Brilliant Helen! You've expanded my thinking. I appreciate your reflections on creativity, copyright, and AI through the lens of Kant, Hegel, and Locke. It's refreshing to take a step back from all the current buzzy press on AI and take a moment to ask the philosophical questions.
Thank you Rachael for your kind words! I feel kinda unworthy of it LOL Current buzzes and hypes are interesting to follow and are relevant, but I think they distract us from bigger and more consequential questions that we should be asking earlier than later, which will inevitably affect each and every one of us who creates.
“Turns out, this animal-selfie-copyright question matters a great deal. A case even went up to an US Circuit Court – just one level below the Supreme Court.”
Damn, PETA doesn’t mess around lol
This whole essay is wild. PETA, philosophy, creativity, AI. You did an exceptional job making this entertaining and educational.
"AIs behave as if they have agency. Do they actually have agency?" 😵💫
Oooh yes Led Zeppelin FTW! They are surely legendary, aren't they?!
Haha yeah, that case was pretty wild and got a lot of people jived up. There's a reason that wikimedia foundation retains a general counsel -- it's precisely to deal with copyright around the world and curveball lawsuits like this.
Annnd thank you so much for your kind and encouraging word! I hope that this was educational and entertaining at the same time, because I do feel this is an important issue that people should have paid a lot more attention to. And the yes, the trend that I've seen some prototypical tech-bros claiming that AIs have actual agency is rather cringe. Like, just cringe, there's no word for it.
"All questions circle back to a who, because our philosophies have always centered on humans, and believed that humans are unique. But with AIs behaving as if they were human, our philosophies are being challenged. After all, what makes human unique?" -- You're going to make me sleep deprived thinking about this, Helen! This series is so packed with ideas and thoughts and things that I don't know that reading it is an unprecedented reflective and thought-provoking experience for me. I look forward to the continuation of this.
Ahhh Silvio!! Lots of times I send a newsletter and feel super insecure about how it would land, and it's precisely the thoughts and comments like yours that keep me going! <3 That my writing is reflective and thought-provoking (I never intend the sleep deprivation part though! LOL) is such a wonderful thing to hear, because that's exactly what I'm trying to do. So happy this comment comes from such a discerning reader like you. Thank you so much!!
Brilliant Helen! You've expanded my thinking. I appreciate your reflections on creativity, copyright, and AI through the lens of Kant, Hegel, and Locke. It's refreshing to take a step back from all the current buzzy press on AI and take a moment to ask the philosophical questions.
Thank you Rachael for your kind words! I feel kinda unworthy of it LOL Current buzzes and hypes are interesting to follow and are relevant, but I think they distract us from bigger and more consequential questions that we should be asking earlier than later, which will inevitably affect each and every one of us who creates.
Oooh loving Led Zeppelin, listened while I read.
“Turns out, this animal-selfie-copyright question matters a great deal. A case even went up to an US Circuit Court – just one level below the Supreme Court.”
Damn, PETA doesn’t mess around lol
This whole essay is wild. PETA, philosophy, creativity, AI. You did an exceptional job making this entertaining and educational.
"AIs behave as if they have agency. Do they actually have agency?" 😵💫
Oooh yes Led Zeppelin FTW! They are surely legendary, aren't they?!
Haha yeah, that case was pretty wild and got a lot of people jived up. There's a reason that wikimedia foundation retains a general counsel -- it's precisely to deal with copyright around the world and curveball lawsuits like this.
Annnd thank you so much for your kind and encouraging word! I hope that this was educational and entertaining at the same time, because I do feel this is an important issue that people should have paid a lot more attention to. And the yes, the trend that I've seen some prototypical tech-bros claiming that AIs have actual agency is rather cringe. Like, just cringe, there's no word for it.
"All questions circle back to a who, because our philosophies have always centered on humans, and believed that humans are unique. But with AIs behaving as if they were human, our philosophies are being challenged. After all, what makes human unique?" -- You're going to make me sleep deprived thinking about this, Helen! This series is so packed with ideas and thoughts and things that I don't know that reading it is an unprecedented reflective and thought-provoking experience for me. I look forward to the continuation of this.
Ahhh Silvio!! Lots of times I send a newsletter and feel super insecure about how it would land, and it's precisely the thoughts and comments like yours that keep me going! <3 That my writing is reflective and thought-provoking (I never intend the sleep deprivation part though! LOL) is such a wonderful thing to hear, because that's exactly what I'm trying to do. So happy this comment comes from such a discerning reader like you. Thank you so much!!