Could be worse. A fax of a fax of a fax.
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Google will prize original human created content, so they can steal it.
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AI or ML is not restricted to language models though.
Contextual awareness will need to be the next step.
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I’m bravely contemplating getting up. It’s just turned 6am 
Coffee is calling.
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Save us a spot under your 
in return 
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Have to go change the world one ASCII character at a time.
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On AI this is an interesting watch by the way: https://youtu.be/okGlJ2Ki2tk?si=eTIbAhtGGs4zbYmO
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Im a subscriber. But I haven’t watched that video. I’ll take a look later.
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Everything on subscription is free . The great deception.
Good conversation though everyone. So many things are happening in our industry. Most we have to watch the dust settle, trends can die as quick as they start.
Interesting times.
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Good article 
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Appreciate everyone’s responses here as well as the various resources listed. Obviously AI will have a tremendous impact on everything and every one, and yes, how you manage controlling who has access to the words, imagery and other productions we create can feel quite tenuous given how SEO and AI content scraping for language models work.
“Creatives” (hate that term) are not very happy about their work being used for free to build the ongoing intelligence of AI models that can be used to replace their expertise. The digital economy has already proven to be ruthless to those trying to make a living as writers, designers, photographers etc. Even programmers are feeling the pinch.
If my work is going to train AI and GAI tools to create profit for companies using these advanced tools, I expect to be reimbursed for that. As unrealistic as that might sound, I’d at least appreciate some sort of pathway for my work to positioned such that I can determine how it’s accessed and used by companies trying to cash in on AI.
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I previously worked as a professional photographer and also wrote books that were widely “shared”, so I can completely understand your perspective. All of this has been going on since the internet first took off, but this takes it to a whole new industrial level.
If the internet has taught us anything over the last 25 years, I suspect there is zero chance any of us will receive a penny of compensation for copying our work to develop AI, even when that results in directly undermining our businesses. My guess is that anybody in the private sector providing services that can be accessed through a computer is at risk here, even if they haven’t yet realised it.
One of the great ironies of technology is that those who have been most involved are the first to suffer in this instance. I doubt many landscape gardeners or plumbers have given this a second thought as yet. There will be positives though and I think the worst thing we can do right now would be to pretend AI doesn’t exist.
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It only gets really bad when the 
Terminators appear from the future.
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At the annual Ambrosetti Forum of economists and European business leaders on Lake Como, Italy, last weekend it was concluded that AI would be even more transformational than the industrial revolution, and all the other productivity enhancing leaps forward that followed.
Let that sink in for a moment; AI will be more impactful than clean water, flight, electricity, cars, mobile phones and all the rest put together. Anybody thinking AI won’t change things needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
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There is also a lot of over hyped social media, and articles about it (not to mention apps). You have to read between the lines a lot. There is a lot of junk out there turning a quick $$ or getting clicks.
I spent the other night with a guy at a Navy reunion, who has a PhD in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
I wished I had longer to pick his brains. He was very interested in how I was using “AI” in my workflow and how accurate the language models were for how the various web tools I’m using are using it. He pointed out some of the inherited limitations of language models, some of the things I had already experienced in my “AI” journey. He was fluent with web technology, so it was a great experience. But then we got onto the Simpsons and futurama
IMO. Language models are opening the door for other things. NLP is refining the way AI will interact with humans. As long as the robots do not think all humans are cats playing synths in space
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It will all go way beyond that. At a simple level we have had this for years and you only need to look at spellcheckers to realise the subtle ways it has been employed. In the future AI will permeate every aspect of our lives, especially with big businesses enthusiastic to cut down on staff costs, but also with the everyday technology we use like self-driving cars. @Jerry will be sipping a drink under a coconut tree delivered and prepared by a robot waiter.
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I have some friends who are world champ BattleBot guys. There Bot is called End Game.
I’m now concerned the Robots will go after them first for the inhumane things they have forced their robot to do to other robots 
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Of course. I’m not saying that’s the limit.
I do think most people only think in terms of language models like ChatGPT as “being” AI.
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