In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource

Creativity's survival in AI era hinges on having right guardrails

THE recent Hari Raya celebrations saw a new trend on social media. Alongside family photos and festive greetings were artificial intelligence-generated portraits. These showed families and loved ones transformed into Studio Ghibli film characters. The appeal is as obvious as it is understandable. These pieces of "art" are novel, accessible and beautiful. They are created in seconds with just a few typed words and an uploaded photo. But what does…

In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource

Ironically, our present AI age has shone a bright spotlight on the immense value of human creativity as breakthroughs in technology threaten to undermine it. As tech giants rush to build newer AI models, their web crawlers vacuum up creative content, and those same models spew floods of synthetic media, risking drowning out the human creative spark in an ocean of pablum. Given this trajectory, AI-generated content may soon exceed the entire corp…

Can machines surpass a person's creativity? Some authors see the writing of books by artificial intelligence as "betrayal to their work." And yet, AI is still gaining a foothold in creative fields of work. Day 7 looks at opportunities and risks.

In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource - WorldNL Magazine

Op-ed: As AI outputs flood the Internet, diverse human perspectives are our most valuable resource. Ironically, our present AI age has shone a bright spotlight on the immense value of human creativity as breakthroughs in technology threaten to undermine it. As tech giants rush to build newer AI models, their web crawlers vacuum up creative content, and those same models spew floods of synthetic media, risking drowning out the human creative spar…

IP Day: “We can avoid an information apocalypse only if we strengthen laws that protect authors’ rights”

“Democracy is not possible unless members of the electorate have access to reliable news on which to base their voting decisions. That cannot happen without ethical, independent journalism”, said the International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) ahead of World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April. The federations point at a new troubling force in the information ecosystem: artificial intelligence. Developed using the works of …