This is truly disturbing. Being robbed and impersonated in one fell swoop does indeed seem accurate. Everything that has troubled me about the numbers-based metrics dominating higher ed, and now publishing, finds its logical conclusion in this hellscape for artists and writers.
This world… I tell ya… man oh man… I enjoy your writings and love when you share thoughts and info about music, albums I’ve never heard of and in general, your thoughts on life. Keep it up… if you are who you say you are… LOL
I worked for Publix SuperMarkets for 35 years. My last 10 or so years we had a computer ordering system called AR… Automated Replenishment… I called it “Absolutely Ridiculous” to some of my superiors. :-)
It became a wonderful program, but there was a learning curve… :-)
I call AI… Absolutely Idiotic, Almost Insanity, Amazingly Infantile… or any other combinations I come up with. In time though, I assume it may be a part of my life. As of yet… I know nothing of it and have no use for it… maybe that makes me Awfully Ingenious… :-)
Thanks for what you do… if you’re actually doing it LOL :-)
Look at your Substack settings. There is a setting to "Block AI training." Which is scary enough as it is. See Settings-->Publications details:
"This setting indicates to AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard that their models should not be trained on your published content. This will only apply to AI tools which respect this setting, and blocking training may limit your publication's discoverability in tools and search engines that return AI-generated results."
I still don't see how AI is useful? Certainly not for artists of every kind. It only helps to make consumers and audiences lazy and stupid and devoid of thinking critically for themselves. Why come up with your own ideas when you can ask a machine to invent something for you??? I read University of Penn is the first to offer a degree in AI. So now you can graduate in pirating, plagiarizing encouraged. Maybe they'll include a course in AI forensics for when it murders our individual identities.
Sorry to hear this. I hope people have the sense not to buy it. I feel like the simplest solution is to make copyright material opt-in for machine learning - by law. The fair use argument seems bogus, it’s quite clear that a lot of AI - perhaps all - amounts to a sophisticated form of plagiarism. I think opt-in is where we are heading; I hope sooner rather than later to avoid a lot of damage along the way.
Thanks for highlighting this. As you say: “There ought to be a law to stop this.” Yes, and there ought to a broad legal framework for the advanced technology that thrives on theft and exploitation of everyone’s privacy and intellectual property, but sadly no such thing has been developed. It is past time to address these issues. A functioning Congress would help a lot. Register. And vote.
This and related issues are getting worse quickly. In the last few days I've seen the following: Facebook posting direct competitors ads on a friend's business page. Google promoting product "reviews" from major media sites that aren't actual reviews over those from legitimate review sites, driving down their business and promoting misinformation. To use Cory Doctorow's term, the enshitification of the Internet is happening at an ever-increasing rate.
We label movies, TV shows, tobacco, and foods already, with differing results. Producers avoid an X rating for their movies, since it's box office poison. For foods: they already tell you how much sugar and fat they contain, although that hasn't proven very effective so far.
If Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Goodreads were forced to put "AN AI-GENERATED BOOK" at the very top of every book description, that would be a good start, at least.
The text irresistibly reminds me of Schickele's parody biography of PDQ Bach, satirizing the writing style of academic music critics. "Unlike the many lesser-known but nevertheless competent composers who dotted the musical landscape of the Age Of Enlightenment..." Schickele was doing the same thing AI does now, but he made it funny.
Sorry to hear about this Mr Gioia. I think it has as much to do with the state of the culture as well as AI ! I hope you can get this sorted, because your writing and point of view are an invaluable contribution to music, culture, and life in general! I for one, am rooting for you! Steady on sir!
I’m convinced we will one day have a Certified Human stamp on creative work. The uprising is just beginning.
This is truly disturbing. Being robbed and impersonated in one fell swoop does indeed seem accurate. Everything that has troubled me about the numbers-based metrics dominating higher ed, and now publishing, finds its logical conclusion in this hellscape for artists and writers.
That's a shame that book was pulled - I was just about to order a copy!
As for Luke Ellington, he took the B train.
And the famous Charles Mingus once wore a mince pie hat - I read that somewhere...
