DrWatson · 70-79, M
Even worse. Someone can give AI a prompt like "write a novel about a family reunion, in the style of Stephen King."
A publisher could publish it, make up a phony author name, and push it with reviews like "reminiscent of Stephen King."
There is an interesting lawsuit I read about. I do not know its status at the moment. But visual artists were suing ChatGPT, because all of the AI-generated art is created by algorithms that scan the internet for real art by real artists, but those artists do not get compensated for their contribution to the final product. If that suit is successful, perhaps authors will do the same.
A publisher could publish it, make up a phony author name, and push it with reviews like "reminiscent of Stephen King."
There is an interesting lawsuit I read about. I do not know its status at the moment. But visual artists were suing ChatGPT, because all of the AI-generated art is created by algorithms that scan the internet for real art by real artists, but those artists do not get compensated for their contribution to the final product. If that suit is successful, perhaps authors will do the same.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@DrWatson Intellectual Property has always taken a huge beating when the internet gained large volumes of users, and copyright is almost non-existent. It has been a fight that has been raging since the late 1990's - early 2000's.
Corporations who profit off other people's IP without any compensation has been going on since that time. That was when it eas first discovered that others were directly profiting off basically stealing other people's ideas.
As long as Corporations with financial power want to continue using IP with no responsibility, I think that fight will always be there.
But lort help you if you steal *their* IP!
Corporations who profit off other people's IP without any compensation has been going on since that time. That was when it eas first discovered that others were directly profiting off basically stealing other people's ideas.
As long as Corporations with financial power want to continue using IP with no responsibility, I think that fight will always be there.
But lort help you if you steal *their* IP!
HoeBag · 46-50, F
@DrWatson Artists, musicians, or whoever can litigate but the companies who steal IP probably figure that settlements will ultimately cost less than trying to compensate the original artists.
I do not know why big celebrities are so concerned anyways, they are loaded. They act like they are broke but we know that is a crock.
I do not know why big celebrities are so concerned anyways, they are loaded. They act like they are broke but we know that is a crock.
I'm a photographer. I appreciate now more than ever I found it as a passion and love, instead of for a career. It was once as it's so emotional for me, photography, and my expressions in photography are abstract in metaphor. But I see now what people love in photography from AI (which can never be photography, because a photograph is a document artistic seen of something that existed in time)... I can now use my photography to find those who remember what art, life and love is.
I have yet to see anything from AI that holds any emotional value
I have yet to see anything from AI that holds any emotional value
HoeBag · 46-50, F
If we do something purely (or at least mostly) for enjoyment, yeah, it is still worth it. We have to do something while we are here.
But now if we are doing something in hopes to be lucrative, it is probably not worth the effort.
A.I. seems to be taking over the arts and other things.
Even when that isn't the case, we work so hard just to see nothing come of it. That or everything we have achieved or earned somehow gets wiped in an instant.
But now if we are doing something in hopes to be lucrative, it is probably not worth the effort.
A.I. seems to be taking over the arts and other things.
Even when that isn't the case, we work so hard just to see nothing come of it. That or everything we have achieved or earned somehow gets wiped in an instant.
Too often I find myself pondering the same. I see seller descriptions on eBay that scream AI authored because the opening sentence is duplicated and there's no substance outside the basics given on the item(s) for sale/auction. It's a lazy method of selling that is, to me, insulting to the potential buyer.
That laziness and lack of human perspective in our reading material are seeping into our consciousness.
That laziness and lack of human perspective in our reading material are seeping into our consciousness.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@onrealityofdreams Creating copy to sell things is hard. I'm the first to say it is difficult to create a header that is going to grab eyes and drag them 10 feet.
So if you are looking for an eye catching headline to get people to at least look at your item, I can forgive AI useage. But if they are using it to describe that item to make it more enticing, yeah. Not only could the AI be off base, it screams of "Here's this 5,000 word diary entry of something remotely related to my recipe that you will have to slog through (with all the pop ups and ads!) before you actually get to see the recipe".
So if you are looking for an eye catching headline to get people to at least look at your item, I can forgive AI useage. But if they are using it to describe that item to make it more enticing, yeah. Not only could the AI be off base, it screams of "Here's this 5,000 word diary entry of something remotely related to my recipe that you will have to slog through (with all the pop ups and ads!) before you actually get to see the recipe".
This applies to writing, visual arts, and music, our AI future is quite depressing
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It doesn't matter if an author never offered books in digital format, an AI company has already digitized printed books to train its models
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/
I've even seen people here on SW, where I'd paste their About Me text (for example) into half a dozen different AI content detection sites, and every site said it was AI-generated prose ... we're coming to a time where no one will ever again be able to believe anything they see or hear as being authentic. Deception is the new normal. Who TF asked for this???
And that's not even broaching the topic of the long-term existential to threat to humanity posed by AI. If Stephen Hawking thought AI could exterminate us, A) I believe him and B) I wonder why the hell every greedy tech bro startup seeking to profit off AI is finding no regulatory impediments or outright bans whatsoever. Then the energy and watef footprint of AI is (or should be) well known by now, making some idiots say we need more nuclear fission power plants to satisfy the booming needs of new data centers (never mind crypto mining businesses who offer noting of value at all to society).
We are such an effed up species, honestly we deserve extinction.
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It doesn't matter if an author never offered books in digital format, an AI company has already digitized printed books to train its models
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/
I've even seen people here on SW, where I'd paste their About Me text (for example) into half a dozen different AI content detection sites, and every site said it was AI-generated prose ... we're coming to a time where no one will ever again be able to believe anything they see or hear as being authentic. Deception is the new normal. Who TF asked for this???
And that's not even broaching the topic of the long-term existential to threat to humanity posed by AI. If Stephen Hawking thought AI could exterminate us, A) I believe him and B) I wonder why the hell every greedy tech bro startup seeking to profit off AI is finding no regulatory impediments or outright bans whatsoever. Then the energy and watef footprint of AI is (or should be) well known by now, making some idiots say we need more nuclear fission power plants to satisfy the booming needs of new data centers (never mind crypto mining businesses who offer noting of value at all to society).
We are such an effed up species, honestly we deserve extinction.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
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FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@JimboSaturn whenever I think of AI, i think of the commercial that is played during some of the podcasts I listen to that is a total advocate for advertising using AI. It finishes the ad with the statement, "Using AI the way it was made for".
That is such an icky ad. AI is just another capitalist tool to make people more endentured to corporations and exploited labor.
I know it is, and I appreciate this ad's complete honesty, but it still makes me feel ill when I hear it.
That is such an icky ad. AI is just another capitalist tool to make people more endentured to corporations and exploited labor.
I know it is, and I appreciate this ad's complete honesty, but it still makes me feel ill when I hear it.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@JimboSaturn Well, social media has already hijacked a lot of people's critical thinking skills and the ability to question information and find info without biases, so a large portion of the population is already primed for something else to do all our thinking.