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Heather Schmitt's avatar

"AI is the guy at the party who sounds clever as he repeats phrases he read online without synthesizing the information in the slightest."

PREACH, my friend.

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Leila's avatar

I think there are uses for AI--but they stop when the users are trying to make money off other people's work that was used to train the algorithm. For example, as a writer with aphantasia, I find it really helpful to use AI to generate reference pictures of my characters so I can turn them into a wallpaper to put on my phone while I'm drafting. But now that I'm marketing a book, I've hired an artist to create art of those characters, because I'm not going to use what basically amounts to stolen work to try to get other people to buy my books. I also think of...I think it was the Into the SpiderVerse team that trained an in-house AI model *with ONLY their own work* to help streamline their animation process--to me, that's similar to working on a communications team and writing boilerplate for things like a "contact us" paragraph or a signature block, etc.

But in terms of using other people's creativity, taken without their permission, to churn out knockoffs and then profit? Nope, nope, nope.

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