It's also a way of mechanizing even further large amounts of human labor and reducing the importance of art. I guess it depends on what you value: for you, apparently a world with AI is not so bad. For me, it's disgusting.
I honestly don't see it fundamentally different from most other code. I generated images and music (PLAY instruction) with GWBASIC back when I was a teenager. I generated text with Perl.
This is just the continuation of the same old, just a bit fancier.
I don't think it is. One could say that getting hit by a car is the continuation of getting hit by a person, but one is much more powerful than another. AI allows mass creation of much more complicated works at a speed much greater than before. the PLAY instruction might create some music, but it won't be the sort of music that can compete with human-made music. AI music is very close to it.
Speed is important, strength is important. There is no obvious qualitative difference, but qualitative differences emerge due to a massive increase in complexity, just like consciousness emerges in us but (probably) not in a bacteria due to the massive difference in complexity, even though we are just a scaling of the former.
Your text generation with Perl wouldn't be able to write an article, but ChatGPT can, and the magnitude difference is precisely what we cannot handle, just like I can't be hit by a speeding car at 100km/h and survive but I'd probably walk away from being hit at 2km/h (and once this actually happened to me, without injury). Would you say there's not much difference between the two?
