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fzeroracer | on: Warranty Void If Regenerated
If you commission a baker to bake you a cake, did you make the cake? What if you added sprinkles on top?
vintermann | parent
If you commission a baker, another person, with wants and desires of their own, is involved.

If you use an AI, there isn't.

Either way, it's clear that the author (yes, the author) put a lot of work into this by iterating and shaping it to what he wanted, and that's a lot more than sprinkles.

fzeroracer | root | parent
> If you commission a baker, another person, with wants and desires of their own, is involved.

> If you use an AI, there isn't.

What is the functional difference here? You are commissioning (see: prompting) someone (see: an AI) for a piece of work, or artwork or whatever. The output is out of your control; and I don't think the existence or lack thereof of a human on the other end materially matters.

If we had hyper-advanced ovens from The Jetsons where we could type a prompt using a fold-out keyboard and it would magically generate whatever cake we ask of it: did we or did we not bake that cake? And I do not think it is clear the author put a lot of work iterating and shaping it into what he wanted; we have zero insight into that.

vintermann | root | parent
I didn't say the difference was functional. If you don't think the presence of a human on the other end matters (materially or not), feel free to continue this conversation with an LLM simulation of me. You can even prompt it so that you logically triumph and convince "me".
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