I'm gating a lot of my content on my website these days. The reasons are numerous, which I detail in this post, but namely - I want AI companies, Google & other corporations to "work for it" if they want my content to boost their profits, and also: I want to keep some stuff more private.
Tag: ChatGPT
Is the Internet really broken?
My thoughts about The Verge's article, The people who ruined the Internet and Danny Sullivan's response, and the conversation swirling around SEO and the suckiness of the Internet.
Google: All your content are belong to us
In a move that surprised absolutely nobody, Google has changed its privacy policy to declare that they will scrape up anything you post online to train their AI tools. How should writers and artists protect their content from now on?
The point of my words
People are dying. The world is in chaos. Do our words matter?
📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.Why I’m illustrating my stories without AI Art
My discomfort with tools such as Midjourney is a big reason, but I find it far more enjoyable to use human-generated art.
📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.Monday Notes: AI
With ChatGPT, Dall-e, the recent announcement of Google’s Bard, AI seems to be everywhere. While the tech-inclined* are excited about the change, some of us are more … wary, depressed, even. And I notice those who are feeling this way are the artists, the writers, the people who create. We worry that AI will not only take our jobs but affect the mental development of generations to come.
I’m depressed and down not just because of that, but because I’ve seen this all before and human beings seemed determined to repeat the mistakes of the past. Their eye is on the profits, the prestige and the fame that will come from deploying this untested technology. And I’m heartsick by the irresponsibility.
Seen it all before, you ask? What do you even mean?
Social media! Today, the ramifications of algorithm-influenced communications is apparent. Data harvesting, democracy collapsing, the increase of misinformation, and the rise of extreme views. And most of all … so many of us are finding our brains changed because of social media. Many of us have lost the ability to focus or even be bored!
What will AI technology, deployed carelessly, do to society? Time will only tell, but let me assure you, society will feel its effects whether we like it or not.
My theory — there there will come a time when creatives like me will retreat further and further away from the commercial web into ecosystems that shield themselves from corporate influence and data miners, until all there is left are AI bots talking to AI bots. The Fediverse is a sign. May it expand and thrive in the future.
This post by KE Garland, and the comments that follow it, is a good, if sobering read.
* Not all are, of course. Some are raising the alarm. Not that anyone in the C-suites is listening, really.
Recently, I used Lensa to generate some artificial intelligence (AI) photos. I’d seen a couple of celebrities do it and thought why not?
So, I uploaded 15 photos, and two hours later these appeared.
They’re beautiful, right? I was amazed. It was mystifying to see how the app captured my spirit. How these photos look is how I feel on the inside. I perceive myself as a powerful being who can do anything to which I set my mind, and these computer-generated images illustrated it.
That’s scary.
I was so amazed with these photos that I almost cancelled my photoshoot. Why do I need to pay someone hundreds of dollars if AI can create a perfect looking me? I wondered. Don’t worry. I didn’t cancel. But I did consider it.
“These are stunning,” a blogger friend commented after seeing this set in my IG stories. “Did you have someone commission…
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Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.
Some interesting quotes from the article: “The current way we do AI puts a lot of burden on the designers to understand what the consequences of the incentives they give their systems are,” said Hadfield-Menell. “And one of the things we’re learning is that a lot of engineers have made mistakes.” A major aspect of …
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