Lex Fridman: preference

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…I agree. … fundamentally boring about it, and I’ve been trying to figure it out. For example, I use it a lot for—more and more and more for programming. So, for building stuff. And there, it’s not about the… The final output is not the code. The output is what the code creates. And there, it’s extremely useful. It doesn’t matter if it’s boring or not, it’s useful. But when the final output is the thing that AI creates, which it would be in music, then there’s something about us that just, like… We know. There is something boring about it. We want to celebrate and see the thing that’s hard to create. And if AI can just text a song, “Generate a top 10 hit,” we’ll quickly lose value for that, I think. And so, we’ll want raw. Whatever shape that raw takes, I want to say raw talent, but that raw talent of any kind. And perhaps… It would make me a little bit sad, but that’s also awesome. Perhaps the new kind of raw talent that civilization is asking for is how to make great TikToks. Maybe that’s what raw talent looks like. It makes me a little bit sad because I’m a huge fan of long-form. But that also… Creating TikToks is also talent. It is a talent. Absolutely. When I see anything that’s AI generated, I instantly recognize it. Any video, I’m like, “Ugh, boring, boring, boring.” And my kids do the same thing. They just have no interest in engaging with it. As soon as they recognize it, and they can spot it a mile away— …and they’re just like, “Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring.” And then they don’t even wanna engage with the social media platforms, which is a danger. Which I think they need to crack down on the AI slop. YouTube’s done a pretty good job on it, but it’s hard to stay on this. It gets flooded with so much of this stuff, it’s so easy to create and put up there. And to just be in the whack-a-mole thing where you’re just trying to get rid of it all is a—…

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