The article covers a lot of ground, but where he was explaining artists, rights, and copyrights, I couldn't stop thinking that in good part, what artists (and programmers, and a lot of other professions that are threatened by AIs) is more or less the kind of work that AI does.
We are meme machines, we mix, combine, reshuffle or just ensemble different memes and patterns we saw somewhere, mostly System 1 work, and then put a "it's only mine" label to it and proceed to sell that with exclusive rights. We can go further away with AIs, as we can mix things from very different fields, extrapolate trends that are just not there, make System 2 play here, and not go much more farther than that, in the sense that other humans can follow and understand it.
And the lion's share of what is around, those "owned" mixes that everyone else is forbidden to think or express on their own, don't go much further than what a current AI can do. A lot of music, books, and other pieces of "art" are just an algorithm result (performed by humans or not).
There are things with the use of AI that may be wrong or a bad trend at the very least, but don't lose sight of what we essentially are. We can take a step forward, but most of the time we are not so different.
We are meme machines, we mix, combine, reshuffle or just ensemble different memes and patterns we saw somewhere, mostly System 1 work, and then put a "it's only mine" label to it and proceed to sell that with exclusive rights. We can go further away with AIs, as we can mix things from very different fields, extrapolate trends that are just not there, make System 2 play here, and not go much more farther than that, in the sense that other humans can follow and understand it.
And the lion's share of what is around, those "owned" mixes that everyone else is forbidden to think or express on their own, don't go much further than what a current AI can do. A lot of music, books, and other pieces of "art" are just an algorithm result (performed by humans or not).
There are things with the use of AI that may be wrong or a bad trend at the very least, but don't lose sight of what we essentially are. We can take a step forward, but most of the time we are not so different.