posted May 15, 2024 #
An excellent read from Cory Doctorow on
AI "art" and uncanniness. The art is in quotes because Doctorow does not believe AI creations qualify as art. I'm disagree with that sentiment but that's not the point of the article! It discusses the misunderstood legalities of training data, the threats to creative workers that AI poses and what protections could be put in place to prevent those threats. This excerpt appears near the summation but it bears repeating:
I think today's AI art is bad, and I think tomorrow's AI art will probably be bad, but even if you disagree (with either proposition), I hope you'll agree that we should be focused on making sure art is legal to make and that artists get paid for it.
— Cory Doctorow
It's going to be a slow climb to reaching that goal. In all likelihood it's also going to be very sloppy one too - technology moves a helluva lot faster than changes to law. I'm optimistic we can keep heading in the right direction.
