AI scrapes the internet and uses everything available to it, all original work is it’s fodder. For instance, I could ask it to create a visionary art work in the style of Imelda Almqvist about Sedna and as long as your art is available to it, it could make that for me and it would look uncannily just like yours. I believe that using AI is plagiarism and stealing original ideas. Using it is selling ourselves short and selling ourselves out as human beings. As an artist I will never use it and I have taken down any of my public facing art on the internet. We all died in 2021.
Hi Janee, yes it is frightening! I know several people who have already taken down their artwork. I have not done that so far but I may well get there in the future. Thank you for painting such a vivid picture of what is going on! "We all died in 2021" - that is quoteable!
I am not that optimistic about AI, in fact I am afraid of it.AI can have a bebeficial use but we can see in the history that when something is discovered or invented ( gun powder, nucleair enercy) the first thing that is done is to to see how to use it as a weapon .
You are right that weaponised AI or the technology falling the wrong hands is one of the most terrifying outcomes. And it is inevitable unless safeguards and legislation are put in place. It seems to be possible to code ethical AI, but this might be less profitable... :(
There are so many ethical and moral implications and challenges set by this technology, which is still in its infancy. I'm experimenting using it at work, and can see it as a tool for certain tasks (I'm a communications professional at a university) but am aware of the risks as well as the potential benefits. It's going to be a challenge for PR professionals (or anyone) to spot deep fake content, and manage the reputational fall out, damage and otherwise those fakes will bring, let alone it's destabilising potential.
There is of course the shadow side of all this tech in the 4th industrial revolution. It's a huge leap and causing so much to speed up, when I think we need to slow down.
AI is here to stay, there is no getting away from that. The Pandora's Box is open now.
So many questions and dilemmas it poses.
But it does write awful poetry...proof to me that true poetry comes from great spirit, from soul, which AI has (yet) to possess, by its own admission.
Written as someone with direct experience of AI, thank you for weighing in! But yes awful cheesy poetry and AI art does not come close to my own (real) paintings either. It is good to know that we have "tells" to navigate by. For the time being anyway. Experts are saying that only a few years from now we will not be able to tell the difference between a human and an AI humanoid. Are we collectively creating an utopian or dystopian reality? Should that not be a collective choice and decision?!
Oh my gosh you raise so many valid points especially about the multiple worlds theory but truly the scariest aspect it geared towards our kids and future generations. It enrages me so much that pedophiles will abuse this in such a sick way to gain more traction as an acceptable mainstream group in society. But also the implications of kids and teens in their formidable years learning from a machine rather than having human to human contact in exchanging ideas, emotions. We already struggle with communication as there are so many nuances to communicating that that gap will widen.
I totally agree AI needs laws in place governing its use immediately. Your post here just makes me think it even more! I also think this of social media by the way. These are dangerous places for kids and teens and need to have an age limit enforced by law. Also there should be a mandatory disclosure something - where people using AI for writing or art have to state that it was created by AI.
Regarding your bio there written by an AI - we've discovered in our work that if AI doesn't know the answer to something, it will just make it up. So, like your son, we use for generating ideas and inspiration, not for fact checking.
Hi Sky, I agree totally that anything (co) created by AI needs to be labelled as such (and not doing that should be a punishable offense). That would also give university lecturers some power back, in terms of who wrote the essays that students submit and graduate on! Yes to tech support in inspiration but then a hard boundary, agreed by all, for the greater good of all...
And a (symbolic) death unfailingly occurs in any paradigm shift. The world tilts on her axis and we no longer know who we are.
I hope that we will harness the powers of AI for the greater good of all without unleashing something we cannot control or reign in. That is the challenge humanity faces right now....
AI scrapes the internet and uses everything available to it, all original work is it’s fodder. For instance, I could ask it to create a visionary art work in the style of Imelda Almqvist about Sedna and as long as your art is available to it, it could make that for me and it would look uncannily just like yours. I believe that using AI is plagiarism and stealing original ideas. Using it is selling ourselves short and selling ourselves out as human beings. As an artist I will never use it and I have taken down any of my public facing art on the internet. We all died in 2021.
