Valve appear to be not willing to publish games with AI generated content
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Valve quietly not publishing games that contain AI generated content if the submitters can't prove they own the rights to the assets the AI was trained on
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No, AI has no creativity. Everything generated by AI is a probabilistic interpretation of inputs and training data. It's purely mathematics, there's no emotion or actual thought put into it. But frankly, whether or not AI generated content is "new content" is a philosophical debate that doesn't matter while AI has the potential to displace more jobs and create more wealth inequality than ever before, and I don't necessarily mean in the "robots took my job" sense. Generative AI will push productivity to all time highs by an order of magnitude and wages will not have increased by the same, enabling a faster rate of wealth transfer to corporations and the top percentage of shareholders.
I didn't answer your question because it was vague and shows a lack of understanding of both how AI generates content and the future problems AI presents as long as it's controlled by the wealthy and corporations.
whether or not AI generated content is “new content” is a philosophical debate that doesn’t matter
It clearly does matter if valve is rejecting games because their art was generated by an AI.
Generative AI will push productivity to all time highs by an order of magnitude and wages will not have increased by the same, enabling a faster rate of wealth transfer to corporations and the top percentage of shareholders.
You think generative AI will be more advantageous to big corporations, versus smaller operations? How does that track?
I didn’t answer your question because it was vague and shows a lack of understanding of both how AI generates content
You have no idea what my skillset is, and I am passingly familiar with the concepts of machine learning. But my question, as I already noted, was more like "why do you think this phrase doesn't also apply to humans?". Which I already clarified, and you still haven't answered.
If a person is in the art/media-for-hire business, they're going to be in a rough spot in the very near future because a computer program will likely replace them. Just like self-driving cars-- the technology doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than humans. For cars, we're a little ways away from that; for art, that time is arguably right now.
If a person is in the art/media-for-hire business, they're going to be in a rough spot in the very near future because a computer program will likely replace them. Just like self-driving cars-- the technology doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than humans. For cars, we're a little ways away from that; for art, that time is arguably right now.
Yeah, so if you've actually read my comments instead of skimming for bits you can pick out and pedantically question you'd know that my point is that this is the problem. It's not like these people can say "oh my life as an artist is over, I'll just walk down the street and get another job that pays a living wage". Without accessible alternative wealth sources, this has the potential to severely displace skilled individuals, and not just artists.
If you don't see that as a problem then this conversation isn't worth having and your views are unimportant.
If you don’t see that as a problem then this conversation isn’t worth having and your views are unimportant.
My views only matter if they align with yours? This is a pretty ignorant way to go through life.
In any event, I guess it depends on what you mean by:
this has the potential to severely displace skilled individuals, and not just artists
If, by "displace" you mean they can't get paid to do something they used to get paid to do, then no, I do not see that as a problem. That's just how technological progress works.
However, if by displace you mean "they end up destitute on the streets", then yes, I do see that as a problem. A problem that should be solved by something that disconnects the need to work with the ability to live comfortably-- something like a UBI, not by trying to hold back technological progress to artificially keep those jobs in demand.
So, does my view matter?
My views only matter if they align with yours? This is a pretty ignorant way to go through life.
No, your views only matter if you can show a basic level of empathy and respect for your fellow humans.
Your line of thinking is just littered with inconsistencies. You recognize that people will be displaced, but that's "just how technology works" so you don't want to impede technological progress with restriction and regulation, however you also recognize that UBI should exist to assist those who are displaced, and even though it doesn't exist, and we're nowhere near a social structure where UBI could exist, you don't think artists should be paid for their work being used to train AI because of some edgy philosophical false equivalence that training an AI is just like teaching someone to paint.
You've shown no empathy to your fellow humans. You getting games with AI generated content is more important than people's livelihoods and you can hand-wave the guilt away by telling yourself that someone else should be working on universal basic income.
So to answer your question, no, your view doesn't matter.
How bad do you feel when your phone calls are routed without a human making the connections? How terrible do you feel when your refrigerator makes ice for you for essentially free, instead of having to pay someone to get it to your door?
This is not a new thing, and it's draconian to suggest that technology be held back to keep people artificially in demand.
Your silly stance on this reminds me of an equally silly quote from the late great Douglas Adams:
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
You're comparing the current exponential growth of technology to a time where a family could afford to live off a single minimum wage income and I'm the one with the silly stance? Lol
The principle doesn't change. Yes, your stance is silly. So silly that I'm guessing you're financially impacted in some way.
The entire situation has changed. The factors that we are discussing and directly impact the ethics of generative AI, i.e. wealth inequality, have literally changed. You don't live in a vacuum.
And now my argument is so silly that I must be "financially impacted"? There it is, can't care about something if it doesn't affect me personally right? My income has not been affected, I'm actually a data engineer who works directly with generative AI, so I actually understand how it works.
The situation is exactly the same. Technology is rendering some human labor unnecessary. Like it has many times before. Like it will many times in the future. You can gnash your teeth and beat your breast about how gosh darn unfair it is, but it won't change it, or stop it, or even slow it down.
And yes, when people take irrational, emotional stances against change, it's almost always because they have financial skin in the game.