#maybe got a bit preachy or overly vehement on something I barely know about and am still working through myself
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I feel like some of the reason that generative AI and AI tools have become popular and that things like this seem to be helpful, is the focus on completing or finishing something.
We don't necessarily get credit just for showing up to class; we also have to pass the test. The goal is only met when the website page is written and published.
In some instances and scenarios, using completion as a metric is understandable, but to experiment with other metrics of value, I have been trying to allow for areas where that doesn't matter. And just allow to try and fail, or get better, or just do the process because then I'm doing it.
I play guitar though I have no plans to play anything at all - but I put my fingers on the fretboard and experimented with what made sound. I bake a cookie recipe and chase the flavor or texture as the whim takes me and sometimes change it 10 times before the end result.
When the goal becomes "finish the book", then having it summed up makes perfect sense. The goal being "hear the author and their turn of phrase even if it's strange" or "sympathise with the characters and feel their journey" it's different.
Have you ever read lyrics before hearing a song? I don't know if it's just me, but they make no bloody sense when I do. And sometimes it's a song I know, and I read the lyrics and they fall flat, have zero impact, and are completely indecipherable. But when spaced out, set to instrument, emphasized in certain ways, suddenly many meanings emerge as each phrase is sung.
Idk, I think it's kind of like that?
But when I'm just trying to quickly absorb the meaning of the song through the lyrics, I miss the meaning of the song - but I did take in all the lyrics.
Making completed works, and getting good grades, and making products - all emphasize that the only value is after something is finished. So, I kind of get the push for tools to help us finish things quicker, so we achieve the thing.
But sometimes I think we need the space to not do that, and have it be valued - the work in progress, or even just the partially executed ideas, starts of things, and random trails that lead nowhere in the end but were a part of the experience. Running through hypotheticals and discarding choices and only making it 70% of the way through a course. There is no closed loop, or job well done, or finale. But they still matter and added to and enriched my life and sometimes prepared me for some other thing.
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#giggles speaks#giggles rambles#tbh idk which tag is more appropriate#it's a little of both#maybe got a bit preachy or overly vehement on something I barely know about and am still working through myself#but I hope it made sense#wanted to add this perspective bc I haven't heard it much#but it's the number one thing I have found is the reason that people use Gen AI in my circle#and I have sometimes considered the utility of using it#however I realized I may get an immediate result and could check the box#but the content would not be to our purpose or that I could feel confident in#so i did the slog and it worked out#I had the freedom to and no pressure#ai discourse#and also like with ai generated art!#there have been times I wished I could have my idea just go down on paper#so I totally get it!#it's only been since the generated versus not discussion that has been happening now#that I understood the struggle#WAS PART OF IT#I heard so many people bemoan it I thought it was literally not good#but it's more just like...
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