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Author
Peter Biles
Date
November 29, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, ai plagiarism, fake author, journalism, sports illustrated, Writing}

Sports Illustrated Used AI-Generated Authors

_{Human authors for a human audience, please.} _{Peter Biles

November 29, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

The big-time sports magazine Sports Illustrated allegedly used AI “authors” to generate multiple online articles. Maggie Harrison of Futurism wrote recently that when she and her team reached out to the magazine for comment, they removed all the AI-generated stuff from the site. However, they couldn’t do so before several screenshots were taken that confirmed the suspicion. A massive and influential publication was making up a portion of its own writers. Harrison reports, The AI content marks a staggering fall from grace for Sports Illustrated, which in past decades won numerous National Magazine Awards for its sports journalism and published work by literary giants ranging from William Faulkner to John Updike. But now that it’s under the management of The Arena Read More ›

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Author
Russ White
Date
November 5, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, art, Arts and Culture, boring, create, Creativity, Limits, Writing}

Creativity Takes Discipline. AI Offers an Easy, but Boring, Way Out

_{Because creativity requires work, AI systems will stunt human creativity over time.} _{Russ White

November 5, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Consider the following scenarios and compare: Leilani considered the images on the screen … choose five, copy them, and paste them from the AI generator to the AI evaluator. Two to choose from … creative juices flowing, Leilani chose one and started working on the type. Which typeface would represent the playful air the client was looking for? Back to the AI selector to describe each face. All of them were playful, but one was fun, too — that’s the right match! After a few more minutes of creative release, Leilani leaned back to consider the result. Paste a copy of the final to her local friend’s group and wait a minute … the first response was: “Wow! You’re as Read More ›

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Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
October 20, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI copyright lawsuit, Artificial Intelligence, Arts and Culture, ChatGPT, Copyright, Creative Writing, Creativity, Lawsuit, Legal, Writing}

Lawsuit Champions Human Creativity Over AI Mimicry

_{Copyright laws can protect against sophisticated plagiarism.} _{Richard W. Stevens

October 20, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Is it possible to violate the copyright on a written work without actually copying the exact words in it? Yes. And that fact points up how ChatGPT can trample human authors’ rights to their creative work products. The previous article, Authors Guild Sues OpenAI for Unlawful Copying of Creative Works, described the lawsuit filed by The Authors Guild and many individual writers against OpenAI (and related defendants) for having taught ChatGPT how to copy the writers’ articles and books and then to generate “derivative works.” The lawsuit first charges that OpenAI made unauthorized copies of billions of words of text, including likely thousands of entire books and articles, to use as training materials for ChatGPT. Making such copies would Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
August 13, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
art, C.S. Lewis, ChatGPT, Christina Bieber Lake, Consciousness, Creativity, fiction, Non-Computable You (book), OpenAI, Peter Biles, Plato, Rhetoric, Robert J. Marks, Robin Phillips, Salvo, Sophists, Wheaton College, Writing}

Literature and Personal Consciousness: Why AI Can’t Speak to You

_{AI can never intend meaning like a human author can} _{Peter Biles

August 13, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

One of the biggest contentions in the current debate over OpenAI’s new Large Language Model (LLM) ChatGPT is its purported ability to create a story, to speak and communicate narrative like a human storyteller. If you ask ChatGPT to write an Edgar Allen Poe-esque story, it will generate something spooky, gothic, and darkly poetic. Ask it to write a Shakespearean sonnet, and out comes a fourteen-lined poem about nature and romance. Need a horror thriller like The Shining or It by Stephen King? You got it. For all its scary impressiveness, and the guarantee that the technology will only get better, the chatbot extraordinaire fails and will always fail to tell a story. In fact, it can’t be expected to generate meaningful art and literature Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
June 30, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, critical thinking, Google, OpenAI, Satire, Technology, The Onion, Writing}

AI Can Do It All So You Don’t Have To

_{Sometimes satire says it best} _{News

June 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Satire is often best at uncovering uncomfortable truths. Much of the talk around AI progress celebrates its ability to make certain tasks way easier, such as writing essays, programming computer code, or firing your employees. While that is certainly true, the concern remains that if we depend on AI like this for long enough we might just forget how to put two and two together and write a sentence over ten words long. That’s probably cynical, but the principle is there – depending on technology to perform mental tasks will lessen the ability to independently perform those same mental tasks. The popular satire site The Onion published a paragraph about a hypothetical man who is delighted about AI because it Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
May 25, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, Alissa Wilkinson, film, Futurism, Movies and TV, NPR, Strike, Unions, Vox, Writers Guild of America, Writing}

