Cameron Sutter 🪔

I made a guide for Christian parents to help their kids survive and thrive despite an AI-filled world. If this interests you or would be useful to someone you know, check the thread for the full description and links 🧵

This is what I tell my screenwriting students: "The one thing you have which no else does is your unique life experience. Exploring that part of your Self is where you discover your writer's voice. AI is *other* peoples' voices. Using it diminishes your growth as a writer."

Not me! I’m fighting it

Wow. This is a great example of *one of the reasons* why AI is so dangerous, especially to kids

yes!

“The life of the mind is hard and worth it”

SoA created a new "Human Authored" Logo to distinguish books created by humans 💪 humanauthored.co.uk

Perfect Your Process, the annual writing habits and practices summit, is back! And the Plottr team is speaking at two sessions this weekend. It's one of the best summits all year run by Daniel David Wallace, who is just an awesome guy. It's a FREE writing summit with an optional upgrade to watch the replays. Join us! summit.yourwritingprocess.com/?ac=AUm0qeIB

Mystery Writing: Puzzle First

Inefficient ftw! Maybe human nature is inefficient on purpose 🤔

Did he really just tweet, "Thanks for letting me steal your work."?

@readswithravi 🙋‍♂️

Who still loves reading physical books?

Step 23 of you watching me plot out my next book Today I write out a story overview (using the Story Genius method) so that we can remember where we're at and tease out the rest of the plot Join me! youtu.be/fQ46A5iaYjU

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@MattWalshBlog I saw this video and 🤦‍♂️, but you explained it perfectly. The great writers and men of history were very introspective

This is, of course, retarded. The great men of history were deeply introspective. They wrote memoirs, journals, diaries, poetry. They were philosophers, theologians. They yearned. They were romantics. They were in fact much more introspective than the average person today. However it is true that none of the great men of history, or any men at all (or even women), were sitting around whining to therapists about their feelings. I think the difference (and maybe this is what he's trying to get at) is that historical man wanted to KNOW himself while modern man cares only about how he FEELS about himself. The former wanted to know himself and the world beyond regardless of how it made him feel. The latter wants to feel good about himself even at the expense of knowing himself and the world beyond. That's why he drugs himself into oblivion. But this is not introspection. It's anti-introspection.

You've got to be kidding me! He can't be serious that he doesn't do any introspection 🤯 No … that … that just can't be. How do you live life without analyzing anything about your life, and a dozen other things that introspection leads to???? I don't want someone like that controlling anything about our future! How does he improve himself? How does he think he can improve the world if he doesn't think deeply about the world, its problems, humanity, etc etc?? Do other people not do this either?

If I dare be optimistic for a moment, one of the reasons I think most consumers will ultimately reject AI films and media is the major, insurmountable hurdle that none of it is impressive or interesting from a human standpoint. When human creativity, ingenuity, and passion are on full display, it's fun, exciting, and engaging. Real people did that work, they made those choices, they made it real. It's something you can still respect even if you ultimately didn't enjoy the end result. With AI, it's impossible to know who or what to credit for anything you're seeing. How much of it is the person's actual work and/or intent versus the automated slot machine nature of AI, and grappling with its limitations. When something cool ends up on screen, did they design that? Or did it pop up as one of 400 random generations and they liked it the most? Is there any kind of ownership over curating that sort of thing, especially when we know these systems can plagiarize both with and without intent? Generative AI is just wrangling other people's work out of the noise, rather than creating something truly one's own. To me, that makes it largely a superficial and narcissistic exercise, it's like trying to get someone else to care about a crazy dream you had. Watch their eyes glaze over in real time. That's why the main metrics they use to impress you is how many, or few, generations something took, or how quickly they squeezed it out. When you see the 'process', if there's even one to show, it's often just how many automated things they could string together to get something usable. The whole selling point of AI is how easy the tech is and how it 'democratizes' everything. People constantly brag about how little effort or how little money something took while at the same time, others are trying to convince you how much work they actually put in. It's gotten to the the point where you get fake behind-the-scenes like with the Coca Cola ad that they then scrub from the internet after being outed. You're being lied to basically every step of the way, AI pushers are trying to convince you that you should be impressed, but by what exactly? When the machine does 90% or more of the actual work, who are we supposed to get behind? Who are we supposed to champion and become fans of? The AI company? The model? You? The technology itself is very impressive, it's hard to deny that, but you know what? The novelty has already worn off and now all people see is low effort garbage and being shoved in their face everywhere they turn. You can't do that to people without desensitizing them and eventually driving them away and turning them against it. Maybe you do actually have a good idea, but if you have a machine execute basically all of it for you, people simply aren't going to care no matter how much you tell them this is the future or to adapt or die. So yeah, I think there's a course correction incoming and it's because when you launder other people's work and creativity via an automated plagiarism machine, what are we ultimately supposed to connect with? AI isn't the future, humans are.

Godlike technology demands godlike responsibility. But even more importantly: it demands self-control. The brain craves easy. AI offers easy. If we don't push back, we don't push forward.

If you don’t give over your intelligence to them in the first place you will not have to buy it back. You do not need what they are selling. You need your own mind and body and friends and books and a place outside to walk and think.

“AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us - and charging a price.” Talking Heads founding member David Byrne speaks to @faisalislam about AI and its impact on creativity. #Newsnight

I've been saying this since day one, AI just means you'll be doing more work for the same, or less, pay. "The time spent on email, messaging and chat apps more than doubled, while their use of business-management tools, such as human-resources or accounting software, rose 94%."