5th March 2024, 6:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 5th March 2024, 6:22 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
I developed my current opinion on deep learning AI generative content by asking the singular question: Who benefits from this technology? Artists don't, because they go out of work very quickly thanks to this. The public at large don't, because art that basically eats itself promises nothing new under the sun. (Though admittedly Marvel movies have gotten so redundant one could argue we're already there.) The only ones who benefit, presently, from this tech are the corporate executive class. With that in mind, under our present economic system, I'm against the tech just as surely as I'm against corporations being the first to colonize space.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)