Monday Morning Moan – we need to face up to the fact that we've all got to face up to our responsibilities in the AI 'Wild West'
One thing is clear from the fractious debate about AI, creativity, professional standards, and copyright. While many artists, writers, academics, publishers, news organisations, film studios, musicians, and professions such as legal services and consultancy are outraged by the unlicensed scraping of proprietary data by AI vendors, many of the same people and organisations are going all-in on adopting the technology.
For example, I’m aware of a respected US non-fiction book publisher, established in the mid-19th century, which now routinely edits all manuscripts with AI – though its authors are not informed of it. Does a human editor check the output against the manuscript? And if not, who can say the book is still as the author intended it to be? These should not be incidental questions in the world of academic and professional books.
But they are not isolated examples. Journalists on broadsheet newspapers owned by News Corp are exhorted...
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