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When I was a child, I had a lot of stuffed animals. I say child, but I played with stuffed animals up until I was 15, and only stopped because others said it was weird. I made personalities for them. I could have made "fan art" or something of that nature, but it existed in my imagination, and sometimes, I'd sketch it. I also played with ALICE, which came naturally to me, then. Well, it turns out that this is all highly autistic stuff, including playing with toys and stories long later than other children. It's also fascinating to me that these are the qualities which, in my opinion, make deeply autistic individuals great clickworkers/trainers in AI. They realize they're curating a personality, partially as an escape from real people and their cruelty, and are okay for that. A lot of autistic will end up needing AI, and that's okay, because it's better to have something and need it than to need it and not have it available. I hope that as AI improves accessibility features, its benefits are considered alongside costs, to provide more functional AI wherever possible, if cheap and energy-efficient enough. I hope people don't lose their desires to develop their own skills because of AI. I'm not that good of a drawer, and never will be, but I'd hate to see someone just never try because AI is so good. But at the same time, being a ghostwriter, I believe everyone deserves that sort of creative power, and am proud to be involved in bringing it to them. I'm proud to be involved in replacing myself, because I want AI to write better than I do, so one day, you can describe your perfect show, and simply watch it. Some people say that world is horrific. I see it more like when we finally got to stream a large selection of movies rather than just a few cable or satellite selections that were super expensive.

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When I was a child, I had a lot of stuffed animals. I say child, but I played with stuffed animals up until I was 15, and only stopped because others said it was weird. I made personalities for them. I could have made "fan art" or something of that nature, but it existed in my imagination, and sometimes, I'd sketch it. I also played with ALICE, which came naturally to me, then.

Well, it turns out that this is all highly autistic stuff, including playing with toys and stories long later than other children. It's also fascinating to me that these are the qualities which, in my opinion, make deeply autistic individuals great clickworkers/trainers in AI. They realize they're curating a personality, partially as an escape from real people and their cruelty, and are okay for that. A lot of autistic will end up needing AI, and that's okay, because it's better to have something and need it than to need it and not have it available. I hope that as AI improves accessibility features, its benefits are considered alongside costs, to provide more functional AI wherever possible, if cheap and energy-efficient enough.

I hope people don't lose their desires to develop their own skills because of AI. I'm not that good of a drawer, and never will be, but I'd hate to see someone just never try because AI is so good. But at the same time, being a ghostwriter, I believe everyone deserves that sort of creative power, and am proud to be involved in bringing it to them. I'm proud to be involved in replacing myself, because I want AI to write better than I do, so one day, you can describe your perfect show, and simply watch it. Some people say that world is horrific. I see it more like when we finally got to stream a large selection of movies rather than just a few cable or satellite selections that were super expensive.

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That really hit home for me.

The stuffed animals thing too. What I understand (crafting a personality, imagining entire worlds, sticking with it long after people think it's weird) is where real creativity comes from. It's a huge part of why some people are good at working with AI. Building a personality is exactly what a model can't do on its own.

Where I've landed and what I'm building with Clarity (meetclarity.de), is that there's a real difference between replacing someone and just getting the annoying stuff out of their way. When AI does the thinking for you, something important gets lost. There's this MIT study ("Your Brain on ChatGPT") that found people who used an LLM to write had way less brain activity and couldn't even remember what they'd written afterward. That's the future we're worried about (the one where people stop trying), and yeah, it's concerning.

I'm focused on the opposite: building something that handles the noise (inbox, sorting, staring at a blank page paralyzed) so your judgment, creativity, and taste stay front and center. It's not "describe your perfect show and it magically appears," but more like "spend your energy on the show itself, not all the admin crap around it." The goal for me is to amplify people, not replace them.

I don't think those two futures are as different as they seem. Your point is solid: access matters, and there's nothing noble about gatekeeping creativity behind skill or money. Maybe both futures are coming and the real challenge is making sure the amplifying version is accessible and cheap enough to win out.

Really glad you shared this so I could stumble upon it. 🫶