AI is stealing plain and simple. Apparently much of the scraping of prose comes from piracy sites and therefore from weak or non-existent enforcement of copyright. If we create for nothing, what's the point? More than mere theft, corporate greed for AI is war on our culture.
I'm guest editor for an online mag this coming August and it worries me that I might, accidentally, accept something written by AI. All I've seen coming from that churning pot so far is stiff and bland but that doesn't prove anything. I've also read stuff written by humans that is stiff and bland :) ... Then there's the trap that I can see some writers fall into: it's just to help me polish a section I struggle with - raaah. No, it's not help, it's taking the easy way, the lazy way, and it's a slippery slope.
I wouldn't worry--you can't catch every cheater. But if you do, there should be the equivalent of the Black Book in Vegas for cheaters--lifetime ban. I dunno...
AI is stealing plain and simple. Apparently much of the scraping of prose comes from piracy sites and therefore from weak or non-existent enforcement of copyright. If we create for nothing, what's the point? More than mere theft, corporate greed for AI is war on our culture.
I agree. And whatever the artistic benefits, it's the use AI is put to by thoughtless executives that worries me more.
I'm guest editor for an online mag this coming August and it worries me that I might, accidentally, accept something written by AI. All I've seen coming from that churning pot so far is stiff and bland but that doesn't prove anything. I've also read stuff written by humans that is stiff and bland :) ... Then there's the trap that I can see some writers fall into: it's just to help me polish a section I struggle with - raaah. No, it's not help, it's taking the easy way, the lazy way, and it's a slippery slope.
I wouldn't worry--you can't catch every cheater. But if you do, there should be the equivalent of the Black Book in Vegas for cheaters--lifetime ban. I dunno...
Well said. Good job, human!
Thanks, Warren!
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Thank you for this, Sam. Agree with you completely!
Thanks, Laurie! It's important, I think.