This world… I tell ya… man oh man… I enjoy your writings and love when you share thoughts and info about music, albums I’ve never heard of and in general, your thoughts on life. Keep it up… if you are who you say you are… LOL
I worked for Publix SuperMarkets for 35 years. My last 10 or so years we had a computer ordering system called AR… Automated Replenishment… I called it “Absolutely Ridiculous” to some of my superiors. :-)
It became a wonderful program, but there was a learning curve… :-)
I call AI… Absolutely Idiotic, Almost Insanity, Amazingly Infantile… or any other combinations I come up with. In time though, I assume it may be a part of my life. As of yet… I know nothing of it and have no use for it… maybe that makes me Awfully Ingenious… :-)
Thanks for what you do… if you’re actually doing it LOL :-)
Look at your Substack settings. There is a setting to "Block AI training." Which is scary enough as it is. See Settings-->Publications details:
"This setting indicates to AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard that their models should not be trained on your published content. This will only apply to AI tools which respect this setting, and blocking training may limit your publication's discoverability in tools and search engines that return AI-generated results."
I still don't see how AI is useful? Certainly not for artists of every kind. It only helps to make consumers and audiences lazy and stupid and devoid of thinking critically for themselves. Why come up with your own ideas when you can ask a machine to invent something for you??? I read University of Penn is the first to offer a degree in AI. So now you can graduate in pirating, plagiarizing encouraged. Maybe they'll include a course in AI forensics for when it murders our individual identities.
Sorry to hear this. I hope people have the sense not to buy it. I feel like the simplest solution is to make copyright material opt-in for machine learning - by law. The fair use argument seems bogus, it’s quite clear that a lot of AI - perhaps all - amounts to a sophisticated form of plagiarism. I think opt-in is where we are heading; I hope sooner rather than later to avoid a lot of damage along the way.
Surprised? Baylor Swift has a new album about to drop.
Can we plug the leaks? A digital rights law with serious teeth has been needed since the 80’s, or at least that was my rant then.
The revolution is in billing. Make em pay.
Also: Brian Roemmele suggests personal AI protection against this. Promising? Perhaps.
Thanks for highlighting this. As you say: “There ought to be a law to stop this.” Yes, and there ought to a broad legal framework for the advanced technology that thrives on theft and exploitation of everyone’s privacy and intellectual property, but sadly no such thing has been developed. It is past time to address these issues. A functioning Congress would help a lot. Register. And vote.
It’s awful too for readers to have to wade through fake listings to get to real writing.
This and related issues are getting worse quickly. In the last few days I've seen the following: Facebook posting direct competitors ads on a friend's business page. Google promoting product "reviews" from major media sites that aren't actual reviews over those from legitimate review sites, driving down their business and promoting misinformation. To use Cory Doctorow's term, the enshitification of the Internet is happening at an ever-increasing rate.
If ever, I read a good argument to return to ink on paper, this is one.
Does it help to know that creative works generated by AI cannot be copyrighted? Steal that book and resell under a different name.
Mandatory labelling is a very promising approach, and I support it.I independently came up with the same approach to kids' addiction to social media:
https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/enforcing-a-social-app-ban-for-kids
We label movies, TV shows, tobacco, and foods already, with differing results. Producers avoid an X rating for their movies, since it's box office poison. For foods: they already tell you how much sugar and fat they contain, although that hasn't proven very effective so far.
If Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Goodreads were forced to put "AN AI-GENERATED BOOK" at the very top of every book description, that would be a good start, at least.
The text irresistibly reminds me of Schickele's parody biography of PDQ Bach, satirizing the writing style of academic music critics. "Unlike the many lesser-known but nevertheless competent composers who dotted the musical landscape of the Age Of Enlightenment..." Schickele was doing the same thing AI does now, but he made it funny.
Sorry to hear about this Mr Gioia. I think it has as much to do with the state of the culture as well as AI ! I hope you can get this sorted, because your writing and point of view are an invaluable contribution to music, culture, and life in general! I for one, am rooting for you! Steady on sir!