will not be for long.<p>And before long, there will be more and more positions taken over by AI algorithms. Writing may have been one of the first because writing is so old and we understand it so well. But at some point, we will understand medicine so well that doctors will be replaced too. Finally, we will understand every task so well so that what we have done as humans to advance a body of knowledge will merely be used to bootstrap and even &quot;better&quot; system where AI does everything.<p>In once sense, it sounds like a utopia -- us not having to do anything. But I think it will be very far from that. It will be more like a dystopia where nobody knows the value of another person because they do not have to rely on each other any more. We are already part-way there.<p>I admonish anyone who contributes a line of code to OpenAI, ChatGPT, Bard, and other systems. Shame on you.

People seem to have short memories. We&#x27;ve been here before.<p>Not with AI but with low-cost content farms eg Demand Media, Associated Content, Mahalo. Most of these died. A few survive (eg Wikihow). People recognize it for what it is: noise. Ultimately, search enginees do as well and this SEO-optimized drivel gets downranked into non-existence.<p>ChatGPT can write as many articles as you like but they have to have a point, over overarching narrative. A lot of people at content farms will get replaced by AI but that&#x27;s just automation. AI tools like this will magnify the abilities of a person to be able to produce more content just like any other form of automation.<p>As for content creators, 95%+ of these already earn little to nothing from their activities. They&#x27;re hoping to get their big break. AI won&#x27;t really change that making a living as a content creator has always been a low-probability endeavour.

I think having a worldview is much more entertaining than having the entirety of the world’s view.

you have to follow a template to pump out enough content to satisfy the machine: the youtube algorithm which upranks creators who post daily.<p>it&#x27;s just closing the loop.<p>i only hope the machine ouroboros generates enough heat to keep me warm and grow some plants to eat while it spins.

I&#x27;m not worried about AI replacing content creators. If anything, it will make the low effort bot generated content all platforms have been filled with for years now at least somewhat more interesting.<p>What I&#x27;ll be annoyed by is the amount of it that will exist, which will make finding high quality content made by humans much more difficult. Audio and video content will become spam infested as text has been on the web for decades now. We&#x27;ll be flooded by SEO&#x27;d to hell garbage, propaganda and deep fakes, and curation will be crucial to find the signal within the noise. I guess we&#x27;ll come up with new AIs and new platforms to help us with that as well.<p>I can hardly wait. &#x2F;s

If you can&#x27;t beat them, join them. The content creators who learn how to use AI tools to help them create their own unique content will likely get more work than those who don&#x27;t learn the new AI tools.

Considering “content creator” wasn’t event a “real job” until about 5-6 years ago outside of a serious niche, I still genuinely don’t care.

Nobody speaks about the WHY you need something like ChatGPT or Midjourney? To be more &quot;creative&quot;? Or to give tools to fake creativity for the masses? And just another reason not to put the hard work, which is the process that leads to human discovery and real creativity.<p>Hard no for me. Actually, this &quot;automation&quot; frenzy is motivated me clearly to learn more in a classical way. Without an &quot;assistance&quot;.<p>Yes, I prefer to become less effective and more proficient.

This guy seems like a “content creator” but the article is trying to speak to artists. Calling it “content” has already devalued the art to some marketing fodder. So I don’t think this is going to make many artists feel better.<p>I think that most artists would agree that these tools can be used to create art. But that’s not what is concerning- it’s that the tools will ultimately be used by people who don’t value art to further devalue it.