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While it feels great to have you pick apart a piece generated - as opposed to written - by AI, what concerns me is the push to make the writing something we would want to read. I can believe coders will get there eventually. But even if a piece put out by AI could move me, it would be disconnecting me from feeling for another human. That is the threat to art.

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I just love this article! It made me laugh, which is something AI-generated literature doesn't do.

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I think the facts, as we now know them, are well-stated in this post. AI can imitate as well as it is programmed to imitate. It can create text which reads like that created by humans, but, its' creations, as far as I know, are lacking in that sense of feeling. Ms. Gray makes a good point and her comment about a threat to art is spot on, in my opinion.

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To quote Bertrand Russell, “No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his father was poor but honest.”

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Please forgive the omission: ...PLACE the modifier...

Best regards to all!

PDV.

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Well. It is pretty obvious now that certain folks want to give us (and themselves) the government that money can buy. Notice, I did not the modifier, *best*, between "the" and, "government". I THINK it is also obvious that that government is falling short. Thanks for your support and kind sentiments.

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"isn’t humming the opposite of “regimented”?" -- No, it is one of the most regimented forms of background noise imaginable. It is close to white noise, which in its statistical randomness is absolutely flat, strictly limited by its lack of any other structure. There's a reason why people use such background to go to sleep.

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