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  • πŸ“–Definitions of AI
    • 🦣AI myths
    • πŸ“ƒCritique of AI concept
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  • πŸ—ƒοΈContemporary AI: Case studies
    • πŸŽ₯Case study: Superheroes, cyborgs, and artificial creatures in science fiction narratives
    • πŸ’»Case study: problems with generative technologies
    • 🧲Case study: generative AI and copyright
    • πŸ€–Case study: mistaking CGI for miltech
    • πŸ™‹Case study: renegotiating the social contract
  • 🌐Computer systems as social and semiotic technologies
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    • πŸ€–Anthropomorphism awareness
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  1. Contemporary AI: Case studies

Case study: generative AI and copyright

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AI and art

AI and copyright

Who is the artist and author in generated artwork?

every person who contributed to the billions of creative artifacts that generative AI systems are trained upon. β€” Louis Rosenberg

+ everyone who shared, commented on or upvoted it

Who should be compensated for such artwork?

It’s reasonable to consider a β€œhumanity tax” on generative systems trained on massive datasets of human artifacts. It could be a modest fee on transactions, maybe paid into a central β€œhumanity fund” or distributed to decentralized accounts using blockchain. I know this sounds like a strange idea but think of it this way: If a spaceship full of entrepreneurial aliens showed up on Earth and asked humanity to contribute our collective works to a database so they could generate derivative artifacts for profit, we would likely ask for compensation. β€” Louis Rosenberg

AI and plagiarism

...then I started googling individual sentences. It turns out most of them are near word-for-word reproductions of Wikipedia sentences. If the AI were a student, it would be flunked for plagiarism. β€” Janelle Shane

The referential reality of synthetic content

  • is constructed and determined by a (human) judge comparing their expectations to the outcome (output)

  • if the result meets expectations β€” β€˜whale facts’ are correct, or the opinion piece is satisfactory in style and content β€” the judging editor may state that the text is β€˜about external reality’, and publish it

  • If the result is incorrect, insufficient or inconsistent with the respective possible world (fictional or non-fictional) β€” e.g., the requested whale facts contain statements such as β€˜dolphins also live in the desert’ (Shane 2020) or other statements that are false or nonsensical in relation to the external reality, the judgement may evaluate that the text is β€˜about nothing’.

β€” Viidalepp, Auli. 2022. β€œThe Semiotic Functioning of Synthetic Media.” InformΓ‘ciΓ³s TΓ‘rsadalom 22 (4): 109–18. .

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https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.XXII.2022.4.9
AI Open Letter β€” CAIR
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I used generative AI to create pictures of painting robots, but I'm not the artist β€” humanity isBig Think
Facts about whales - AI WeirdnessCommentShareCommentShareAI Weirdness
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"1960's art of cow getting abducted by UFO in midwest", generated with DALL E, August 2022 , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chen, Min. 2023. β€œArtists and Illustrators Are Suing Three A.I. Art Generators for Scraping and β€˜Collaging’ Their Work Without Consent.” Artnet News (blog). January 24, 2023. .
Rosenberg, Louis. 2022. β€œI Used Generative AI to Create Pictures of Painting Robots, but I’m Not the Artist β€” Humanity Is.” Big Think (blog). September 9, 2022. .
Coles, Cameron. 2023. β€œ11% of Data Employees Paste into ChatGPT Is Confidential.” Cyberhaven (blog). February 28, 2023. .
Shane, Janelle. 2020. β€œFacts about Whales.” AI Weirdness (blog). July 13, 2020. .
Encik Tekateki
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/class-action-lawsuit-ai-generators-deviantart-midjourney-stable-diffusion-2246770
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/generative-ai-pictures-humanity-artist/
https://www.cyberhaven.com/blog/4-2-of-workers-have-pasted-company-data-into-chatgpt/
https://www.aiweirdness.com/facts-about-whales-20-07-13/
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