Cory Doctorow on AI

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Spicy autocomplete absolutely can’t replace journalists.

— Cory Doctorow on AI

There’s something very deep in our response to righteous anger. Spicy autocomplete. Righteous anger, followed by italic uncertainty. Dehumanizing the AI so that we’re ready for eradication. At the same time, AI is already replacing human content creators – journalists, bloggers, illustrators, troll farms, SEO experts, photographers, data labelers, etc.

Generative AI is not necessarily terrible. ChatGPT can be forced to link to the source of each of its statements and will become like a search engine. Websites can flag human-created content with a badge of honor. The chatbots could be used where human support was previously impossible, increasing the need for more specialized human support and sales.

The society managed to navigate harmful technological advances in the past. Open Source happened. I don’t quite see how we’ll push back against some of the negative uses of AI like deepfakes but we’ll have to figure it out.

My post from 2023 on content aggregation is still relevant.

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6 thoughts on “Cory Doctorow on AI”

  1. I ve just made ChatGpt write 2 articles for my blog out of one single sentence (just to play and test it) and then i have told the ai in wordpress to generate photos for the articles… if that is just the beginning – it will become horrible in the near future…

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  2. I’m not a fan of AI either. I like to generate images for my blog, though through bing’s Create site. I also use chat GPT to quickly find words for my A-Z blog challenge theme. That’s it. I’d never use it for something else. I think the direction AI is heading is awful.

    AI on your phone, though like Siri for iPhone is a different matter. I like those kinds of services, but I really dislike that AI like chatGPT is all the rage now. I’d like to go back before we had those services. Deepfakes and the like should be illegal as well.

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    1. Yeah, it’s not going away though and for the time being, we’ll have to guess which content is human and which isn’t, and which content is real and which is a hallucination, and so on.

      It’s not that different than before as human-created disinformation is as old as the hills.

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