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s1artibartfast • yesterday at 10:57 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

This is also how it works for humans too. What portion of human art produced in 2025 or 1925 do you think was fresh and novel, compared to derived and repetitive?

The same is true for science and Engineering.

What matters is if you have a method of sorting through the repetitive trash


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smitty1e • yesterday at 11:28 PM

It's not my contention that AI & people do not both conform to Sturgeon's Law[0].

Rather, that AI is unlikely to produce a fresh Marcin Patrzalek[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

[1] https://youtu.be/zbfKFa-reBE?is=pHxTCFcfyU0evbvi