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Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)

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170 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 10 Apr 25 14:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.4s | source
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chuckadams ◴[10 Apr 25 15:15 UTC] No.43644704[source]▶
It certainly is liberating all our creative works from our possession...
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vonneumannstan ◴[10 Apr 25 15:20 UTC] No.43644787[source]▶
Intellectual Property is a questionable idea to begin with...
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chuckadams ◴[10 Apr 25 15:43 UTC] No.43645069[source]▶
It's not the loss of ownership I'm lamenting, it's the loss of production by humans in the first place.
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vonneumannstan ◴[10 Apr 25 16:11 UTC] No.43645355[source]▶
People made the same argument about Cameras vs Painting. "Humans are no longer creating the art!"

But I doubt most people would subscribe to that view now and would say Photography is an entirely new art form.

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1. chuckadams ◴[11 Apr 25 00:38 UTC] No.43649298[source]▶
A human is still involved with the camera. Just a different set of skills, and absent manipulation in post, the things being photographed tended to actually exist. Now we need neither photographer nor subject.
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2. vonneumannstan ◴[11 Apr 25 15:20 UTC] No.43654855[source]▶
AIs still aren't autonomous. The model doesn't make anything unless a human directs it to. It's just another layer of abstraction above the camera or paintbrush.