I’m so with you! As a photographer I’ve used AI for things like taking people out of group shots or augmenting the angle of a brides veil... and I’m ok with good with that because AI can’t wrangle people and pose them and choose a location for portraits and connect with them so as to lower their inhibitions in front of my lens etc. etc. It for sure can’t replace me... (yet) 🙄
Thank you Monica. Please share it or reference it if you wish. I’ve enjoyed reading your work which I found because of your note and will look forward to reading your own thoughts on AI.
Loved this post! It’s true, for all the hype about AI, it’s yet to prove itself to be more than a gimmick most of the time - At least what is currently available for wide public consumption. That picture at the end is hilarious!
Thank you for writing this article. I loved this quote: “The power of music lies in its ability to express things that words cannot say. It can hold a space for our emotions, wrap them up in beauty or scourge them with dissonance. It is the voice of our human spirit.” AI could never write that.
As someone who makes her living from copywriting, I was initially worried that Chat GPT would steal my job - until I actually played with it. Its output is bland, circular and, to anyone who writes for a living, clearly written by a machine (one giveaway is that the sentences are all the same length).
It just doesn't get tone of voice, either. Apparently it was initially developed for chat bots — hence the unremittingly perky tone and why, on the odd occasion a student has sent me an email written by AI, the results have been laughable.
I couldn’t agree more. As I say in the piece, I have never “produced” anything in my experiments that came close to something that I (or another writer) who thinks about things like tone, shape, or cadence would write. My worry is not that it might steal our jobs (because its output is unremittingly trivial - at the moment), but that by just letting it happen all around us we are sleepwalking into an existential crisis.
Brilliant and very timely.. I'm slightly more positive about the good which may come from the use of AI, particularly in medical research but as ever, with any new toy, it's all going dépend on how well we wonky humans manage the potential..for good or for bad.
Thank you! I agree that it has the potential to be useful in certain areas of study and practical application. But not in real creative work which ultimately we engage in to express our humanity.
Absolutely and you expressed this so succinctly: The Artificial versus the Authentic. "To live is to suffer..." and in that living and suffering is also endless beauty and creativity... the paradox.
I’m so with you! As a photographer I’ve used AI for things like taking people out of group shots or augmenting the angle of a brides veil... and I’m ok with good with that because AI can’t wrangle people and pose them and choose a location for portraits and connect with them so as to lower their inhibitions in front of my lens etc. etc. It for sure can’t replace me... (yet) 🙄
Such a compelling essay, Elisabeth. I also think the same way as you expressed in here. And that quote by Nick Cave is brilliant, spot on!
Thank you Monica. Please share it or reference it if you wish. I’ve enjoyed reading your work which I found because of your note and will look forward to reading your own thoughts on AI.
Thanks for your kind words, Elisabeth! Here is my essay, just out: https://monicanastase.substack.com/p/ai-content-tools-moral-question
I agree completely.
Best wishes.
Loved this post! It’s true, for all the hype about AI, it’s yet to prove itself to be more than a gimmick most of the time - At least what is currently available for wide public consumption. That picture at the end is hilarious!
Thank you for writing this article. I loved this quote: “The power of music lies in its ability to express things that words cannot say. It can hold a space for our emotions, wrap them up in beauty or scourge them with dissonance. It is the voice of our human spirit.” AI could never write that.
Thank you for making me feel validated Jackie! And I hope that AI will never be able to write that.
As someone who makes her living from copywriting, I was initially worried that Chat GPT would steal my job - until I actually played with it. Its output is bland, circular and, to anyone who writes for a living, clearly written by a machine (one giveaway is that the sentences are all the same length).
It just doesn't get tone of voice, either. Apparently it was initially developed for chat bots — hence the unremittingly perky tone and why, on the odd occasion a student has sent me an email written by AI, the results have been laughable.
I couldn’t agree more. As I say in the piece, I have never “produced” anything in my experiments that came close to something that I (or another writer) who thinks about things like tone, shape, or cadence would write. My worry is not that it might steal our jobs (because its output is unremittingly trivial - at the moment), but that by just letting it happen all around us we are sleepwalking into an existential crisis.
Brilliant and very timely.. I'm slightly more positive about the good which may come from the use of AI, particularly in medical research but as ever, with any new toy, it's all going dépend on how well we wonky humans manage the potential..for good or for bad.
Thank you! I agree that it has the potential to be useful in certain areas of study and practical application. But not in real creative work which ultimately we engage in to express our humanity.
Absolutely and you expressed this so succinctly: The Artificial versus the Authentic. "To live is to suffer..." and in that living and suffering is also endless beauty and creativity... the paradox.