I do know some disabled folks who use AI image generators as assistive technology, so that's one plus in the pro-AI column.
Also, I don't really know that we know how human visual intelligence works well enough to say whether or not it's at all similar in nature to image-generation AI. We don't have artificial general intelligence yet, certainly, and that's probably a good thing. But the fact that we know how to create even a limited LLM or image generator is already the stuff of sci-fi, and we don't know enough about ourselves or have a unified theory of what a mind is to be making any hard rules about it yet. And unfortunately, this is one of those fields where we're going to have to run the experiments first and back-figure the rules later.
I don't think banning AI content is going to be much of a help to the artists the AI was trained on, either, since you can copyright images but not styles. As long as the image is not an exact reproduction, that's fair use just like it would be for a human person who made tribute art in any given style, a la the Andy Warhol soup cans.
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Date: 2023-06-20 09:53 pm (UTC)Also, I don't really know that we know how human visual intelligence works well enough to say whether or not it's at all similar in nature to image-generation AI. We don't have artificial general intelligence yet, certainly, and that's probably a good thing. But the fact that we know how to create even a limited LLM or image generator is already the stuff of sci-fi, and we don't know enough about ourselves or have a unified theory of what a mind is to be making any hard rules about it yet. And unfortunately, this is one of those fields where we're going to have to run the experiments first and back-figure the rules later.
I don't think banning AI content is going to be much of a help to the artists the AI was trained on, either, since you can copyright images but not styles. As long as the image is not an exact reproduction, that's fair use just like it would be for a human person who made tribute art in any given style, a la the Andy Warhol soup cans.