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Why should you bother to look at an image nobody could be bothered to create?

Why should you watch a movie nobody could be bothered to film?

Why should you bother to run a program nobody could be bothered to write?

My gut response was to agree with you, but it seems like the most obvious answer is entertainment, with plenty of other answers along for the ride.




I guess I agree with your overall point, but see things like music/tv/movies/images different from programs.

The purpose of a program (for me) is to solve a particular problem, or help me in some other way. They're usually categorized as "Works well enough" and "Not for me", and it's easy to see without using them, what category I'll file them into.

But media is different. They're not supposed to "solve" anything, just supposed to make me feel something for a duration of time, and after that they're "consumed" until I forget about them, or until I engage with it again. I usually don't know how I feel about the thing until after I've consumed it.

Personally, I've found LLMs to greatly help with creating small utility programs for myself, which I've been doing since I started programming, but now I spend maybe 20-30 minutes (mostly just refactoring stuff by hand takes time) before the utility is helpful, vs many hours which it used to take to put together the same thing.

Media that is 100% created with ML tooling tends to be very different in quality than human made media. I'm not 100% convinced it's because of the tooling itself, as much as the people who use the tooling don't have enough experience to create media from before to know what to create, or what it should be.




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