I enjoyed your balanced viewpoint and look forward to what you have to add in Part 2. For me, having thought about this more from a music point of view (reviewer and fan), I would place the line in the sand between actual creation and refining said creation. That is, an author who has written something themselves, and is using AI to refine and edit their own creation, I have less of an issue with. For some one chucking a few prompts into AI and the AI does the writing for the "author", I consider this properly beyond the pale. You have some great thoughts on a thorny issue that, (you are right), is not going to go away. We need this conversation.
I agree a lot with your take on it after my watching of this as a creative and a tech nerd. I've seen a lot of amazing tech rolled out in my life, with me being in the thick of it for a couple of decades. Some of it was amazing and other times it led to more scariness of how easily we could gain information and have hacks into our personal info. They still haven't gotten past a lot of the same tricks despite the tech upgrades. I doubt AI will help them because in the end, truth is the truth.
I rather like how AI can analyze and compile things faster. It's far from perfect though. You still have to make it tell you its sources and verify them as if it were a student handing in a paper.
As for it stealing all the art in the world - just with books, we throw 3 million of them out there a year in the US alone. I can smell the smoke from here of even the biggest data array trying to consume all of this. :) There's no money in it unless they copy famous authors and those are easier to track because they are well known.
I for one will use AI for tedious things, but I prefer the fun of collaborating creatively with other truly sentient beings with huge opinions and emotions.
I appreciate your balanced take on the issue of AI and writing, Jack. It's definitely a thorny one, and while I have my opinions, I respect people learning about the issue and forming their own. I look forward to part 2!!!!
I enjoyed your balanced viewpoint and look forward to what you have to add in Part 2. For me, having thought about this more from a music point of view (reviewer and fan), I would place the line in the sand between actual creation and refining said creation. That is, an author who has written something themselves, and is using AI to refine and edit their own creation, I have less of an issue with. For some one chucking a few prompts into AI and the AI does the writing for the "author", I consider this properly beyond the pale. You have some great thoughts on a thorny issue that, (you are right), is not going to go away. We need this conversation.
I agree a lot with your take on it after my watching of this as a creative and a tech nerd. I've seen a lot of amazing tech rolled out in my life, with me being in the thick of it for a couple of decades. Some of it was amazing and other times it led to more scariness of how easily we could gain information and have hacks into our personal info. They still haven't gotten past a lot of the same tricks despite the tech upgrades. I doubt AI will help them because in the end, truth is the truth.
I rather like how AI can analyze and compile things faster. It's far from perfect though. You still have to make it tell you its sources and verify them as if it were a student handing in a paper.
As for it stealing all the art in the world - just with books, we throw 3 million of them out there a year in the US alone. I can smell the smoke from here of even the biggest data array trying to consume all of this. :) There's no money in it unless they copy famous authors and those are easier to track because they are well known.
I for one will use AI for tedious things, but I prefer the fun of collaborating creatively with other truly sentient beings with huge opinions and emotions.
I appreciate your balanced take on the issue of AI and writing, Jack. It's definitely a thorny one, and while I have my opinions, I respect people learning about the issue and forming their own. I look forward to part 2!!!!
Hmmm.... I wonder what AI would write about that topic.