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bananonbinary: bananonbinary: i keep seeing people compare AI to the machine-generated books in 1984, and i don’t think it’s entirely fair for 2 main reasons: in 1984, media is controlled by the state. the books are not just written by machines, they are specifically engineered with an agenda to control the masses. current AI books may be slop, but they are not malevolent slop. at least, not any moreso than any other corporate garbage. we should be paying attention to what propaganda may be in these books, but then, that’s true of normal books too. in 1984, EVERY book is written this way, which is what makes it an effective form of control. i truly don’t think we’re in danger of that here. AI books ARE slop, and are never going to replace real writers as long as we have freedom of expression. they are getting churned out now because they are a novelty, and cheap to produce; they aren’t really seriously competing with actual intentional books. or preventing writers from making new art, because writers LIKE making new art. the problems in 1984 were never the specific tools, it’s the system of oppression and how it uses those tools. AI books may superficially be similar to what’s described here, but they just aren’t part of a wider system that can have that sort of impact. they’re just kinda. there. being bad books. we can survive bad books. it reminds me of people getting up in arms about throwing out or burning books; the problem is the censorship that those acts symbolize, not the literal acts themselves. i mean fuck yall, people are here on the internet writing and publishing entire multi-novel epics for free, they are never going to stop doing that unless it is literally illegal. and actually not even then either, look at early fan communities. the market being flooded with slop is perhaps tacky, or even insulting, but not a serious threat to the integrity of art. artists gonna art.

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