AI is stealing writers’ words and jobs…

[CapnZapp]

Teamsters, and SAG showed the way to deal with protecting their jobs, there should be a Content Creators Union to do the same. However, I don't think the AI companies are even going to look at overturning copyright law, as they hold copyrights also, so that it is not in their interests. I don't know the endgame, though to take a stab, I would say after the dust settles, big companies like Disney, or WOTC will not go after small users, though they might go after DTRPG saying for them to stop selling material using their copyrighted material, and leave it to them to do the take downs.

For me personally, AI art makes my job harder because even after I have clicked on excluding AI art on a search of adobe stock, it cuts out hits from say 80,000 to only 20,000. I have had to remove pictures I paid for, because the artist later posted it was AI art. I don't get that time and money back, plus I think because people saw the original AI art, they might have downgraded me. I accept that AI is here to stay, though I don't like feeling ripped off by it all. It is not fair either for the stock art sites to be flooded with art that is unusable, there is enough of that without the AI art.

I can certainly understand a wish for AI content to be clearly labeled as such.

However, I think this to be a temporary problem.

In just a few short years AI will be everywhere and no longer stigmatized.

Then the issue will have solved itself.

 

[CapnZapp]

I for obe am not in the least surprised that automation is touching creative jobs. I'm surprised it's taken this long to happen. And I applaud it for its role in banishing long vitalist superstitions that attributed creativity basically to some kind of sorcery.

Yep.

Very soon now the advantages will be made clear; that billions can make imagery instead of millions.

Then most people will move on.

 

[CapnZapp]

Exactly this. I don't like the assertion that somehow, automation will mean that people will not HAVE to work. It just means less opportunities.

He didn't say that.

He said we won't have the same kinds of jobs in the future.

 

[CapnZapp]

Exactly this. I don't like the assertion that somehow, automation will mean that people will not HAVE to work. It just means less opportunities.

Do you really think people had more opportunities before steam engines or weaving mills or computers...?

 

[dragoner]

I can certainly understand a wish for AI content to be clearly labeled as such.

However, I think this to be a temporary problem.

In just a few short years AI will be everywhere and no longer stigmatized.

Then the issue will have solved itself.

This is flawed logic, like saying tagging is everywhere and we will just get used to it. Certainly AI art makes my life worse, and I dumped both stock art sites, something better curated is likely to be more attractive without being vandalized. Plus it is like plastic replacing wood, it may have done it, though it cheapens the feel.

 

[lynnfredricks]

I can certainly understand a wish for AI content to be clearly labeled as such.

However, I think this to be a temporary problem.

In just a few short years AI will be everywhere and no longer stigmatized.

Then the issue will have solved itself.

AI is everywhere now but it is just now colliding with the market of expressions of intellectual property, which is far, far larger an issue that encompasses the worries in this little vertical market of RPGs.

What we haven't really seen yet are new laws and rulings under current laws. The copyright office has already planted a flag on copyright not being protected for AI on the basis of AI not being a human. Congress is looking at the issue of 'deep fakes' generated with AI vs Section 230 immunity.

Also, intellectual property was a rather peripheral issue not all that long ago in regards to international trade, leaving it up to individual businesses on how they want to address it. Recently, it is being viewed more as an issue of national security.

I don't see the RPG industry tail wagging the dog here. Its going to take some time before the RPG industry figures out what kind of dog its going to be attached to.

 

[Ryujin]

I can't remember this little gem being posted here: The AI ghost of George Carlin doing a "special", recreated without any permission.

AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’

Stand-up comedian George Carlin has been brought back to life in an artificial intelligence-generated special called 'I'm Glad I'm Dead.'

variety.com

 

[overgeeked]

I can't remember this little gem being posted here: The AI ghost of George Carlin doing a "special", recreated without any permission.

AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’

Stand-up comedian George Carlin has been brought back to life in an artificial intelligence-generated special called 'I'm Glad I'm Dead.'

variety.com

That's heartbreaking. Kelly's wonderful. What a nightmare to have to deal with that. And at a guess, it's only the beginning of a flood of similar nonsense.

 

[Sacrosanct]

AI is everywhere now but it is just now colliding with the market of expressions of intellectual property, which is far, far larger an issue that encompasses the worries in this little vertical market of RPGs.

What we haven't really seen yet are new laws and rulings under current laws. The copyright office has already planted a flag on copyright not being protected for AI on the basis of AI not being a human. Congress is looking at the issue of 'deep fakes' generated with AI vs Section 230 immunity.

Also, intellectual property was a rather peripheral issue not all that long ago in regards to international trade, leaving it up to individual businesses on how they want to address it. Recently, it is being viewed more as an issue of national security.

I don't see the RPG industry tail wagging the dog here. Its going to take some time before the RPG industry figures out what kind of dog its going to be attached to.

I remember the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act days. This reminds me of that.

 

[Bohandas]

Also, intellectual property was a rather peripheral issue not all that long ago in regards to international trade, leaving it up to individual businesses on how they want to address it. Recently, it is being viewed more as an issue of national security.

Which is yet another piece of proof that the corporate content creation industry has grown too powerful and needs to be taken down a peg. Putting content creation in the hands of the people instead of professi9nal artists will go a long way toward that end