Will AI Kill the Future of the Creative Arts?

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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From AI-generated paintings to writing scripts and novels, AI is challenging our endeavor to create, innovate, and connect. Will the human touch be obsolete? Those arguing yes say since AI-created art can’t experience human emotions, it will lack depth, and it will come at an economic cost for human artists. Those arguing no say it’s another tool in a toolkit and will help express talent like never before. Now we debate: Will AI Kill the Future of the Creative Arts? Arguing Yes: Jonathan Taplin, Author; Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California Arguing No: Rebecca Fiebrink, Professor at the University of the Arts, London's Creative Computing Institute Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:18.0	Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. This is open to debate. I'm John Don Van.
0:26.4	Hi everybody. I'm a published author. My book in a different key, The Story of
0:30.1	autism, was a New York Times bestseller, and it was even a finalist for the Pulitzer
0:34.4	Prize.
0:35.5	And why I'm mentioning it is because I recently learned that its contents, every single
0:40.3	word, had been sucked into a massive data set that's being used by Meta, the owner of
0:45.3	Facebook, to help it train a language-based artificial intelligence whose output is designed
0:50.4	to sound as though it's coming from a real human.
0:52.3	A lot like
0:53.0	ChepyT which I'm sure you've heard of. I learned about this from an article in
0:56.7	the Atlantic which said that close to 170,000 books had had their
1:01.8	content scraped for this project. So I checked and yes
1:04.8	my book was on the list. So this is my first unexpected encounter with the burgeoning
1:11.3	reality of generative AI.
1:13.0	And I'm still working through how I feel about all of this,
1:15.8	but I am interested to hear the arguments
1:18.3	that will be made by the two sides in this episode
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