A nice read and I do agree with your call to use generative AI critically, as a tool and a need for a high level of media literacy. But we also got to be practical here - most won't. And the amount of AI generated content will soon swamp so much. I also, don't agree with your stand on authorship. It's not like remixing at all (something I support, have cheerlead). Rather, it absolves the author of any work, claim, art. It thinks for ourselves. So in that sense, it is a giant, push a button, one-off plagarism machine. Google's button in docs (labs) "Help me write" is really a very steep slippery slope into abandoning creative thought. Generative AI will take over the starting process and from there - is there any true authorship? I think not.
A nice read and I do agree with your call to use generative AI critically, as a tool and a need for a high level of media literacy. But we also got to be practical here - most won't. And the amount of AI generated content will soon swamp so much. I also, don't agree with your stand on authorship. It's not like remixing at all (something I support, have cheerlead). Rather, it absolves the author of any work, claim, art. It thinks for ourselves. So in that sense, it is a giant, push a button, one-off plagarism machine. Google's button in docs (labs) "Help me write" is really a very steep slippery slope into abandoning creative thought. Generative AI will take over the starting process and from there - is there any true authorship? I think not.