{"id":176469,"date":"2023-11-22T03:22:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T09:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/ai-companies-desperately-hiring-authors-and-poets-to-fix-their-crappy-writing"},"modified":"2023-11-22T03:22:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T09:22:34","slug":"ai-companies-desperately-hiring-authors-and-poets-to-fix-their-crappy-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/ai-companies-desperately-hiring-authors-and-poets-to-fix-their-crappy-writing","title":{"rendered":"AI Companies Desperately Hiring Authors and Poets to Fix Their Crappy Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-companies-desperately-hiring-authors-and-poets-to-fix-their-crappy-writing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an open secret that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/cnet-ai-errors\" class=\"\">generative AI is terrible<\/a> at coming up with original and creative writing.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, that\u2019s to be expected, given its inherent nature \u2014 machine learning systems typically churn through the internet and remix what they\u2019ve gobbled up, often in nonsensical or uninspiring ways.<\/p>\n<p>To remedy the situation, some of Silicon Valley\u2019s biggest AI companies are now resorting to hiring poets and writers with humanity degrees, <a href=\"https:\/\/restofworld.org\/2023\/ai-developers-fiction-poetry-scale-ai-appen\/\" class=\"\"><em>Rest of World<\/em> reports<\/a>, which is an ironic twist, considering publishers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/insider-layoffs-ai\" class=\"\">laying off<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/sports-illustrated-lays-off-journalists-ai-content\" class=\"\">writers and editors<\/a> while making big investments in generative AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an open secret that generative AI is terrible at coming up with original and creative writing. In many ways, that\u2019s to be expected, given its inherent nature \u2014 machine learning systems typically churn through the internet and remix what they\u2019ve gobbled up, often in nonsensical or uninspiring ways. To remedy the situation, some of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}