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Generative AI Can Only Produce Dead Things
I hope there will always be people who want human art
It’s been just over two years since ChatGPT was launched, introducing the world to the marvels of AI-generated “writing.” Since then, there have been many bumps in the genAI road. There was the time that ChatGPT told a Texas university professor that all his students had cheated.
Taking the information at face value, he flunked every student which made many of them ineligible to graduate. The professor, like many humans, was paranoid about a technology that could be used to game the system. Perhaps he was also worried that this new seemingly intelligent chatbot could eventually replace him.
Things got even weirder in the business world. Knowledge workers — a term broadly used for anyone whose job requires using a computer for businessy things — began worrying if they, too, could be replaced. These are the marketing jobs, the logistics jobs, the business support and administrative jobs. They’re also the content writing jobs, the graphic design jobs, the programming jobs.
Even the professionals with lots of letters after their names were worried, until a couple of lawyers used ChatGPT to do research for a case. They discovered that the quotes and citations they submitted to a real-life judge came from two…