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The Hidden Cost of AI Art: Brandon Sanderson (www.brandonsanderson.com)
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An interesting keynote about hidden cost of AI Art by the author Brandon Sanderson. I might be a bit biased though, since Sanderson is my favourite author, and I am resistant to some of the things "AI" is used for, if not completely anti-AI.

What do you think about this?

Note: It's from the event in Dec 2025, it was just posted in text form recently. If you want to watch the video, you can do it here: https://youtu.be/RXyWtp8tuYY?t=1988 (about 15-20 mins long, might have to go couple of seconds forward or backward)

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[–] dresden@discuss.online 1 points 14 hours ago

“Why read another human’s writing if an AI’s is better?”

I think that was the whole point, this is "the hidden cost of AI Art". AI (or LLMs) might be able to compete (or supersede us) on the end-product level, but it can't create "art". If you don't care about art, then the whole discussion doesn't matter, but then it will cost us our growth as humans.

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