An artist friend of mine just found that some of her work has been “scraped” for use by AI. She is not thrilled to be an unwilling part of the AI “atelier,” Tim. Artists can’t escape putting their work up on various websites if they want to publicize their art these days, but it is these same sites that are being used as fodder for AI “creativity.” So what about the small scale artists who provide the fodder for these second-order users of AI? Should they just resign themselves to feeding the machine, or should they commit commercial suicide and take their work completely off-line? There’s a technophilia in your recent posts that I’m wondering about. I’m not ready to go post-human quite yet.
An artist friend of mine just found that some of her work has been “scraped” for use by AI. She is not thrilled to be an unwilling part of the AI “atelier,” Tim. Artists can’t escape putting their work up on various websites if they want to publicize their art these days, but it is these same sites that are being used as fodder for AI “creativity.” So what about the small scale artists who provide the fodder for these second-order users of AI? Should they just resign themselves to feeding the machine, or should they commit commercial suicide and take their work completely off-line? There’s a technophilia in your recent posts that I’m wondering about. I’m not ready to go post-human quite yet.