Club PA Newsletter #110
Added 2024-06-24 21:00:05 +0000 UTCI feel like we skipped some really important conversations on the way to Artificial Intelligence stuff. I can think of all kinds of use cases for the technology that aren't weird and are cool, but man. It really seems like we skipped straight to a usurpation of labor with a machine that is, itself, based on stolen labor. This used to be an open question, or at any rate one that people used to discuss - is literally everything that people do and make in the public domain?But now that they're paying people for their stuff, very specific people, a Chosen Few, we can sorta put that to bed. Do YOU give money to people for no reason?!
Mike saw this image on Reddit, and lost it:
I think it can be considered roughly like painting by numbers. It occurs to me that there might be an interesting double entendre there, where the numbers are actually doing the painting in this case, but that's not what this is about! I need to focus. I'm just saying that we wouldn't say that a person who was using paint by numbers was engaging in laudatory behavior exactly. I think it's worth considering that the pipeline of artists we have now is the result of skill acquisition, and that's also where all the art comes from. We might be messing around with something really deep down when we automate things like this. Maybe people felt like this with the widespread adoption of the calculator. Like I said, there's a lot of really cool conversations to have around this and maybe I'm just not in the right places to see it. But it is entirely possible to make a silly comic about it!
Welcome to my coping strategy, I'll be your host,
(CW)TB
Comments
I remember a story about Whistler the artist where he whipped up a doodle for someone asking for a commissioned piece for which he charged a gob of money. The guy sued him because it only took him a short time to make it. The argument was it was the culmination of the time spent on that doodle and the decades of experience that lead up to it. With AI, they're basically taking the collective experience of thousands if not millions of people and generating something for you so you can take credit for it because you can't be bothered to learn to actual do the art yourself. I mean, if you want to go grab a ready to cook meal and pretend it's yours, go for it. Just realize in the end, you're basically a fraud and it'll catch up to you. "Oh, that's amazing, can you draw me something right now?" "Uh, Siri, draw me something."
Grieger
2024-06-24 21:59:59 +0000 UTCThey actually tried the laundry thing. The company got a ton of funding and crashed and burned HARD.
Christopher Lefevre
2024-06-24 21:39:04 +0000 UTCI forget the exact quote, but it was something akin to, “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so I can draw and write…” There’s more to it than that, but hopefully the point comes across all the same
Zack Rhodes
2024-06-24 21:19:41 +0000 UTC
