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Artists - don't fear AI. Instead, be prolific. Build community.
“My daughter refuses to put anything into AI as she’s concerned that her creative work is then owned and shared by AI. I would love your thoughts on this! Are you concerned that if you enter all the information for a course, it can then be shared by AI?”
(For context — a big part of my business is selling my courses. When creating courses I often put the material into Ai for feedback and ideas.)
My response:
I’m very liberal with copyrights. In fact, all my content is uncopyrighted — see Ge…
The most urgent concern re: Ai development (and what to do about it)
I don’t think you and I need to worry about the world-destruction potential of Ai.
Why?
Because those of us reading this (who don't work in the Ai field or in politics) have almost no little influence over that possibility. It’s not a good use of our time or energy to worry or advocate for that stuff.
What about Ai’s potential to manipulate people for commercial or political gain? There will be Ai systems built to combat those manipulations and personal Ai systems to help us keep a mor…
Should we pause AI development?
The Open Letter to “Pause Giant AI Experiments” is making the rounds.
It has many good points. But the called-for solution is deeply flawed and cynical.
- The two leading AI companies are being targeted in this letter: OpenAI and Midjourney. It looks to be a smart strategic move by competitors (in the US and abroad) to slow down their development so they can catch up. Important signatories missing are the CEOs of OpenAI and Midjourney... yet all their major competitors signed it 🧐
- Eve…