This line of thinking is a real misunderstanding of creativity. “Humans are only remixing things they’ve learned, so AI is the same”. It’s not the same. If an AI has nothing but images of apples in its training data, it will never ever be able to draw a banana. It seems creative and smart on the surface only because its trained on the (stolen) input of every bit of art, text, and code on the internet. But if humans stop creating new imaginative input, it will stagnate right where it is.
If someone has never seen a banana they wouldn’t be able to draw it either.
Also, AIs aren’t stealing anything. When you steal something you have deprived the original owner of that thing. If anything, AIs are copying things but even that isn’t accurate.
When an image AI is trained, it reads though millions upon millions of images that live on the public Internet and for any given image it will increment a floating point value by like 0.01. That’s it. That’s all they do.
For some reason people have this idea in their heads that every AI-generated image can be traced back to some specific image that it somehow copied exactly then modified slightly and combined together for a final output. That’s not how the tech works at all.
Totally disagree. I’ve seen original sources reproduced that show exactly what an AI copied to make images.
And humans can definitely create things that have never been seen before. An AI could never have invented general relativity having only been trained on Newtonian physics. But Einstein did.
This line of thinking is a real misunderstanding of creativity. “Humans are only remixing things they’ve learned, so AI is the same”. It’s not the same. If an AI has nothing but images of apples in its training data, it will never ever be able to draw a banana. It seems creative and smart on the surface only because its trained on the (stolen) input of every bit of art, text, and code on the internet. But if humans stop creating new imaginative input, it will stagnate right where it is.
If someone has never seen a banana they wouldn’t be able to draw it either.
Also, AIs aren’t stealing anything. When you steal something you have deprived the original owner of that thing. If anything, AIs are copying things but even that isn’t accurate.
When an image AI is trained, it reads though millions upon millions of images that live on the public Internet and for any given image it will increment a floating point value by like 0.01. That’s it. That’s all they do.
For some reason people have this idea in their heads that every AI-generated image can be traced back to some specific image that it somehow copied exactly then modified slightly and combined together for a final output. That’s not how the tech works at all.
You can steal a car. You can’t steal an image.
Totally disagree. I’ve seen original sources reproduced that show exactly what an AI copied to make images.
And humans can definitely create things that have never been seen before. An AI could never have invented general relativity having only been trained on Newtonian physics. But Einstein did.