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Birgitte Rasine's avatar

Bravo S Peter Davis! We need more creatives writing about the gen AI impact on our work. And getting those articles out into the world. We need to keep talking about it, and insist on retaining our human right to create, because it is a HUMAN RIGHT. It's a human right that's being taken away not by AI, but by other humans.

Put simply, generative AI taking over the creative fields is really about one human telling another human they are no longer valued—because they weren’t truly valued to begin with. That's what it boils down to. We are the auto-immune disease.

https://themuse.substack.com/p/we-are-an-auto-immune-disease

p.s. A little more context about the Jesus Christ painting at the top of this post... on the left is a 1930 fresco of Christ by Elías García Martínez, titled Ecce Homo and on the right is the result of an 81-year-old woman who had been permitted to try and restore the painting, and of course failed miserably. Kinda like what AI is doing to our human art works.

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Shaggy Snodgrass's avatar

It's also funny in a dark way that these LLMs and dall-es are being used to gobble up the jobs with the least amount of personal profit attached to them, in the present day "entertainment industry". Nobody's further from the next dollar than the writer or musician or artist, after all. In any case, the flood of rock-dumb profiteers trying to use this stuff to crank out low-effort "content" are going to ruin it soon, as their models begin to poison each other's datasets, either accidentally or on purpose.

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