The WGA is encouraging creators whose work was used to train AI to reach out to the Copyright Office. This is what I sent.* *this version has a lot fewer typos and more clarity than what I actually sent this morning when I first woke up What are your thoughts on AI?
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.
No one, especially AI, could’ve written a more eloquent and clever response! You are the writer’s champion! I’m over here cheering from my couch, “Go Maggie! Let ‘em have it!” Seriously though, this is the best response. Hope it wakes them up!
Extremely dangerous in SO many ways. They are trying to take away what makes your brain and how it work, theirs. Remember Jules Vern? Twenty thousand leagues under the sea? 1870? That is now our reality. We can do this easily. It was science fiction. Then we have the movie, Exterminator with weird robots and other movies in this ilk. Is that going to be our future? Yes, AI is a very large double edged sword and sadly, I do not trust the human race with this. Going to get a lot worse Maggie. Not sure how to slow it down let alone stop it in this political atmosphere.
I HATE all forms of AI. I've been getting queries from writers in other countries, letting me know they are experts at utilizing AI in their writing and they would like to work for me. (I'm a #1 New York Times Bestselling Ghostwriter!) I've responded and told them no, we professionals will NOT use the soul-sucking demon called AI in our works.
"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.
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.
My opinion on AI is the same; my first and most prevailing thought is IT'S NOT FAIR.
Simple and poignant and dead on!
As always Maggie, very well written!
No one, especially AI, could’ve written a more eloquent and clever response! You are the writer’s champion! I’m over here cheering from my couch, “Go Maggie! Let ‘em have it!” Seriously though, this is the best response. Hope it wakes them up!
Extremely dangerous in SO many ways. They are trying to take away what makes your brain and how it work, theirs. Remember Jules Vern? Twenty thousand leagues under the sea? 1870? That is now our reality. We can do this easily. It was science fiction. Then we have the movie, Exterminator with weird robots and other movies in this ilk. Is that going to be our future? Yes, AI is a very large double edged sword and sadly, I do not trust the human race with this. Going to get a lot worse Maggie. Not sure how to slow it down let alone stop it in this political atmosphere.
Not fair. Possibly dangerous in ways we haven’t even thought of yet.
I HATE all forms of AI. I've been getting queries from writers in other countries, letting me know they are experts at utilizing AI in their writing and they would like to work for me. (I'm a #1 New York Times Bestselling Ghostwriter!) I've responded and told them no, we professionals will NOT use the soul-sucking demon called AI in our works.
At the first sign that something is AI, I delete it and move on. There is no heart and soul there. If you know, you know.
AI is just another sign of our crumbling culture.
It's been available for such a short time, and already my students (University of Miami) are using it to avoid thinking, feeling, or creating.
I'm not too worried yet. It's not all that hard to spot AI. It has a lifeless texture, lacking humanity. Perhaps that's the ultimate goal?
One side order of The Terminator, comin' right up.