> if everything comes from a single AI mind, it all fails in the same general kind of way
I'm reminded of https://qntm.org/mmacevedo ; even if we don't get brain uploading, we have a similar sort of thing going on with synthetic "personalities" of LLMs.
> diversity beats even very smart geniuses.
Some of HN will get very mad about that statement but it is often true. Of course, the best combination is a diverse collection of geniuses, which is why midcentury openish borders US did so well.
> The image generators do seem to be able to get meaningfully distinct output styles
Generally they can plagiarize in the style of any human artist you can name whose work is on the internet. Artists are, not unreasonably, upset about this.
My inspiration was from Alastair Reynolds putting indoctrinal viruses into the Revelation Space series, listening to an audio book of that several years before mmacevedo was published. At the time, I was thinking of how AI might enforce group-think, rather than write the content itself directly: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2019/12/30-18.46.50.html
> Generally they can plagiarize in the style of any human artist you can name whose work is on the internet. Artists are, not unreasonably, upset about this.
Indeed, but so can LLMs of text styles. I meant more of the "voice" seems to be different between them — there seems to be more of a difference between getting SDXL and SD 3.5 (or DALL•E 2 and whatever it's called now it's baked into ChatGPT) to mimic, say, Hieronymus Bosch, than there is between getting GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 4 to do a poem in the style of a Shakespeare soliloquy.
On the other hand, this may just be my limited appreciation for the arts, as per XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1015/
I'm reminded of https://qntm.org/mmacevedo ; even if we don't get brain uploading, we have a similar sort of thing going on with synthetic "personalities" of LLMs.
> diversity beats even very smart geniuses.
Some of HN will get very mad about that statement but it is often true. Of course, the best combination is a diverse collection of geniuses, which is why midcentury openish borders US did so well.
> The image generators do seem to be able to get meaningfully distinct output styles
Generally they can plagiarize in the style of any human artist you can name whose work is on the internet. Artists are, not unreasonably, upset about this.