AI and writing

If you haven’t written on AI or seen a mention of AI in your daily life – what have you missed?

Just reading a report from the Author’s Licensing and Collecting Society – a group who helps author’s get remuneration and has oversight responsibilities for what author’s generate/create.  The report is called:  A Brave New World?  A survey of writers on AI, remuneration, transparency and choice.

In a concluding statement, Tom Chatfield, ALCS Chair, author and tech philosopher attempts to bring forth the strong place of creativity in our world.  Here is a true creative writing by a human:

“Both creators and audiences deserve better than a future of endlessly opaque algorithmic outputs. The purpose of reading isn’t to consume as many words as possible, just as the purpose of writing isn’t to fill the world with torrents of text. What matters is the human connections and experiences woven through creative work. Writing, reading and storytelling are how we forge meaningful bonds between people; how a society explores its values and makes sense of its experiences.”

How much is creative work (human) valued and respected in an algorithmic age?  This is the question Chatfield asks – a question our son has asked as an artist.  We might go even more basic in the question – What human work will be valued and respected in an algorithmic age?

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