Seeing this when already feeling completely hopeless about the world. I mean I know intellectually that tech bros control and own everything and everyone but seeing it in print in the New Yorker is a kick in the stomach.

Clearly someone paid someone else a lot of money to continue normalizing the theft of intellectual property and devaluation of creative human labor.

Repeat after me, THIS IS NOT NORMAL!

“If the creation of fiction is a layered endeavor—if premise, plot, style, and so on are to some extent separable—then must all the layers be made by the same individual?”

Joshua, the key word here is individual! As in human. Is he seriously comparing human ghost writers to using AI?

Not to mention the same fucking argument of how AI is just another tool we have to learn how to use. Generative AI is not excel, it’s not Adobe, those are algorithmic intelligence. You can’t conflate artists using excel for research or taxes with writing a novel using generative AI, that is absurd.

This article conflates so much. Okay, sure, AI is just a tool that people have to learn how to use, but what does that have to do with fucking art! People make art, period.

And, generative AI is trained on stolen creative property.

When will this AI embezzlement bubble burst!