Do you consider AI-generated content to be less valuable?
We use AI to improve something in the process (mostly to speed up the process).
But whenever I see and suspect that something is generated by LLMs, I feel that the person on the other side has slopped it a bit (and subconsciously I perceive it as "something less").
I have to say that some outputs that look really high quality and I have trouble distinguishing them from "handwork" are perceived as completely normal (at least for me). As equal human work.
How do you view things generated by artificial intelligence?
Maybe it's true that who is behind the output and prompting also influences the result (professional vs. amateur).
But it clashes a bit with the fact that: if we do things with AI, why do we demand less money for the output? (We perceive it as cheap.)
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Honestly, I think it is less about AI vs Human and more about whether it feels generic. Good prompting and editing can produce something genuinely good, lazy prompting produces the "slop" feeling regardless of who's behind it. The pricing thing is interesting though, I think we undervalue the judgment and editing part, not the output itself.
@samran_elahi I completely couldn't agree more. A lot of people do undervalue the work of editing and iteration which is exactly what distinguishes great output from sloppy output.
@samran_elahi I need to say that as soon as the AI stepped in, people expected to pay less for the output.
@samran_elahi @busmark_w_nika 100% exactly. AI can do it all is the mindset now.
Same feeling!)
Recently I was trying to fix something on my Mac. Opened 4 articles. All of them talked for 800 words and said nothing. I closed every tab, kind of angry haha. None of them were badly written. They just didn't help at all. All generic water. Even the "how-to" video content is nowadays mostly AI-generated. Only Reddit, with real humans there, helped me.
That's the real thing for me. Not AI vs human, but whether anyone bothered to decide what to say, reread it properly to make sure it brings value, and add a touch of "humaneness".
@yelyzaveta_kibets The longer the sentences / paragraphs are, the more I think it is AI. And when I answer with 2 words it is more human than anything else :D
@busmark_w_nika Haha so true. My drafts always start long and then I delete half before posting. Short and a bit messy = human proof I guess 😄
@busmark_w_nika But if short and choppy becomes the human signal, AI will just copy that too. What do you think we'll go by then?)
@yelyzaveta_kibets But I think that my brain is so ADHD that I prefer short texts (and AI has problem with writing short texts) lol :D
Another interesting topic Nika, I think AI generated products are great as long as the user put's in enough efforts to make it professional. Unfortunately, many AI users want the AI to do almost everything automatically. AI as I said earlier is a tool, what a user produces from using the tool is up to the user's quality of work. I have seen both sides of the spectrum, very high quality AI work and very sloppy AI generated work. It all depends on the user/creator.
@richatsealedvault I agree with this. Some people make that effort to make it sound less like AI. :)
@pranay19 Some people make an effort and polish it to sound less like AI. Then I cherish the output more.
funny thing is polish is what tips me off now, not the AI part. rough edges read as a person actually steered it instead of shipping the first draft
@sabber_ahamed Do you do copy-paste, or rather try to polish the text on your own even when AI generated it? :D :)
Yes I consider it less valuable.
Especially code, because it was made with the mindset of taking on tech or cognitive debt traded for speed.
It's not disposable per se but it is not sacred.
Frankly I only let AI touch code/software in general. And making MARP templates, I'll hand edit the wording but having the boilerplate is nice, although I could probably find or make a template to use after that. and make the themes by hand too.
@build_with_aj On the other hand, I use AI for coding and explaining the code. Without it, I would be pretty lost and would not learn anything haha.
I don't consider it less valuable, because editor's work is still work and it actually requires more experience in traditional copywriting. I treat AI generated content as a draft, not as the final result. And of course I provide it with the idea, facts, describe what I expect as a result.
What I find absurd lately: some people intentionally make grammar mistakes, write without capital letters etc. in order to look less AI, but the content stays generic.
We can charge less because the cost is 20-100€ per month for AI, not a salary. A copywriter today uses the same tools anyway, so what you're actually paying for is the editing and judgement, not the raw generation.
@alieksia i think it is a horrible time; we need to prove somehow that we are human. Which means that we then look dumb, like we do not know grammar properly or so :D
Farrukh's framing of the discount as "unverified" rather than "AI" is the one I would keep. There is a case where it gets worse than proofreading can reach.
I ran ten financial modelling problems through four models with the calculator taken away, ground truth computed in code rather than by a model. All four answered everything. Every answer landed within 0.145% of the true value. Exact to the cent, one model got 10 of 10 and another got 3.
On a five-year cash forecast the weak one came out $8,451 short. Nothing in the answer signals it. You can read that output against the source all day and find nothing, because there is nothing to find by reading. The number simply looks right.
So for text, comparing against a source works. For anything the model computed, the only check is recomputing it. That is the work people forget to price.
github.com/dimhold/llm-arithmetic
@busmark_w_nika Do people confuse faster work with less effort?
@ethan_gabriel No faster work, I talk about people who (without thinking) only copy paste the output :)
@busmark_w_nika Does knowing a human edited it change how you value it?
@adrian_cole4 Yes, I appreciate an effort... when someone is open to spend time over the results :)