The 2–7 problem – Anton Sten
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AI is bad at making things that are great. It's also bad at making things that are bad. The second half is the part worth talking about.
Emmett Shine said something a while back that I haven’t been able to shake. He was talking about AI output — not in the abstract, but on a scale. Picture a one-to-ten grade for quality. A 10 is the thing you remember for years. A 1 is the thing that makes you stop scrolling because it’s so off it’s interesting. A 5 is competent. Forgettable. Fine. Most things in the world live somewhere on that scale, and most of them sit around the middle. His point: AI output never leaves the middle. It always lands somewhere between a 2 and a 7. Never a 1. Never an 8. The line that stuck: AI is bad at makin
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