Hollywood Writers vs. AI

_{The Writers Guild of America doesn't want AI stealing their jobs} _{Peter Biles

May 25, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

I smell something rotten in the heart of Hollywood. So do a lot of screenwriters, actors, and directors. And you probably already have seen the headlines about the Writers Guild of America (WGA) going on strike, largely due to Hollywood studios’ apparent openness to using AI to generate scripts. It feels inevitable looking back, with the introduction and consequent explosion of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that we would quickly arrive at a place where people like screenwriters are demanding job security. New AI systems have challenged a lot of different sectors, from visual art to journalism, but right now, the WGA strike is at the forefront of the conversation and continues to rage. Maggie Harrison of Futurism reports that a good many Read More ›

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
May 15, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Education

Tagged
academia, Academic writing, AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Gary Smith, Journals, Large Language Models (LLMs), science, Writing}

The Death of Peer Review?

_{Science is built on useful research and thoroughly vetted peer review} _{Gary Smith

May 15, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Education}

Two years ago, I wrote about how peer review has become an example of Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Once scientific accomplishments came to be gauged by the publication of peer-reviewed research papers, peer review ceased to be a good measure of scientific accomplishments. The situation has not improved. One consequence of the pressure to publish is the temptation researchers have to p-hack or HARK. P-hacking occurs when a researcher tortures the data in order to support a desired conclusion. For example, a researcher might look at subsets of the data, discard inconvenient data, or try different model specifications until the desired results are obtained and deemed statistically significant—and therefore Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
March 21, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Generator, GPT-3, Large Language Models (LLMs), Markov chain and AI art, Reading, Writing}

AI vs. Human Intentionality

_{If ChatGPT were trained over and over on its own output, it would eventually turn to gibberish} _{Eric Holloway

March 21, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

We can do a simple experiment that demonstrates the difference between AI and human intentionality. ChatGPT and the like are a sophisticated form of a mathematical model known as a Markov chain. A Markov chain is based on the Markov assumption that the future is entirely a product of the recent past. In other words, if we know the recent past, then nothing else we learn about the more distant past will improve our ability to predict the future. In ChatGPT terms, this means ChatGPT is based on the assumption that everything we need to know to predict future words is contained within a limited window of previously seen words. ChatGPT’s window was 3,000 words, and I believe the newest version has Read More ›

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
March 6, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, chatbots, ChatGPT, Communication, Consciousness, education, Gary Smith, Gen-Z, LLMs, Students, Writing}

Learning to Communicate

_{Why writing skills are so important, especially in today's artificial world} _{Gary Smith

March 6, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Educators have been shaken by fears that students will use ChatGTP and other large language models (LLMs) to answer questions and write essays. LLMs are indeed astonishing good at finding facts and generating coherent essays — although the alleged facts are sometimes false and the essays are sometimes tedious BS supported by fake references. I am more optimistic than most. I am hopeful that LLMs will be a catalyst for a widespread discussion of our educational goals. What might students learn in schools that will be useful long after they graduate? There are many worthy goals, but critical thinking and communication skills should be high on any list. I’ve written elsewhere about how critical thinking abilities are important for students Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
February 22, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, fiction, GPT-3, Journal, OpenAI, Science fiction, Writing}

Separating Fact from Fiction?

_{This sci-fi journal is being flooded with A.I. generated submissions} _{News

February 22, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

The major science fiction/fantasy magazine Clarkesworld recently announced that it will be closing submissions for the foreseeable future. Why? A.I. generated stories. The magazine has long been the recipient of open submissions and is interested in publishing new voices, but because of an influx of poor A.I. written works, is now overwhelmed. Editor Neil Clarke wrote on Twitter, “Submissions are currently closed. It shouldn’t be hard to guess why.” Clarke said the closure wouldn’t be definite, but also noted with some severity that this will be an ongoing problem and that there’s no evident solution in sight at the moment. He continued in the Twitter thread: We have some ideas for minimizing it, but the problem isn’t going away. Detectors Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
February 8, 2023

Categorized
Language

Tagged
Amusing Ourselves to Death, ChatGPT, Distraction, Facebook, internet, Kit Wilson, Language, Neil Postman, Netflix, Novel, social media, The New Atlantis, TikTok, War and Peace, Word, Writing}

