Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
Like oil and land, data are a common that is commodified by private actors for profits. The commons being commodified is our essence as humans: our interactions with society at large.
Hanlin Li • From My Data to Our Data: A Proposal to Equitably Distribute Wealth in a Digital Economy
Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
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They thought it would be particularly useful for writing in a certain voice or character, or for coming up with thematically exciting words. They wondered what kind of thesaurus would come from a corpus of nautical novels (like Moby Dick)
Lydia Chilton • How a Stylistic, Machine-Generated Thesaurus Impacts a Writer’s Process
the reconfiguration of culture as a domain of not just human-made meanings but also machinic calculation
Creative AI Lab • Creative—Critical—Constructive —Collaborative—Computational: Towards a C5 model in Creative AI
Maybe the creative work is now to figure out ways to nudge AIs into being weird and interesting rather than producing inane imitations of the most ordinary human writing
Allison Parish • Language models can only write poetry
Creativity is the ability to come up with ideas or artefacts that are new , surprising , and valuable .
Margaret Boden • Creativity in a Nutshell
I think that the language model’s failure to dismiss the class results from a slightly different cause than my student’s failure to dismiss the class with the same utterance. While the student’s failure arises from their lack of authority, the model’s failure results from the fact that it functions more like a citation of language rather than a
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In particular, anthropomorphizing the AI system mitigates the responsibility to the artist, while bolstering the responsibility of the technologist. Critically, this suggests that the responsibility that will be allocated to individuals in the creation of AI art will be dependent on the choice of language and framing used to discuss it
Sydney Levine • Who gets credit for AI-generated art? – MIT Media Lab
User-generated content platforms were a huge source for the image data. WordPress-hosted blogs on wp.com and wordpress.com represented 819k images together, or 6.8% of all images. Other photo, art, and blogging sites included 232k images from Smugmug, 146k from Blogspot, 121k images were from Flickr, 67k images from DeviantArt, 74k from Wikimedia,
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