Eigenrobot calls AI text requests offensive for lacking effort
Eigenrobot posted that requesting readers engage with AI-generated text is offensive because it skips the author's personal writing effort, which serves as a signal of message importance. Joscha Bach reposted the statement. Sven Schnieders quote-tweeted it with a screenshot of his March 2022 post stating that the writer struggles so the reader does not have to. The exchange portrays AI tools as reversing that traditional burden by removing the author's cost.
#1708eigenrobot@EIGENROBOTasking people to read ai-generated text is offensive.
this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important.
so: not paying that cost is telling
#1708eigenrobot@EIGENROBOTyup
and worse, since the writing is nearly costless to generate, much more of it gets produced and distributed!