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Re: The Computer Is Hungry
Dec. 13th, 2022 08:03 ami don’t know what else to say except that AI art is no longer simply a source of creativity or a wonder of human creation
https://rainboq.tumblr.com/post/703360565640298496/weve-spent-the-past-20-30-years-enjoying-a-brief
There is nothing benevolent or celebratory in this, it is purely about theft and exploitation. It’s about violating the copyright of artists in order to churn out content that’s Good Enough to suit the needs of capitalists. Do you think that the publishing industry will continue to pay authors for their works if they can just hand an algorithm a prompt and get a completed work in a handful of minutes or hours, and then pay someone to edit it into something coherent (if they even need to)?
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Also... I have some bad news for the OP about algorithms being used to generate written "works" lmfao. This has been going on since at least 2017, and it's one of the reasons why you can't find anything on Google or Amazon anymore. It's wild to see special-issue magazines sold for $20 at CVS that are all stock photos accompanied by text written by a single "author," and I dare anyone to actually read a page of the Disney-branded early reader novels that they sell at stores like Walmart and Target. I've started to see local news sites publish articles generated by an algorithmic template as well, and don't get me started about machine translation. Honestly I don't think anyone is even being paid to edit AI-generated text these days.
https://rainboq.tumblr.com/post/703360565640298496/weve-spent-the-past-20-30-years-enjoying-a-brief
There is nothing benevolent or celebratory in this, it is purely about theft and exploitation. It’s about violating the copyright of artists in order to churn out content that’s Good Enough to suit the needs of capitalists. Do you think that the publishing industry will continue to pay authors for their works if they can just hand an algorithm a prompt and get a completed work in a handful of minutes or hours, and then pay someone to edit it into something coherent (if they even need to)?
( Read more... )
Also... I have some bad news for the OP about algorithms being used to generate written "works" lmfao. This has been going on since at least 2017, and it's one of the reasons why you can't find anything on Google or Amazon anymore. It's wild to see special-issue magazines sold for $20 at CVS that are all stock photos accompanied by text written by a single "author," and I dare anyone to actually read a page of the Disney-branded early reader novels that they sell at stores like Walmart and Target. I've started to see local news sites publish articles generated by an algorithmic template as well, and don't get me started about machine translation. Honestly I don't think anyone is even being paid to edit AI-generated text these days.
