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Discussion on: We are entering a new age: The creation age

 
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GrahamTheDev

First, with any artist whose work has been used to train AI, I am with you, and I have no doubt at some point there will be some large legal case or lawsuit and we will answer what is considered "fair use". I am hoping some precedence is set at some point that allows for a new type of licensing and compensation for artists whose work trains AI.

But you said something interesting there I would like to touch on: "I'm 100% original." and "I am not an algorithm".

This is not entirely true. We are a product of "prior computation". The whole of humanity advances in all fields because we build on the work of others before us.

Our art style is inspired by multiple pieces of art we have seen in life, our abilities and our passions. The words I write here are essentially a very complex algorithm that my brain is processing based on grammatical rules, social context, my experiences in the world etc.

We are algorithms, we are a product of the input of others. The difference is we have concepts of morality, spirituality, soul etc.

With all that being said, I tend very much to agree "it seems immoral to allow them to perpetuate unchecked like this", we need to, as a race and a global society, define what compromises we are and are not willing to make in this new age. 💗

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Matt Ellen

Calling life a "computation" is a broken analogy that I no longer get on board with. It's like saying we do differential calculus when catching a ball. I can't honestly say they way human culture has evolved with me along with it is comparable to computing the weights for an ANN.

We can agree to differ on that. We agree on what's important ❤