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I think you may enjoy this read about AI in the music industry, lots to ponder here about attribution and compensation for content creators.
This is a great video, thanks for sharing! In your post above, I think you raised some really fascinating questions to ponder about impact n role of AI in the creative arts.
I think one of poignant marks you bring up is about the collaboration of human and machine. This has a where I believe a beautiful synergy can be achieved unleashing inspiring new applications of machine learning across a variety of disciplines from healthcare to creative arts where AI augments and enhances the facets of human intelligence rather than replacing it outright. Figuring out the dance of synergy between human intelligence and machine intelligence these next few months and years will be fascinating to witness.
I think this video clip from the book Age of AI raises lots of thought provoking things to consider when thinking about this next technological transformation.
Did you see this? This is great to see some of the concerns and messy history of OpenAI being brought to the public dialog.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fm04Dvky3w8&pp=ygUJRWxvbiBtdXNr
Mmmm. I find it challenging to separate the two at this point, as the individuals, organizations and corporations at the helm of the generative AI markets will shape the fundamental systems redesign that will incentivize and shape the systemic implications of AI.
I think to fully evaluate the risks and opportunities with “unleashing an intelligent entity on humans” we first have to evaluate from a wholistic systems theory and invent totally new systems and economic models for healthy human engagement in an era of AI.
I think it will be important to prioritize fully auditable AI and transparent algorithmic practices.
In the case of addressing all the data harvested artists, I think we will need to invent new IP and Copyright structures so that we can more effectively engineer new systems to incentivize humans to create, engage and collaborate.
We have an opportunity to unleash an AI Renaissance, or quickly entrap ourselves in a digital serfdom. I think it is important to evaluate how do we steer ‘super intelligent AI’ from systems engineering perspective to unleash a sovereign and creative Renaissance?
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One of my concerns is looking at the inception evolution of OpenAI and it’s initial goal of “Open” AI development and how over time it pivoted from its founding philosophy, ethics and values and in 2018 prioritized commercialization and in 2019 set up a capped profit structure. Given Sam Altaman’s incredibly questionable ethical and transparency practices with World Coin, his power unchecked is of absolute grave concern as there is nothing “Open” about OpenAI today. Maybe it should be rebranded “Sam & Microsoft’s AI?”
“Now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft,” Elon Musk posted to Twitter. “Not what I intended at all.”
“OpenAI's transformation from an open-source champion to a closed-source, profit-driven company is a cautionary tale for the AI industry. “
There are many lessons to learn from the early history of the internet and the consolidation of corporate control that you elucidated to. It is important to observe the foundational terrain that is established in the generative AI ecosystem these next few months.
I would feel a lot better if there was a decentralized open source generative AI solution that is fully in line with the values of both Bitcoin and Nostr protocols. I think such a solution would be integral to helping preserve the future of digital sovereignty and collaborative innovation for future generations as we can very quickly end up in a form of digital serfdom if only select corporations dominate the generative AI market.
https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/openai-not-so-open/
https://fortune.com/2023/02/17/chatgpt-elon-musk-openai-microsoft-company-regulator-oversight/amp/
Wow must be interesting teaching students 1984 these days!
I’m reading Creativity Without Law- Challenging the Assumptions of Intellectual Property by Kate Darling and Aaron Perzanowski. #bookstr
“when the paper is landfilled, it releases up to 398 ml of methane per dry gram, contributing to three-quarters of the total climate change emissions from the paper life cycle [178]. Others incinerate PPI waste. However, this entails high costs and creates environmental risks due to the compounds released into the atmosphere [204], the large quantities of acid, or the infiltration of organic materials into the soil resulting from anaerobic digestion [205].”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032122005950
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Great quote and insight, thanks for your eloquent and poignant reflection.
I can’t help but worry that we are racing towards a new form of digital serfdom consolidating greater power in the hands of a few who yield the market dominant generative AI tools.
“Much depends on the assumption that controlling the potentially dangerous developments and effects of AI can be left to trustworthy, ethical human beings. These would of course be people not influenced by greed, power, profit or sociopathic tendencies. Which leads me in conclusion to a quote from German ethicist Immanuel Kant, who said presciently in 1784, ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.’”
https://www.timesgazette.com/2023/04/04/ai-utopia-or-dystopia/
So their 2022 annual report has no information about their sustainability strategy and mitigating their environmental impact. There is also no mention of %of recycled pulp used in their magazine or newsprint divisions in their raw materials statements.
In 2022 their combined news and magazine divisions used 74,700 tons of raw pulp. Which emits about 1,427,000,000 pounds of CO2 emissions consuming 168,390 acres of forest.
These calculation do not account for fact 80% of paper is not recycled and ends up back in landfills. “Decomposition of the paper in landfills produces methane, a greenhouse gas with 21 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide (CO2). U.S. EPA has identified landfills as the single largest source of methane emissions in the U.S., and the decomposition of paper is the largest contributor to the methane being generated.”
https://www.paperrecyclingcoalition.com/policyissues/how-recycling-paper-fights-global-warming/
At 80% that would mean, 51,770 tons of news and magazine print end up in landfills. Would be interesting to calculate methane generate from NYT news and magazines that end up in landfills.
This calculator is cool. Gotta figure out calculating their methane impact cause the irony is Bitcoin mining off displaced methane should be an integral part of mitigating their environmental impact.
https://reports.environmentalpaper.org/1fc8c368893067655eef346756bf980e.pdf
Cool, I was quickly scanning last night and it appears the NYT appears to be the media epicenter for last 15- 20 years of industry sponsored ‘green washing’ attacks.
Ironically, for a company at the epicenter of sustainability transformation dialog for so long, their annual reports contains no information about their sustainability strategy nor how they plan to offset the environmental impact of their print industry.
https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/03/The-New-York-Times-Company-2022-Annual-Report.pdf
Their annual reports contain their raw paper pulp metrics and would provide some insightful data driven points about environmental impact of their print industry alone. Additionally, 80% of newspapers are not recycled and end up in landfills as significant contributors to methane.
(Figuring out some quantifiable metrics on their methane pollution would help bring the debate full circle pointing out that Bitcoin mining is helping to capture their methane emissions.)
This is great paper industry environmental impact calculator.
https://c.environmentalpaper.org/group.html
If there is anyway I can be of help, please let me know. I am a big fan of quantifiable data driven insights in a debate.
This is welcome news, I hope more contenders with the means n drive throw their hat into the generative ai arena do so.
Given Sam Altman’s questionable ethical practices with World Coin, I would prefer to have a scope of choices in generative ai tools to use.
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