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Heh -- no, I'm speaking only of text writing here, not the generation of visual art. The image-generating AI has a slate of different problems, but they're not quite analogous to the problem of bullshit in prose-generation ...

I actually think AI text-generation is potentially amazing for the writing of fiction or poetry -- i.e. realms where being straightforwardly factual doesn't matter! The problem with factuality comes when we're trying to write nonfiction text ...

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

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