AI Writing Floods Social Media as Users Favor Punchy Optimized Style

highly related re: the death of the humanities (archive link in next tweet)

personal cultivation and aesthetics are just not mass cultural pursuits

@AngularOcean its only going to accelerate

no one is going to stop you from reading shakespeare, i hope. but i doubt institutional support for the propagation of the humanities will continue

and to a great extent the fields have themselves to blame

oh well. enjoy some slop i cooked up for you https://archive.ph/NchUy

@eigenrobot been talking to a british fella, and was shocked to find that half of what was considered compulsory brit lit in my classes in high school and college are things they never read. he said they never read anything by a woman at all.

@eigenrobot As I've said before, this is going to end up wrecking the careers of most writers out there, but it won't hurt the top fifteen percent too much. It does mean that we have to take care of our audiences, because they will be what sustains our work.

@eigenrobot Good things last longer. This too shall be their own end.

@eigenrobot “bad yet effective writing […] is likely to drive out the good” I’m sorry but this happened a long time ago

@eigenrobot The death of the author is greatly exagerrated. Writing is not like coding, chess or archery. Unlike what academics have said for half a century, the text contains something of its origins. This is trivially true. And the text can’t be cleanly dissolved in functionality.

@eigenrobot I mean the fact that good writing is forced on a large part of the population seems like an outlier and most people hate it.

@eigenrobot I still have an instinctive aversion when I notice AI slop

@eigenrobot Isn’t everything

@eigenrobot "He who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience"

@eigenrobot Yes. Writing is a niche activity. Especially when it comes to literature (as opposed to bureaucratic records).

@eigenrobot gaming has degenerated into gachamaxxing dark patterns and mobile-first design principles because of gresham's law as well

@eigenrobot it almost seems as if they're making the disfranchised protestant working class dumb on purpose, there, but maybe that's everywhere?

@eigenrobot Good music and good movies are already a niche interest 🤷‍♂️

@eigenrobot Me at every used book sale.

@eigenrobot Effing Gresham's Law, but for writing.

@eigenrobot But yes, super important to point this out

@Ogiel23 @eigenrobot It this is healthy, it could mean increased unique regionalism and human connection on the back end.

If it goes poorly, it will reduce authorship to social media beefs and drama streams, while works pile unread, even among the "fans".