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Can you think any situation where it is ethical to use AI in the creative process? (sh.itjust.works)
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Let me assure you that the idea of AI disgusts me. Not just because it debates the quality of work and is a "cheat" to get past the word target, but because it stripey the writer themselves of their accomplishments.

However, it does strike me that people might want to write about subjects that they don't know a lot about. Scientific knowledge, crime, historical stuff. Could that be an ethical place to use AI - not to write it, but to ask "what would confectionary in the 1300s look like?" (For instance). Just niche questions.

Or is there a much better, easier way to look up niche real-world details like that?

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[–] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

If we were to close our eyes and pretend that the conversation around AI hadn't happened the way it did, and the training had only involved things people generally agreed were fair game, one could imagine a world where we largely used them as "that person who can tell you what to search for" or clarifies your understanding.

It's not intelligent in the way anyone means, but it's theoretically capable of being a better interface for a search engine.

Edit: it's whole thing is language manipulation. I forgot that I've written technical documents and had it summarize or explain them back to me. Anything it gets wrong is something I can bet a lazy or rushed human would also get caught by, so I clarify that point. Not proofreading, since I'm not asking for feedback. Just "did the words convey the information well enough for a statistical model to properly contextualize".

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    it’s whole thing is language manipulation

    That's a good point - it's worse than searching something in a browser, so just search in a browser

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Yup. Where it gets fuzzy is with this type of AI being integrated into a search engine.

    I honestly feel like if Google had waited, made their solution a good interface for searching as opposed to something which tells you answers and then finds references as best it can that it would have been a lot better. "We trained our model on the same data that our search engine looks at" is a lot more palatable than where things are now.

    The tedious part of research for me is figuring out the keywords I need to get to meaningful information.
    Something that can say "what you described is called 'ball and socket modular hose', here are some good starting points:" would actually be useful. (I just went through that rigamarole trying to find those rigid little flexible water or air nozzles that can snap together, so it's fresh in my mind)

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