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Suppose Bob writes an email to Sue, who has no existing business relationship with Bob, asking her to draw a picture of a polar bear wearing a cowboy hat while riding a bicycle. If Sue draws this picture, we all agree that Sue is the creator, and that some arrangement is required to transfer ownership of this picture to Bob. But if Bob types that same email into a generative AI, has he now become the creator of the generated image? If not, then who is the creator?
I Made This
John Siracusa
If you think, however, that the problem of artificial intelligence—and technology under capitalism more generally—is that it has been beholden to the military-industrial complex from the start and serves to concentrate power, a few questions make a good start: How should we develop artificial intelligence, how should it be funded, how should computational resources be distributed, how should various technologies and the means of producing them be owned? Narayanan and Kapoor seem to believe that the main problem is hype. Whether they realize it or not, that’s a form of snake oil, too.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
Performance should be a sacred, screen-free place, at least in terms of what the performers are putting out to the audience (there’s no stopping the myriad of phones aimed at the stage by the audience, nor do I care too much about that). But an iPad on a mic stand is immediately distracting, and builds a barrier between the player and the audience.
The LONG HAUL: To iPad or Not to iPad
Rachel Baiman
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