AI brain dump
Ever written a blog? Built a web page? Participated in a Reddit thread?
- Chances areyour words have contributed to the education of AI chatbots everywhere, Axios tech managing editor Scott Rosenberg writes from the Bay Area.
Why it matters: The AI boom is built on data. The data comes from the internet — and the internet came from us. But we produced all that stuff for one another, not for AI.
What’s happening: This massive verbal repurposing is triggering a legal brawl over whether it should be treated as fair use or theft.
- It’s also inspiringa personal reckoning for many of the millions whose postings built today’s online world.
How it works: We thought we were sharing our hearts and minds — and of course we were.
- But without realizing it, we were also creating a database — incomplete, but rich — of human expression.
- That database fuels he uncanny sentence-completion gymnastics of ChatGPT and its competitors.
Visual AI tools — Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion — got popular before verbal chatbots like ChatGPT. So visual creators — photographers, illustrators and fine artists — were the first to grapple with this realization.
- Musicians face the same epiphany, as they encounter multiplying AI-conjured facsimiles of their works — like the (fake) collaboration between Drake and the Weeknd, “Heart on My Sleeve.”
A Washington Post project, “Inside the Black Box,” lets you enter any internet domain name to answer the question: “Is your website training AI?” (This doesn’t include ChatGPT: OpenAI has not disclosed its sources.)
Scott’s thought bubble: The personal blog I wrote for 15 years is well represented in the Post data set — along, it seems, with most of the other writing I contributed for 10 years to the web magazine I helped create.
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