This is an unpopular opinion, but as someone who builds stuff from scratch, this is the same feeling i get when someone holds up a 3d printed item and goes “i made this”
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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If they've created the 3d file themselves that seems like an accurate thing to say, as opposed to just printing something off the internet. Obviously the amount of effort and perhaps artistic expression is gonna differ, but like, I think most printed stuff only exists to serve a specific function anyway
If you’re going to send me the output of some LLM, do me a favour and just send me the prompt instead. Otherwise I’m going to spend as much time reading it as you spent writing it.
LLMs are stochastic. If I send you the prompt instead of the output, then there's no guarantee that the output you get will be correct. If I generate the text myself, I can verify that it's correct before sending it off.
The problem is that as the recipient, you have no idea whether I've even read the output, let alone verified or understood it. And with the low barrier to entry, it's much more likely that you're getting unverified slop. Sharing the prompt isn't going to help with that.
Edit: sorry, posted before I finished writing.
Of course it will be correct: the prompt contains the idea you wanted to convey. I’ll read that and know what you meant. Feeding that prompt into an LLM doesn’t add any new ideas from you, it just inflates the text like a balloon and gussies it up with useless window dressing.
If anything, it obscures what you meant!
The only people who would use AI for creative work are those who are unwilling to take the time to become good at it or are incapable of doing so.
I use AI to help me write poetry in 2 ways:
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I have a thick accent and it helps me count syllables and determine what the meter will feel like most readers
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I feed it completed poems and ask it to analyze it for themes and metaphors to ensure that my meaning is being conveyed properly
Rhyming dictionaries and thesaurus.com for the rest
They're really after the money.
I'll grant that there will be people out there who also don't have the ability to notice that it's garbage being generated.
Where I do live, not only there is absolutely poor art education and appreciation, but there are people who don't care about the artwork -- mostly event and product advertisements on Facebook -- they'll handwave the damn thing as long as it delivers the intended message.
I've shouted from the rooftops before many times there is nothing creative from AI writing. It just repeats the same terse, sentence structures! AI had never fallen in love, grieved, or inspired before!
Some of these fanatics are utterly arrogant greedy narcissists with no redeeming qualities at all.
Explosion of creativity? Do you mean the laziest, untalented, uninteresting people on the planet finally being able to vomit their stupid ideas out into the world in the style of the greatest human artists of history?
The best way I have found to make sense of why some people are so enthousiastic to shill for AI, is to see AI as yet another product that preys upon people's insecurities. In this case it's maybe the worst insecurity of all: feeling like you're less intelligent than other people.
Taking that insecurity as the through-line, this kind of shilling makes perfect sense IMO. It's essentially a form of self soothing, saying "everyone is or will be using this, it's not just me!".
Pointless sidebar: Westworld (Season 1) uses a player piano as a metaphor for AI.
And player piano is what they should have said. Don't besmirch electric/Rhodes pianos, they're awesome.
I think "making" AI art is essentially the same as commissioning a painting - you're describing what you want to someone else and they're making it for you (although in this case 'someone' is a kind of highly-optimized plagiarism machine, but same kind of principle.) When it's done, you might "own" the result, but you didn't make it IMO.
But if you're commissioning it, at least an artist was able to pay for something using that money.
The new kind of writer's block
Well said. I swear I'm not being biased just because I loved playing his music on piano
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