Awash in a Sea of Digital Information

_{In the age of infinite online text, maybe less is more} _{Peter Biles

February 8, 2023

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Language}

Some days after I close my laptop, I’d like to pick up a novel and read or work on a short story project, but then feel like I just need to empty my mind of all the snippets and clips of textual information I’ve consumed that day. News blurbs, thought pieces, emails, provocative tweets, more emails, more news blurbs… Frequently I’ll turn to a TV show or a social media binge in place of the novel. My brain can’t take any more text. It’s burnt out. It’s no secret contemporary Americans live in a sea of images and videos. YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook all vie for human attention through images and color schemes designed to catch the distracted eye. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
January 16, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Education

Tagged
academia, AI, ChatGPT, Dr. Anthony Bradley, education, institutions, Oral Culture, Plato, Socrates, The King's College, Universities, Writing}

What Students Lose by Embracing Easy Tech Like ChatGPT

_{AI systems not only pose a problem for teachers, but will compromise intellectual excellence and moral virtue} _{Peter Biles

January 16, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Education}

We’ve heard a lot about ChatGPT and its wonders and gaping pitfalls. Among the dangers it poses is academic cheating and corner-cutting. It’s no secret that the new bot makes Comp 1 a whole lot easier for a typical incoming freshman. Some universities and schools are banning the AI system outright. Teachers wonder how they will be able to discern plagiarism. Other voices chide the alarmists and call for students and teachers to use ChatGPT as a classroom aid. But one area that has gone a bit underdiscussed in the conversation is ethics. Dr. Anthony Bradley of The King’s College tweeted this a few days ago, Students are writing papers using AI. Colleges are scrambling to combat it. We Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
January 13, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, art, chatbots, ChatGPT, Creativity, Creativity and AI writing tools, journalism, Literature, Spectator, Wall Street Journal, Writing}

Will ChatGPT Replace Human Writers?

_{Some people think so. But maybe they’re mistaken about the purpose and nature of language} _{Peter Biles

January 13, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

In the wake of the notorious ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI, many are asking, “What’s going to happen to people who make their living as writers?” We’re talking journalists, novelists, academics, etcetera. It’s a valid question given the dexterity of the new technology. OpenAI’s DALL-E image generator poses the same question to visual artists. If a machine can generate a skillfully crafted piece of text or an image, the need for human writers and artists turns opaque. That is if we actually think artificial and natural intelligence are comparable competitors. Cynics are claiming a doomsday for writers. Sean Thomas of the Spectator thinks doomsday is upon us. He wrote in a January 10th article, I’ve done writing of all kinds Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
January 4, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, chatbots, ChatGPT, Creativity, education, essay, higher education, human brain, mind, professor, Technology, Wall Street Journal, Writing}

Students Depend on ChatGPT for Final Exams

_{The new bot will only get better from here, but it won’t help students become better thinkers} _{Peter Biles

January 4, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new artificial intelligence chatbot, has made headlines for over a month now, and for good reason. It’s an advanced bot designed to problem solve. It can “converse” with people on a range of topics. A problem for us to solve now is how to deal with ChatGPT’s invasion into the sphere of education. Students report using ChatGPT on final exams and papers according to a recent write-up from The College Fix. One College of Staten Island student used the bot on both final exams and “got As on both.” He commented that “half the kids in my class used it.” The student also noted that he used the chatbot to complete a multiple-choice exam, on which he got Read More ›

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Author
Brendan Dixon
Date
June 5, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Work

Tagged
hype, Robotic writing, Writing}

Sorry, Wired: That “Crafty Robot” Doesn’t Write in Languages It’s Never Seen

_{The artificial intelligence industry is overwhelmed with title inflation and feat hype} _{Brendan Dixon

June 5, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Work}

Headline hype obscures the researchers’ remarkable accomplishments while luring the unsuspecting to believe AI is more than it is and does more than it does. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 23, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
1984, Björn W. Schuller, George Orwell, novels, Ross GOodwin, Writing}

Could AI write novels?

_{George Orwell thought so, as long as no thinking was involved} _{Denyse O'Leary

October 23, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Serious literature will always be written, to borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, in “blood, toil, tears and sweat” because imaging the human condition accurately is part of its nature. And if the writer lives in an unfree society, serious literature will also be written in fear. Read More ›