[Opinion] How AI Challenges Notions of Authorship (opinion)

How AI Challenges Notions of Authorship (opinion)

Patrick M. Scanlon considers how AI challenges notions of authorship. Have you seen the Apple Intelligence writing tools commercial featuring a dim-witted office drone named Warren? Tapping away on his iPhone, he writes a goofy, slangy email to his boss and then has the app transform his prose by selecting “Professional.” The manager reads the resulting concise memo and, stunned at the source, asks himself, “Warren?” Warren has a ghostwriter. In…

Refreshed opinions on AI art

A couple years ago, I wrote several posts about AI art. But AI is a moving target, and there’s no sense to committing to one single view about it. So let’s reconsider. 1. AI art as theft The argument against AI images that has had the most staying power, is the idea that training an image generator on art is stealing from the artists. I’ve become somewhat more sympathetic to this argument over time. I previously argued before that what AI is do…