COM 107 Midterm 3

Concern # 1 with AI

Job Displacement/ Dissatisfaction: jobs loss due to new technology and jobs now less fun and enjoyable

Concern #2 with AI

Data, Identity and Intellectual Property

Concern # 3 with AI

Truth, Trust, and Misinformation

Concern #4 with AI

Environmental Impact

Concern #5 with AI

inequality and bias

What is Intellectual Property

Work or invention that is the result of human intellect

Why is AI convincing

AI responses are overly confident, authoritative because of their proper grammar and confident phrasing

What is the environmental impact

AI requires tables, data centers, power, resources.

Example of Bias and Inequality

A lot of highly vulnerable jobs are held by women or younger people.

How is AI changing art for creatives

AI images are getting difficult to differentiate between human made and AI generated

A Real Issue in the Tech Sphere: Intellectual Property Legal Guidelines

Gen AI have taken the IP to train their models through a giant scrape of the internet.

Forces the solutions to be on the artists rather than holding the AI companies responsible

To combat the stealing of IP without proper compensation, Artists have began to put up paywalls around their material or turning to apps that scramble their work on a pixel level.

Why is AI stealing IP of artists so significant and negative.

This could lead to the elimination of artists ability to make a living which in turn eliminates the presence of artists in a world. BAD.

What is a creative industry

The overlap between the art world and the economic world

4 Key Words to Highlight the differences between the art world and the economic world

Technology

Creativity

Skill

Authorship

Technology

• creative industry is more about products, technology can replace them. 

creativity

art world what matters is the ability to speak conceptual language, it was about advancing technique

skill

craft vs conceptual skills

authorship

in the art world, there is cirque of tradition techniques. for creative industries authorship is vital because of IP.

Broussard suggests the possiblity that art might disappear

This is not true because the art world will always ave space for art due to not relying on the economic market. However, creative industries will have a big change and cause the displacement of MANY workers.

Potential Solutions

• Labor: WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes. Striking to get AI protections written into their contracts. 

• Legal: anthropic lawsuit (trained data set, did not compensate, lost lawsuit) → decided unfair use of material and causing harm from copyright perspective

• Technical: glaze/ nightshade → adjustment of art so that it cannot be used for AI training. Makes it more difficult for the AI to train on the artists techniques. 

• Market: certifications from credence (training level, datasets and compensation for consent) t; authors guild

allocation harms

careers most vulnerable to Al are held by women

Standardization v Bias

Bias imposes harmful stereotypes. However, standardization focuses on the reduction of diversity.

3 Takeways on Standardization

Standardization loops through culture

Standardization facilitates commodification

Standardiza6ion has ideological effects

Why is AI standardization bad

AI standardization takes away from the ability be creative

Gillespie’s Experiment on Standardization

Left categories unmarked and wanted to see what assumptions the models would make.

Implications of the Standardization Test

Technological Default and the unmarked category.

AI developers- prompt engineering is not the solution.

Human Users-responsibilty to navigate if using.

What is a textpocalypse

Machine written language becomes the norm and human written prose becomes the exception.

Setup where machines could prompt other machines to put out text ad infinitum where the internet would be flooded with synthetic text devoid of human agency.

Concerns about Textpocalypse

Death of writing/ text

Decline in trust

Rhetorical Implications

Death of writing/ text

becomes estranged from us as a category of human expression

if we can’t trust human text, we have to turn to another form of expression.

decline in trust

dont believe everything you read becomes dont believe anything you read

rhetorical implications

loss of mediums to negotiate solutions without violence.

Preventing textpocalypse

Slop as a critique and indicator

Fending off Textpocalypse

Voluntary Transparency as an individual or organization

paywalled, boutique text vs freely accessible

going analogue