Human Intelligence™ News Update 12/5
Your weekly roundup about human creativity in the age of AI. [Dec 1 - 7, 2024]
Human Creativity
READING - National Book Award
Percival Everett handwrote novels for years and published through small presses. He just won the National Book Award with his novel James, which re-imagines Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, an escaped slave. Read More »
MUSIC - Extended Compilation
The new Red Hot compilation, TRAИƧA is a new 46-track album that celebrates queer and trans artists in music. Featuring artists like Sam Smith, Faye Webster, and André 3000, the album is a combination of covers and originals. Listen Here »
FILM - AI Work isn’t Art
Oscar-winning director Guillermo Del Toro has gone on the record to protest against AI, stating that he doesn’t believe that AI-generated art is ”true art.” He’s not the only filmic artist to dismiss the technology as a dead end. Read More »
FORECAST - Borges Prophecy
Joel Abrams in The Conversation pointed out this week that The Library of Babel, an 83-year-old story by Jorge Luis Borges forecasts a future where an endless pool of false content leads to a degraded world of information. Read the Borges Story »
HOLIDAY ART - San Francisco
Let’s Glow SF, the country’s largest holiday projection event, is returning to downtown San Francisco for the 2024 holiday season. The free projection arts festival has expanded this year to include large-scale animated light installations by 16 artists from around the world and award-winning design studios, plus projections at Annie Alley in Yerba Buena and art installations. Read More »
Human VS Robot
STRIKE! - Voice Actor Explains
A voice actor strike against AI is having a massive impact on the video game industry right now. Voice actor Kelsey Jaffer (Zenless Zone Zero, Yaoyao - Genshin Impact, Ayla, etc.) talks about AI and the SAG AFTRA strike in this video »
GAMERS - Declare Yourself
Itch.io is a popular site for video games, game assets, comics, zines, and music. It’s a discovery zone for new games — and the site now requires all creators and game developers to declare if they used generative AI in their work. Read More »
WRITERS - Missing the Target
Writer Leon Furze analyzes OpenAI’s product release and critiques the company’s emerging focus on writing. He points out that ChatGPT’s new suite of tools for writers “don’t actually do anything to benefit the author. They’re reader-centric, and position the reader as an inane, halfwitted moron.” Read More »
WIKIPEDIA - Declaration of War
AI slop is threatening to degrade the useability of Wikipedia — and Wikipedia is fighting back with a strike team called the WikiProject AI Cleanup, which describes itself as “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” Read More »
COMEDY - Lawsuit is No Joking Matter
On a new podcast with Rob Lowe, Comedian Sarah Silverman opened up about her copyright infringement lawsuit against Sam Altman's OpenAI, creators of the chatbot ChatGPT, and the merits of her case against these thieves. Listen Here »
Artificial “Intelligence” & Other Myths
FAKE BOOKS — “Publishing” Startup
A new “publishing” startup has claimed it aims to “disrupt” books by publishing 8,000 new books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence. However, the founding team has no background in publishing, writing or editorial. Read More »
FAKE ART — Artists Revolt
A group of artists who were given early access to OpenAI's Sora video generation model vengefully leaked the tool to the public. The artists wrote that they’d been offered early access to Sora to be “creative partners.” Instead, they revolted because they believe OpenAI wants to use unpaid artists like them for the purpose of merely “art washing” an exploitative business model. Read More »
FAKE GAMES — OpenAI Rejected
The New York Times’s lawsuit against OpenAI reached an interesting intersection when Judge Ona T. Wang rejected OpenAI’s request for internal information from the Times, comparing OpenAI to a mere video game manufacturer and the Times to a copyright holder whose rights were infringed by a thief. Read More »
FAKE MUSIC — Suno Recap
Writer and technologist Jim Amos covers the story of Suno, a promising startup that took users down a bizarre rabbit hole of illicit music production. Users could create synthetic music based on existing synthetic data which in turn was based on original copyrighted works scraped without permission by Suno. Read More »
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