Artificial Intelligence
UNO Magazine: AI and the Future of Creativity
As a twenty-five-year-old who graduated college and moved to Brooklyn during the pandemic, I am no stranger to panicking about the future. However, it’s one thing to worry about finding a job and another thing to worry if your job will even exist in a few years. While androids dream of electric sheep, I have nightmares about artificial intelligence replacing me. So when the editorial team reached out about this cover, a proposed experiment with DALL-E, I figured it was time to face my fears.
DALL-E is an artificial intelligence model from the AI research and deployment company OpenAI, that can generate visuals from text prompts. What if I asked DALL-E to come up with what it thought should be on the cover and I could recreate it as a proper illustration? It came up with fairly generic options, even when prompted with topics that would be covered in stories inside. What if I came up with illustration concepts and asked DALL-E to bring them to life? My favorite concept for this approach was a sad robot artist slumped over a desk, art supplies and an ashtray at hand. But this felt too on the nose.
Read more: https://www.unomaha.edu/news/features/uno-magazine/spring-2023/ai-and-the-future-of-creativity.php
The creative industries are fighting back against UK government proposals to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission.
The latest protest is a silent album co-written by more than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, and follows a statement signed by 48,000 creatives including Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus in which they warned of a “major, unjust threat” to artists’ livelihoods.
Artificial Intelligence
Kate Bush, New Order, & Damon Albarn Among 1,000 UK Artists Protesting Government’s AI Stance With A Silent Album
Last week, the UK government proposed a new policy that would allow tech companies to use copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence algorithms. Under the proposal, artists and companies could opt out of having their material used for AI, but it would otherwise give the companies unfettered access to people’s creative work without having to license anything. The proposal has incited widespread anger in the UK’s arts communities, and now a team of 1,000 British musicians has released a silent protest album called Is This What We Want?
Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.
In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made by ministers on Tuesday that would allow companies such as Open AI, Google and Meta to train their AI systems on published works unless their owners actively opt out.
