J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF: on Nostr: I've been writing short stories for more than 40 years. My manager is a drummer and ...

I've been writing short stories for more than 40 years. My manager is a drummer and has been a musician on the side for many years. We are the only two people I know at work who are visibly anti-genAI even as I'm working with products and tools that incorporate it.

Creators are the ones who understand what it truly takes to be *good* at something.

I'm not a great writer, but I have my own voice and style that I have built word by word, thought by thought. A genAI reduces four decades of reading, learning, experimenting, dreaming, trying and failing to a statistical model. It reduces my life to an equation to be solved. It reduces all of our lives, our talents to the lowest common denominator, to a product not a process.

If anyone can generate art that is "good enough" what use is there for real artists? That's the goal. Eliminate creativity in the population so we can be better controlled. If we can no longer imagine it, it's no longer possible.

The environmental and personal cost for genAI will never be worth what comes out the other side. I've been painstakingly teaching myself jq and JSONPath for months. I have access to a private ChatGPT instance at work and it can spit out passable statements for both. They aren't necessarily correct but they could get me started *if I let them*. I cannot in good conscience use it. I just can't. I'd rather go read the original Stackoverflow posts it's badly summarizing.

I like it here on the Fediverse in my little corner where I don't have to hear shills and automatons telling me how useless my ability to think for myself truly is.