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by SteveVeilStream
530 days ago
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I share the frustration but I'm also confident that solutions will be found. People had the same thought in 1995.
"Consider today's online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen." https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv... That problem spurred many innovations over the past 30 years. Today, the barrier to posting on the internet is lower than ever but it's also never been easier to find high quality material. AI brings things to a new level. The multitude of fake images sand videos of the Hollywood sign burning are one example. It was slop that was almost impossible to differentiate from real images. Current systems for ensuring the right content filters to the top are breaking. It's a rich area for new innovations. |
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It wasn't until AOL that the internet was turned into shite.. by letting the unwashed masses online.
As for AI images being horrible, I disagree 100%. If I, as an independent artist, had made some water colors, chalk, or line drawings of the Hollywood sign burning, would that be so horrible? What if I did a photo-realistic oil painting, like John Baeder's, "that couldn't easily be distinguised from the real thing" - and they were widely circulated as "photographs" and confused with same - would that be so horrible?
Is there a real need to see real images of the Hollywood sign aflame versus an AI generated one? As long as it happened, the two images tell roughly the same information. And even if it's untrue, it's not like a burnt or unburnt sign matters that much either way.
And there's an idea that all mediums produce a certain bias, I think McLuhan's Medium is the Message had some ideas along those lines. The act of taking a particular photograph is, itself, a subjective and biased action. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's an idea.