I think the "Artisanal Human" market will become more popular as the full-automation crowd continues to scale up their output. Part of enjoying a service or product is understanding that someone invested time and effort to ensure you have a good experience with what they offer. Ironically, the more low-effort AI that is generated, the more valuable the virtue signaling from the artisanal human crowd becomes. I think the most successful group will probably be someone who can demonstrate that their content is original, but who also augments their production process with technology to produce banger after banger.
I use ChatGPT to help with writing and I once asked it how to cite ChatGPT and how I should include ChatGPT as a co-author. It practically scolded me for even suggesting that! Wow. That's a problem in itself (for another time) but I always mention when I use AI. I do this because it is honest and if I didn't have ChatGPT I know I would not be writing. I don't like to write. There are too many boring aspects of writing like doing the literature search, following the citation path to find new articles related to a given article, synthesizing & organizing the literature (NotebookLM is great for this task), generating an outline, creating APA-style citations (major drag), rewriting, rewriting, rewriting, etc. I am okay with having to check everything ChatGPT produces; it makes a lot of errors but it is mostly correct (human in the loop). AI gets you up and running quickly. There are just too many topics that bother me. I have to write something.
I think the "Artisanal Human" market will become more popular as the full-automation crowd continues to scale up their output. Part of enjoying a service or product is understanding that someone invested time and effort to ensure you have a good experience with what they offer. Ironically, the more low-effort AI that is generated, the more valuable the virtue signaling from the artisanal human crowd becomes. I think the most successful group will probably be someone who can demonstrate that their content is original, but who also augments their production process with technology to produce banger after banger.
Exactly this.
The slop flood actually increases the value of craft—if you can produce it sustainably.
The purists are right that quality matters. They're wrong that refusing tools is the only way to get there.
I use ChatGPT to help with writing and I once asked it how to cite ChatGPT and how I should include ChatGPT as a co-author. It practically scolded me for even suggesting that! Wow. That's a problem in itself (for another time) but I always mention when I use AI. I do this because it is honest and if I didn't have ChatGPT I know I would not be writing. I don't like to write. There are too many boring aspects of writing like doing the literature search, following the citation path to find new articles related to a given article, synthesizing & organizing the literature (NotebookLM is great for this task), generating an outline, creating APA-style citations (major drag), rewriting, rewriting, rewriting, etc. I am okay with having to check everything ChatGPT produces; it makes a lot of errors but it is mostly correct (human in the loop). AI gets you up and running quickly. There are just too many topics that bother me. I have to write something.
This is Tier 2 in practice. Human in the loop. Honest about the assist. Doing work that wouldn't exist otherwise.
The purists would rather you wrote nothing than wrote with help.
That's not protecting craft. That's gatekeeping who gets to participate.
Right on brother. Also, write on brother!!!!
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Those who criticize AI-assisted writing are snobbish fools failing to grasp the idea of a target audience.
https://open.substack.com/pub/themaverickmapmaker/p/you-cannot-please-everyone