So for anyone who has read Finn McRedmond’s latest piece of contrarian clickbait (yeah, eye-rolling right back at you there, Finn), here’s a reminder that NO, AI predictive text generators built on harvested data is not the same as artists learning from other artists.
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Oisín McGann
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
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I read a book more than 30 years ago that demonstrated how the assertion in that second question is fundamentally wrong. Literally nothing has changed since.