I used to post religiously on Reddit's /r/writingprompts

Reddit's API was sold to train AI

There's a good chance that some people out there are reading things inspired by my stories

I was never paid for this, and it should feel bad, but part of me naively hopes that through the digital lens of the internet and the cosmos, my small contribution has made their existence easier, or happier in some way.

Human creativity, and art, contains the soul or essence of its creator; everyone puts a small piece of themselves into their writing; a distant memory, an ambition, a dream, a memoir.

I don't think we should stop writing creative works of art as a species. But I do think we should have a simple label on any new books, something that tells you whether it's 100% whole milk or made from reconstituted milk powder. Like a fair trade label of a robot head.

I say this as someone who's still currently building/working on foundational models full-time.

LLMs will kill my hobby, and have cost a few people I personally know their jobs already.

But we should keep on writing anyway despite all of that, because I feel people still want to read books made by humans.

Don't give up.