Hi Janee, yes it is frightening! I know several people who have already taken down their artwork. I have not done that so far but I may well get there in the future. Thank you for painting such a vivid picture of what is going on! "We all died in 2021" - that is quoteable!
I am not that optimistic about AI, in fact I am afraid of it.AI can have a bebeficial use but we can see in the history that when something is discovered or invented ( gun powder, nucleair enercy) the first thing that is done is to to see how to use it as a weapon .
You are right that weaponised AI or the technology falling the wrong hands is one of the most terrifying outcomes. And it is inevitable unless safeguards and legislation are put in place. It seems to be possible to code ethical AI, but this might be less profitable... :(
There are so many ethical and moral implications and challenges set by this technology, which is still in its infancy. I'm experimenting using it at work, and can see it as a tool for certain tasks (I'm a communications professional at a university) but am aware of the risks as well as the potential benefits. It's going to be a challenge for PR professionals (or anyone) to spot deep fake content, and manage the reputational fall out, damage and otherwise those fakes will bring, let alone it's destabilising potential.
There is of course the shadow side of all this tech in the 4th industrial revolution. It's a huge leap and causing so much to speed up, when I think we need to slow down.
AI is here to stay, there is no getting away from that. The Pandora's Box is open now.
So many questions and dilemmas it poses.
But it does write awful poetry...proof to me that true poetry comes from great spirit, from soul, which AI has (yet) to possess, by its own admission.
Written as someone with direct experience of AI, thank you for weighing in! But yes awful cheesy poetry and AI art does not come close to my own (real) paintings either. It is good to know that we have "tells" to navigate by. For the time being anyway. Experts are saying that only a few years from now we will not be able to tell the difference between a human and an AI humanoid. Are we collectively creating an utopian or dystopian reality? Should that not be a collective choice and decision?!
Oh my gosh you raise so many valid points especially about the multiple worlds theory but truly the scariest aspect it geared towards our kids and future generations. It enrages me so much that pedophiles will abuse this in such a sick way to gain more traction as an acceptable mainstream group in society. But also the implications of kids and teens in their formidable years learning from a machine rather than having human to human contact in exchanging ideas, emotions. We already struggle with communication as there are so many nuances to communicating that that gap will widen.
I totally agree AI needs laws in place governing its use immediately. Your post here just makes me think it even more! I also think this of social media by the way. These are dangerous places for kids and teens and need to have an age limit enforced by law. Also there should be a mandatory disclosure something - where people using AI for writing or art have to state that it was created by AI.
Regarding your bio there written by an AI - we've discovered in our work that if AI doesn't know the answer to something, it will just make it up. So, like your son, we use for generating ideas and inspiration, not for fact checking.
Hi Sky, I agree totally that anything (co) created by AI needs to be labelled as such (and not doing that should be a punishable offense). That would also give university lecturers some power back, in terms of who wrote the essays that students submit and graduate on! Yes to tech support in inspiration but then a hard boundary, agreed by all, for the greater good of all...
I love ur substack so far. Knowledgeble conversations... critical thinking.... discussion!!! It is needed so badly right now!
Thank you!! May I share your kind words as an endorsement on my website please?!
Of course. Share the wealth!
Thank you! I appreciate that!
Will libraries filled with pre AI books, become sacred places?
Will old books become more treasured?
Will oral teaching become more appreciated?
Will our evolution result in diminished imagination?
I agree AI is here to stay, so how do we protect our human individuality and unique qualities or do we accept we did all die in 2021?
Dear Linda,
You ask all the right questions!!
And a (symbolic) death unfailingly occurs in any paradigm shift. The world tilts on her axis and we no longer know who we are.
I hope that we will harness the powers of AI for the greater good of all without unleashing something we cannot control or reign in. That is the challenge humanity faces right now....
Imelda