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It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It's in our homes and in our pockets, and now artificial intelligence is in our art. The runaway rise of AI generator apps has sparked hot debate around the technology's impact on creative industries. Brittany Luse talks to Karla Ortiz, an artist who's part of a new lawsuit against a group of companies that use AI to generate images. Ortiz gives her take on why it's important to regulate this technology, and why everyone – not just artists – has a stake in the issue. Then, Brittany talks to Tuck Woodstock, host of the 'Gender Reveal' podcast, about the show's five-year mark and how we can all talk about gender in more informed ways.

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0:00.0	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:03.9	I'm Brittany Loose.
0:05.1	I wouldn't describe myself as a techie, but I am someone who likes to stay on top of technology
0:11.9	trends.
0:13.0	Like everybody else, I've seen the AI-generated selfies just about everyone's sharing on social
0:17.8	media.
0:18.8	And I've played around a bit with ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can write blog posts and
0:24.6	even something resembling poetry.
0:26.8	So I get it.
0:28.0	It's exciting stuff with a lot of potential to change how we do, well, everything.
0:33.8	And according to contemporary art curator, Marney Benny, some creatives are already coming
0:38.5	up with really cool ways to work with AI.
0:41.3	Like the artist, Reeps 1, he's a beatboxer.
0:47.7	And they trained an AI on his beatboxing.
0:50.4	And so it was, you know, just him and just his voice and the AI made choices that he
0:56.8	would have never made.
1:02.9	And it's not just musicians either.
1:04.8	The artist, Suga and Chang, she has taught these robotic painting units her brushstroke.
1:12.6	I paint stakingly collected as many of my drawings as I could find, then tag them for the AI
1:18.3	system.
1:19.3	She does a performance piece where she moves and paints and these little robotic units
1:25.8	also paint based on all her brushstrokes.
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