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Yeah, it's fascinating to play with, but the problem, as cliche as it is, is that it still can't come up with anything NEW. This is something people miss, because it CAN recombine a bunch of things it knows in superficially "new" ways, and yes, part of human creation is drawing on things we've read/seen before. But humans have something AI doesn't: the experience of being alive. The experience of being a person moving through space and time, acting and being acted on, rather that a static database on a server. And whenever we make something it ends up being filtered through that experience, consciously and unconsciously. That's how we make truly NEW things. Talking to an LLM is like talking to Wikipedia, or every SEO "help" article ever written. It's fine as a reference material, but it's never going to look at what it has and put it together in a novel way. It's never going to INVENT. And the problem is that idiots don't understand this, they think the revolution is now, they get caught up in the glitter and go to AI for "generating ideas", which is the worst idea imaginable. Because the result is that you're going to get the most average, predictable, middle-of-the-road narrative, scenarios, characters etc imaginable. It's also kind of dark in another way, because the whole point of art and fiction is for one HUMAN unconscious, which can't communicate via normal speech and writing, to have a way to escape the brain cage and talk to other unconsciousness in other brains. Putting AI in the drivers seat, instead of simply as an assistant, defeats the whole purpose; it's like food with no calories, no taste, and no texture: what's the point?