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gulliver

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5. (Some) humans are still better, luckily

Reply to GenThePerservering (Reply #4)

Sat May 16, 2026, 02:39 PM

Yesterday

Ask an AI to compose a poem in the style of Edgar Allan Poe on any subject you can think of. It's going to be a treat. And I'm struggling to see exactly why I should feel guilty about that. I do, but I'm not sure why!

But if you chat with AI and have any familiarity with some region of the humanities, you'll definitely see gaps and blind spots. Even if those are limited and are eventually overcome, people will still want the output of other people, imo. We like things that are handcrafted, and we like beating each other at chess even though a computer can now beat all of us easily.

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