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The Background
As my readers already know, I have a… mixed relationship with artificial intelligence, also known as AI. On the one hand, as I explained back in Episode #82, AI has now given the world a set of really cool tools. As of this episode, there are now AI tools to help you create writing, music, images, video, and more.
Super neat stuff.
On the other hand, as I explained back in Episode #95, there are all manner of legal and philosophical questions that arise when using AI:
- Did the AI tool compensate the artists from whose work it was trained?
- Does the platform protect its current users?
- Is it easier for people to use this AI tool for good or evil?
These aren’t always easy questions to answer. Therefore, at least for the moment, I’ve decided on two, core truths.
First, most AI tools are like hammers: you can use them to build amazing things or to cause amazing damage. We shouldn’t prohibit the tool because the human using it has shitty morals or motives.
Second, lawsuits are inevitable. As AI becomes more available for people to use as a service — did I mention that Apple just embedded AI into their new iOS release?!? — lawsuits will come. They’ll be filed on behalf of those creators and artists whose work was ingested to help create and then train our most popular AI tools. Sara Silverman’s was one of the most notable, but there are and will be others.
So… what now?
Centralize Everything
As of this episode, I’ve tried ChatGPT, Dalle-3, Stable Diffusion, Lex, Lensa, MidJourney and about a dozen other AI platforms. The results were a mix of shockingly amazing and just plain awful.
About what I’d expected.
But what I didn’t expect was that I’d actually start to find uses for some of these platforms. Let me explain…
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