[HN Gopher] Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes subm...
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       Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to
       AI writers
        
       Author : evo_9
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2023-02-21 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | pizzaknife wrote:
       | ahhh wait so if AI is authoring scifi, thats autobiography?
        
       | ChuckMcM wrote:
       | Also discussed here:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34885253
        
       | eikenberry wrote:
       | I was wondering which way this would go when I saw the title.
       | Seemed equally possible it was due to people turning in AI
       | generated articles as it was that the publisher decided it didn't
       | need submissions anymore as it would use an AI to generate the
       | articles. My guess is that we'll see more of both.
        
       | n0us wrote:
       | Checkout "INFINITE ODYSSEY MAGAZINE" which is only AI-generated
       | art. I'll use the term "art" here because there must be some
       | human skill involved. Personally I'm not able to get results as
       | good as theirs when I use these tools. There are some really cool
       | image series they've put out.
       | 
       | https://www.infiniteodyssey.net/
        
         | bawolff wrote:
         | I feel like we're in the early days of photography. How can
         | there be skill when the camera mechanically captures the scene
         | perfectly?
        
           | rcme wrote:
           | Not to discount the photographer's eye, but painting a scene
           | does take a lot more skill than taking a photograph. And
           | photography is largely dying thanks to the smartphone. I like
           | your point that we're entering a new age we don't quite
           | understand yet, but some things will probably be lost as
           | well.
        
         | krapp wrote:
         | > I'll use the term "art" here because there must be some human
         | skill involved.
         | 
         | I mean, there's human skill in creating the prompts but AI
         | alone is capable of this level of quality. You can follow any
         | AI art tag on Instagram and see for yourself.
        
           | mistrial9 wrote:
           | no human can play drums like this drum machine! </s>
        
           | eikenberry wrote:
           | The skill is in designing, building and training up the AI.
           | The prompter is providing such a tiny amount of input that it
           | is hard to say they did much anything at all in comparison.
        
             | jointpdf wrote:
             | The skill is in creating the training data in the first
             | place.
             | 
             | Training a model is hardly a skill. It's more like playing
             | Tamagotchi--check on it once in a while to make sure it
             | hasn't died, and guess at ways to make it happier in the
             | future.
        
               | p1esk wrote:
               | I agree with your first statement, and disagree with the
               | second one. Training a model is 1/3 craft, 1/3 science,
               | and 1/3 art. There are not very many people in the world
               | capable of training GPT-4 level models or beating state
               | of the art in image generation.
        
       | fwungy wrote:
       | Tang is fake, but it still tastes good.
        
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