Isabelle Levent

In many instances, to say that some technologies are inherently political is to say that certain widely accepted reasons of practical necessity–especially the need to maintain critical technological systems as smoothly working entities–have tended to eclipse other sorts of moral and political reasoning.

A lot of the famous artists who use the platform, they’re all saying the same thing, and it’s really interesting. They say, “I feel like Midjourney is an art student, and it has its own style, and when you invoke my name to create an image, it’s like asking an art student to make something inspired by my art. And generally, as an artist, I want

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.

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.

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

What’s difficult is to state our aesthetic values clearly enough to enable the program itself to make the evaluation at each generation.

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

Indeed, AI is a diffuse term that corresponds to a web of human actors and computational processes interacting in complex ways