The world is getting increasingly artificial. And by world, I mean the online spaces most of us inhabit for many/most of our waking hours.
I'm starting to wonder if knowledge and expertise as we know it isn't being rewritten and entirely outsourced to machines. I plan to post about some increasingly disturbing trends I'm seeing.
I'm glad I wrote Flame and Crimson before generative AI, lest I be accused of having a machine do the work. I'm not using AI at all in my WIP metal memoir, either.
I'm not anti-AI. I think this tech has massive positive potential for humanity. In my own professional niche I've seen how it can for example allow physicians to offload burdensome documentation requirements and restore sanity to a burned out, overworked profession.
But I think in the creative realms gen AI something close to a cancer. It's definitely slop.
You will never see ChatGPT generated text on this blog. Or generative AI images.
I value human beings and authentic creativity, the product of human minds and souls. It's why I revere live performances and continue to attend them. I believe in human beings, as fucked up and flawed as we often are.
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Did you see the Chicago Sun Times bruhaha?
They used ChatGP to generate an article about summer reading.
Authors were real. "upcoming" books were almost all fake.
Yep... I'd say it's an incredible embarrassment for the Sun but unfortunately every national media outlet is a similar embarrassment. If you cut through the BS it is the unforgivable sin in journalism--plagiarism. An author faked writing the piece using a plagiarism machine, then couldn't be bothered to glance at the output, let alone fact-check it. Not to mention a machine cannot actually "recommend" anything, it's merely borrowing from other's recommendations (or in this case, hallucinating them). But I suppose it's fine to turn over our future to the machines...
As someone I follow on YouTube recently pointed out, "When you are asking AI a question you are not asking some all-knowing god or even a conscious megamind like C-3PO. You are asking a crappy version of Google search."
Another thing I don't like is the rapacious feeding of unauthorized information into the algorithm, aka "Big Giant Head". I have read several recent stories of artists claiming their work (writing, music, etc.) has been stolen in this way. I keep asking myself, "What would Conan do?"
Artists' rights have been mercilessly trampled. Clearly the system favors corporate rights over any individual--and is due for a course correction, IMO.
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