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About The Mediocrity Of Artificial Intelligence

Writer's picture: J.T. BlossomJ.T. Blossom




Feb. 2 2025

You know those AI-generated art videos where images roll into each other and morph strangely into different images that are amazing to behold? Your first reaction is that they are beautiful, even epic in their accomplishment.


But then you realize that no computer could ever generate those images out of a soulful reservoir of feeling. They are just visual montages managed by algorithms and manipulations of imagistic possibility. Watch these addictive videos long enough and your mind inevitably gets numb, even bored. Like a drug high, art generated by machines inevitably gravitates toward mediocrity and ultimately a brain rot hangover.


Art needs to come from living human beings if it is to engender true and lasting feelings of awe. Where before we used to honor human authors who opened up our world to amazing new possibilities guided by deep artistic vision, now we live in an age where AI-generated writing is taking us into an era of extreme blah-ness. An ocean of just okay run-of-the-mill non-fiction and children’s fiction is flooding online bookstores due to AI and is starting to infiltrate adult fiction as well.


Learn to recognize the AI organizational and syntactical tropes. It’s not too hard to do. Before you buy a book just check. Is the author unverifiable as a real person? Is credit given to a human illustrator? Is the work boringly perfect in its organization and expression? Are the paragraphs overly general, repetitious, and impersonal? If so, it’s probably AI.


I wrote Master in The Last Football Player as a sympathetic character, but only because of her ultimate realization of the necessity to acquire a human body. One of the points of the book is that a robot programmed to play football exactly like Tom Brady would play football can never be Tom Brady playing football. Even in the same pads and uniform, we could easily tell who’s fake. Let’s hope that in the future we don’t become dumbed down enough to not perceive such differences anymore.


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