I’m probably on an island myself here, but I have no interest in any story written to accompany replay results, though if pressed I would like to see it written by someone who actually played the games , not AI . But I rarely read it.
I am more interested in the raw numbers, standings, tournament winners and such. Most likely from too much consumption of the 1973 Baseball Encyclopedia as a youth , hours of just randomly reading through the pages
I concur. AI writing is, mostly, unreadably bad. The very base level of competent but with such a repetitive style ("Here's the thing...", "It's not X; it's Y...", threefold repetition, etc) and formulaic structure that it's impossible to read anything written by it for very long unless you're already someone who spends a ton of time using chat bots.
For the most part I agree. The only way I might disagree is if someone is upfront about using AI and they use it to enhance their content rather than create it.
I like to watch history related video (sports and non-sports). The YouTube channel "Matt Reconstructs History" is excellent and upfront about the use of AI but you can tell the videos are researched, organized, and edited by the author/content creator. AI is used as a tool, not a regurgitator. I think this goes for writing too.
Thank you for saying this. Where most niches/subcultures/communities i have a part in have become extremely dubious of AI, the online sports sim community is the only one that seems to actively embrace it. And it's weird. In a community where people can be detail oriented enough to have very strong opinions about reverse lefty-righty splits, it's odd they totally overlook a picture of a person with three arms or dice with fours on every side.
Maybe it's just the age of the community. Older people seem to like (or be unable to notice) AI content more than younger. (For the record, I am 51.) But people do need to hear that AI work is sloppy, obvious, and a turn off to potential audiences.
Couldn't disagree with you more. What difference does it make if you can tell AI wrote the story? The use of AI saves time and allows you more time to play your sims. Why would you care what I think? AI describes what happened in the game for the reader so they get the facts. My opinion.
Because AI writing is sloppy and unimaginative, and is an instant turn off to people who are used to reading it.
If you’re clearly using AI, my first inclination is to completely disregard anything you’ve said. I’m assuming that it’s the AI Chatbot talking, not you. If I wanted to talk with a chatbot, I’d go talk with a chatbot.
I think, from the perspective of many creators, AI stinks. I'll use what I learned about music from Rick Beato as an example. Every piece of AI music posted to YouTube is competing with every composition created by the mind and the talents of a human musician. I used to wonder where all those songs in my feed with one view that were posted just a few hours ago came from, until I realized that they're artificially created. For a musician this is insulting, and for a professional musician it directly affects their livelihood. From the perspective of a consumer, I think it comes down to taste. My wife occasionally watches those AI generated "Then and Now" videos (for example, the cast of the Goonies movie when they were kids in 1985 and what they look like now). I concede that those videos are a clever way of showcasing this popular pop culture genera, but I can't watch them - seeing an adult standing beside their younger self is off-putting and, on some level, offensive to my sensibilities. I have watched (and continue to watch) good AI generated content, but there's always instances of it glitching that gives it away.
Last month, I was writing an article for my local stamp club newsletter, and had the opportunity to "Bing" Dave Roberts, the first pick in the 1972 draft (I was writing about places named "Lebanon" in the US, and he's from Lebanon, Oregon). Microsoft Copilot returned a summary identifying him as the current manager of the Dodgers. Two baseball players named Dave Roberts was confounding to AI despite the fact that manager Dave Roberts was born on Okinawa less than a week before the elder Dave Roberts from Oregon became the first pick of the MLB draft. More to the point of your discussion, I think AI is here to stay, but in my opinion, society will figure out how to use it optimally, and human touch will eventually win out. To paraphrase the great wrestling commentator Gorilla Monsoon, I can tend to be a fountain of anecdotal information; but when I look back upon history, even recent history, the cutting-edge technology always changes but basic humanity does not. I've heard Rick Beato the music YouTuber talk about how AI is affecting the music business and listened to a handful of linguists weigh in on how to use it to learn languages. It's something I think every discipline is working through.
I’m probably on an island myself here, but I have no interest in any story written to accompany replay results, though if pressed I would like to see it written by someone who actually played the games , not AI . But I rarely read it.
