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Talia Hussain

Interesting paper- AI is not boosting your creativity

“We found that support from an AI image generator during ideation leads to higher fixation on an initial example. Participants who used AI produced fewer ideas, with less variety and lower originality compared to a baseline.”

dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/36

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L.J., un-author-ized writer

@Talia This is why I don't use "AI" in my translation work. Yeah I'm supposed to edit its output or whatever, but the initial (crappy) output still has an anchoring effect and psychological/physical inertia works against making too many changes. Yeah there's value in seeing a variety of suggestions and examples, but I can get those through dictionaries and database searches WITHOUT destroying the planet.

Talia Hussain

@ljwrites well said. In creative work, I often find inspiration and ideas come from apparently unrelated areas. Look around with a prepared and open mind and ideas present themselves

Richard Varga :esk:

@ljwrites @Talia Precisely. I don't use AI nor MT in my translation work because the initial output sets up a bias that I could overcome only if I had the ability to literally unsee things. I want the result to be the result of *MY* work.

L.J., un-author-ized writer

@larsimore This! LLM/MT outputs are mediocre at best and wildly incorrect at worst, nothing I want to be putting my name on. Back when I was getting post-editing jobs I edited so much the screen was a wall of color from tracked changes, and even then errors and inconsistencies still slipped through. Thankfully these jobs have petered out lately and I'm getting real translation work again, maybe companies are finally realizing the quality hit isn't worth it.

raganwald 🍓

@Talia In days of yore we used paper mockups of software user experiences. I recall attending a weekend workshop on design where the instructor explained that the mockups should look a little sloppy, e.g. hand-lettered.

Claimed that high-fidelity mockups felt “done” and closed down creativity. Later, I tried a Mac drawing app called “napkin” designed around the same principle. Everything looked ad hoc.

JDS

@Talia long but interesting read, thanks 🙌

jesterchen42

@Talia And I bet this holds true for the art of programming as well...

David

@Talia I would have assumed the opposite anyway. “Using AI to do our creative work” kind of says it all. If you are relying on something else to do your creative work, naturally you are going to be less creative as a result. That just seems logical to me.

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