Isabelle Levent

Allen feels the same way. “I believe if you focus on the negative with AI, then that will come true,” he says. “And if we get more people focusing on the good and positivity that we can do with it, then that will come true.”

Many people don't consider that when they use the internet, be that making a simple HTML/CSS site, or using a site through a big conglomerate, scrapers are scraping and crawlers are crawling the content unless you've specifically configured  robots.txt  and  no-index  rules to prevent it.

New art-making technologies change art in consistent ways, and studying the past helps us understand how things will change in the future.

Our intuitive moral understanding of actors and transgressions may be at odds with the inherent complexity of AI systems.

Second, we should create a legal regime that can make our data’s collective value something we can bargain over as a group.

A couple participants found success using the chatbot as a convenient search engine alternative (KL, WT). KL wrote: “It’s kind of great to use the chat interface and treat LaMDA as a thesaurus, quote finder, and general research assistant.”

For a computer to make a subtle combinational joke, never mind to assess its tastefulness, would require, first, a data-base with a richness comparable to ours, and, second, methods of link-making (and link-evaluating) comparable in subtlety with ours. 

With so much focus on creation, few systems consider revision. Revision—this is where the average writer gets the most outside help.