I am more interested in the raw numbers, standings, tournament winners and such. Most likely from too much consumption of the 1973 Baseball Encyclopedia as a youth , hours of just randomly reading through the pages
I concur. AI writing is, mostly, unreadably bad. The very base level of competent but with such a repetitive style ("Here's the thing...", "It's not X; it's Y...", threefold repetition, etc) and formulaic structure that it's impossible to read anything written by it for very long unless you're already someone who spends a ton of time using chat bots.
For the most part I agree. The only way I might disagree is if someone is upfront about using AI and they use it to enhance their content rather than create it.
I like to watch history related video (sports and non-sports). The YouTube channel "Matt Reconstructs History" is excellent and upfront about the use of AI but you can tell the videos are researched, organized, and edited by the author/content creator. AI is used as a tool, not a regurgitator. I think this goes for writing too.
Thank you for saying this. Where most niches/subcultures/communities i have a part in have become extremely dubious of AI, the online sports sim community is the only one that seems to actively embrace it. And it's weird. In a community where people can be detail oriented enough to have very strong opinions about reverse lefty-righty splits, it's odd they totally overlook a picture of a person with three arms or dice with fours on every side.
Maybe it's just the age of the community. Older people seem to like (or be unable to notice) AI content more than younger. (For the record, I am 51.) But people do need to hear that AI work is sloppy, obvious, and a turn off to potential audiences.
Couldn't disagree with you more. What difference does it make if you can tell AI wrote the story? The use of AI saves time and allows you more time to play your sims. Why would you care what I think? AI describes what happened in the game for the reader so they get the facts. My opinion.
Because AI writing is sloppy and unimaginative, and is an instant turn off to people who are used to reading it.
If you’re clearly using AI, my first inclination is to completely disregard anything you’ve said. I’m assuming that it’s the AI Chatbot talking, not you. If I wanted to talk with a chatbot, I’d go talk with a chatbot.
I think, from the perspective of many creators, AI stinks. I'll use what I learned about music from Rick Beato as an example. Every piece of AI music posted to YouTube is competing with every composition created by the mind and the talents of a human musician. I used to wonder where all those songs in my feed with one view that were posted just a few hours ago came from, until I realized that they're artificially created. For a musician this is insulting, and for a professional musician it directly affects their livelihood. From the perspective of a consumer, I think it comes down to taste. My wife occasionally watches those AI generated "Then and Now" videos (for example, the cast of the Goonies movie when they were kids in 1985 and what they look like now). I concede that those videos are a clever way of showcasing this popular pop culture genera, but I can't watch them - seeing an adult standing beside their younger self is off-putting and, on some level, offensive to my sensibilities. I have watched (and continue to watch) good AI generated content, but there's always instances of it glitching that gives it away.
Why does it seem AI is taking the thinking out of writing? I’m not a good writer so you’ll know it was not conjured by AI.
I’m inviting people with opinions on AI here on Substack to vote on this poll. The results are not what I expected. Would love to hear your opinion.
https://guidedlightoasis.substack.com/p/the-ai-debate-for-creatives?r=6ueqhh
At the end of the day, this is a hobby do what brings you joy, with whatever does that for you, and share it with satisfaction and not expectations.
Last month, I was writing an article for my local stamp club newsletter, and had the opportunity to "Bing" Dave Roberts, the first pick in the 1972 draft (I was writing about places named "Lebanon" in the US, and he's from Lebanon, Oregon). Microsoft Copilot returned a summary identifying him as the current manager of the Dodgers. Two baseball players named Dave Roberts was confounding to AI despite the fact that manager Dave Roberts was born on Okinawa less than a week before the elder Dave Roberts from Oregon became the first pick of the MLB draft. More to the point of your discussion, I think AI is here to stay, but in my opinion, society will figure out how to use it optimally, and human touch will eventually win out. To paraphrase the great wrestling commentator Gorilla Monsoon, I can tend to be a fountain of anecdotal information; but when I look back upon history, even recent history, the cutting-edge technology always changes but basic humanity does not. I've heard Rick Beato the music YouTuber talk about how AI is affecting the music business and listened to a handful of linguists weigh in on how to use it to learn languages. It's something I think every discipline is working through.