Should I A.I.?

In this episode I explore Artificial Intelligence and some of the issues around artists using AI in their creative process. I hope you will enjoy hearing and thinking about these issues.

 

Links For Further Reading and Viewing

• Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
• Bill Gates: The Age of AI Has Begun
• IBM Technology: What are Generative AI models?
• The ultimate list of AI tools for creators
• How to use ChatGPT to improve your creative process
• Generative AI for Makers: AI Has Truly Arrived — and It’s Here to Help You Make and Craft
• Artificial Intelligence Art School Meltdown | The Looming Crisis
• Eric Schmidt talks about concerns around AI

 

Links to books and websites mentioned in this podcast

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts, by Jaron Lanier

You Are Not A Gadget, by Jaron Lanier

Creative programming workshop with Sonic Pi

ChatGPT

DeepL Translator

Descript

Pixelmator

ProCreate

Hashtags #processing and #p5js

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Creative Shoofly Podcast. I'm Thomas Beutel. In this episode, I ask myself, what do I do with all these AI tools that are becoming available? How should I use these tools in my creative process? And how do I maintain integrity as I do?

These questions might be on your mind too, and I hope that I shed at least a little bit of light on the topic.

I am recording this in March of 2023, and there's been an explosion of AI announcements. All of a sudden, AI is everywhere. Everyone seems to be talking about it, and it feels almost like it's being jammed on our throats.

Yeah, we've been using Siri and Alexa and Hey Google for years now, and we know that recommendation algorithms have been limiting what we get to see on social platforms and in places like Netflix.[00:01:00] But while those services are a form of artificial intelligence, we were quickly jaded about how mediocre and dull they were.

But the latest AIs come in the form of image generators like Stable Diffusion and chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT. And they seem lightyears ahead of those earlier tools. And scarier too.

The AI image generators in particular caused quite a stir in the art commun