AI vs. HI DEP BOOK PROJECT 2024
Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence in Art and Creative Writing
What does it mean when AI is added to the mix? DEP Book Project AI vs. HI
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ART
Artists work hard to create something that they like, and hopefully, someone else might like their work enough to buy it one day. I enjoy art and creativity created by humans. I create art myself. I also tried and enjoyed watching the creativity for text-to-art on Canva and seeing others create magical images on different AI art platforms.
The images are imperfect, and some AI art is breathtakingly beautiful. Looking at these images, I can see which was created by a human and which one was created by AI. I like images created by Warren Brown for his comics and poetry.
I enjoyed creating a handful of these text-to-art images myself. It is very interesting to write down a few words from my poetry, for example, and generate an image. I could imagine using all my art and photography to enter a text and see what comes up. I wish this option would be available. I started some research and read some articles by other writers, including Maryan Pelland OnText.com and Gabriel Piemonte, talking about the artists that are now getting shortcutted because of AI images.
In my research, I found there are artists who had worked very hard on their portfolios, creating images like dragons for example by Greg Rutkowski, only to find that their work was copied and their name was even added to the image even if they did not create the image. This story was reported in multiple news outlets, including the New York Times article written by Kashmir Hill in February 2023.
According to the MIT Technological Review Article (2022), written by Melissa Heikkilä, the images are taken by open-source AI programs from the internet without the artist's knowledge or permission and with no money or credit given to the original artist. Other artists, including Karla Ortiz and Steven Henderson, found their work used without their permission.
A website called Have I Been Trained was launched in 2022 to help artists find out if their work is among those being taken. Platforms that use artist images without permission include and are not limited to Mid Journey, Stable Diffusion, through Stability AI is Dream Studio, LAION-5B, and the viral app LensaAI.
New technology beyond watermarks like Glaze has been developed to block and alter images from being copied by AI technology from the artist’s website or any other online platform. Glaze scrambles the image in a way that AI is not able to recognize it. “Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry.”
Reading information about how AI-generated programs stole artist’s work I am standing by artists and will not use AI-generated images in my articles and books from now on. Although it is fun, the images were taken from people who worked very hard and created amazing images. I hope that the damage can be stopped and the artists who were hurt can still get jobs and credit for their work in the future.
Where do you stand on AI-generated images?
WRITING
Writing to me is a flowing art on a canvas. When I start, I have a hard time stopping. I can write all the time. Ideas are flowing through my brain, like rain catching the river to get a ride into our oceans. I love to write. I also believe that writers need to get credit for their work, their thoughts, and their ideas.
As a writer, I do not want to be replaced by artificial intelligence. I do not want my work to be stolen by some AI machine who wants to use my ideas and words without my consent. I think that is a very unjust, unlawful, and rude thing to do.
Throughout my nursing education and my Ph.D., it was deeply embedded in me how important it is to give credit to the people who spent their time doing research and writing articles. I cannot even imagine taking someone else’s work and not giving them credit for it.
We humans can create so many beautiful things. Writing is magic. While I can make a choice and have made some choices to make some of my writing open source and available to the public, I never agreed for my work to be stolen by AI. I would be fine with AI using my work for non-profit ideas if I got credit for it. Without asking, using someone's work is neither ethical nor legal.
I stand with the human writers fighting for their work to be preserved, credited, and compensated according to their wishes. Many writers, including myself, work very hard—many long hours of writing, editing, and formatting—for little or no compensation. Writers who use AI are taking away from writers who do their research and use their creativity to write their stories.
I am grateful to be part of this movement to support writers.
Where do you stand?
I am not against AI as a concept, as long as it is not stealing our work and is used responsibly. I don't think AI will ever replace humanity, yet it can create difficulties for humans that could be prevented and changed with appropriate planning and safeguards.
Thank you for listening.
COURT CASES
https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/pdf/00201/1-1-stable-diffusion-complaint.pdf
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Gabriella
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References
New York Times (2023) Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/technology/ai-art-generator-lensa-stable-diffusion.html
MIT Review (2022) Retrieved from https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/16/1059598/this-artist-is-dominating-ai-generated-art-and-hes-not-happy-about-it/
Have I been trained retrieved from https://haveibeentrained.com/
Art News (2022) Retrieved from https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/signatures-lensa-ai-portraits-1234649633/
Glaze Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models (2023) Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222
Glaze (2023) Retrieved from https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html
Recommend reading a story from Marsha Adams about why she is not using AI images in her work as a writer.
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May your day be joyful. GK
