Lay Lines by Carol Lay for December 18, 2023

What a Brave New World we live in…….

She used the AI from a distance, that makes her a teleprompter.

First they came for the artists, but people did not complain because AI made them all ‘artists’.

I’m guessing that “authorship” will be in the eye of the beholder (reader). “Artists” who create collages and sculptures from “found materials” are still considered artists.

Another politician in the making.

When an author is successful, all of the other writers will copy his ideas. AI will copy it in 5 minutes.

And in a computer lab in Urbana there is a voice coming out of a monitor saying " Yes, yes and soon my plan will be complete!"

Have fun sharing your royalties with the actual creators whose copyrighted works were fed into your AI (or A “I”, if you like). Oh, wait, you’ll never have any royalties, since all you generated was a pile of rubbish.

Do you think she’ll ever read the book that she wrote?

(to find out what happened)

An infinite number of distinct programs and an infinite number of printers…

I’ve read a couple of AI-created stories. Well, tried to read them. They’re dreadful. We’re a long, long way from Chat-GPT replacing authors. You can’t expect to put in something like, for example, “Write a novel about a couple falling in love in New Hampshire during Christmas” and get anything coherent, much less entertaining.

Yes, AI can make suggestions in specific areas. Some of these are good. Others are bad. It takes a human to know the difference.

Who needs A.I.? I’ll stick to my wild and wacky imagination to write my stories, thank you very much.

The fine arts have a new branch; the fake arts.

Since that AI was was almost certainly trained on that author’s writing (along with thousands of others’ who were not compensated for their work) she should present the wannabe with a bill. Interesting how the wannabe thinks the actual writer is at fault.

Kinda depressing.