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51re adding AI so that you can use text to describe a design, and it'll create a Facebook cover page, a YouTube profile picture, YouTube intro and outros, Instagram post and story and so forth, all from one text description. 52GitHub announced their co-pilot X that helps coders code faster. Ubisoft announced a dialogue generator for game development and Metahuman showed facial motion capture using just an iPhone, and this allows them to animate characters with very realistic facial expressions. 53With all these announcements, it does feel like AI is taking over at this point. Artists are asking themselves a lot of questions. 54How can I use these tools ethically and [00:04:00] morally? 55How will it affect the marketplace for art and creative products? 56Will it make me a dull person? 57These are all important questions. So, let's first talk about what AI really is, and then we can see how we can adapt any of it into our creative process. 58So, let's first get something out of the way. Artificial intelligence is not conscious intelligence. Some people describe it as an enhanced version of auto complete. I like that metaphor. All of these systems are trained on a large amount of data, and they create texts and images based on what they've been trained on. I like to think of AI as a statistics engine with some randomness thrown in. 59ChatGPT has been trained on 300 billion words from around the internet. From that training, it is able to guess what word comes next for a given prompt. Bing Chat is based on the same engine, [00:05:00] and Google's Bard is based on a similar large language model called LamMDA. 60Another example is the DeepL Translator. It translates from one language to another based on millions of translations it has been trained on. 61Other AI tools are similarly trained. Image generators like Midjourney, dall-E, and Stable Diffusion are trained on large numbers of images that have been captioned with text. They're able to generate new images based on text prompts. 62Transcription tools like Descript and Otter.ai, were trained on millions of voice samples to allow them to transcribe audio to text. Descript, PlayHT and others have text to speech capabilities that generate very realistic voices, again by being trained on millions of examples. 63All of these tools have been under development for many years, but they have now gotten to the point where they're quite good. And technology companies like [00:06:00] Canva and Adobe are rushing to incorporate them into the creativity products we use every day. 64So, these tools are now here and ready for us to use. 65The thing that has me thinking about the impact of AI is what Microsoft and Google recently announced. They both are incorporating chat-based AI tools into Microsoft 365 and Google workspace. These tools are targeted at the workplace, and that means that millions of people will soon be getting very comfortable prompting these AIs for answers about their businesses, and also to generate text for emails and presentations. 66AI generated content will become ubiquitous in a very short amount of time, and since it is in a business context, it will most likely not be marked as being generated. All of this will be widely accepted because the use of AI will increase productivity. Some estimates say that world GDP will increase by 7% over the next 10 [00:07:00] years. That's a massive amount! 67But what happens if I use AI to create an image that is based on someone else's intellectual property? How do I as an artist give credit or even payment if the AI tool doesn't even have the capability to tell me what the source was? 68I recently read a great Guardian interview with Jaron Lanier. He's a futurist, a technologist, an artist, and he's considered the godfather of virtual reality. He's been in the industry a long time. 69His take is the danger isn't that AI will destroy us. It's that it'll drive us insane. In the interview, Lanier says that he doesn't even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that the technology is actually intelligent. 70Just because a chatbot can pull information from millions of sources and express ideas in a language we can understand, that doesn't [00:08:00] make it better than us. 71Lanier's mission is to champion the human over the digital. In his book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts, he argues that the internet is making us dull and uncreative. His worry is that we'll use technology as agents of manipulation. We become mutually unintelligible because we are slaves to the algorithms that corral our attention into silos. 72So, he says that we have a responsibility to act morally and humanely. In spite of his view on what the internet has become, he believes that AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Bard could provide hope for the digital world. A good AI can open us to ideas and knowledge that we weren't seeking before. A well-designed chatbot would spark both curiosity and play.
73It could also keep track of the sources of information that it was trained on, and if the chatbot relied on something you created, [00:09:00] you could get paid for it. In a system where there is shared sense of responsibility and liability, everything works better. He calls it data dignity. 74In his book, You Are Not A Gadget, he said that the point of technology was to make the world more creative, expressive, empathetic, and interesting. He reminds us to remind ourselves of our humanity. 75What Jaron says is heartening to me. Like him, I do believe that the goal of technology is to help us be more expressive and more empathetic. I think we can use AI tools without compromising our humanity or our integrity. 76I've already been using Descript for three years now, taking advantage of its AI-based transcription to make audio editing much easier for me. Descript allows me to edit the text, and it edits the audio waveform for me based on those text edits. It's so much faster than fiddling with the waveform [00:10:00] directly. 77When I record my voice, I speak with a lot of ums and ahs. Descript automatically highlights all of those ums and ahs so that I can get rid of them with one click. 78Descript even has a voice generation feature called overdub. I've trained Descript with my own voice, and it allows me to replace words and phrases where I misspoke or I want to say something with more clarity, and I don't want to have to set up the microphone again to rerecord it. Descript generates the new text with my voice. 79When it comes to writing, however, like when I write a podcast script, I don't use AI to generate any of the words. These are all my own words. 80That said, I often will ask ChatGPT for a word or phrase. I'll say, âHey, what's a more precise word for this concept?â For example, I recently asked, âWhat is the Inc. Corp or Limited part of a company name called?â ChatGPT informed me that it was called the legal [00:11:00] designation. 81It's the sort of thing I once used Google for, and then I would need to follow a link. But ChatGPT gives me the answer right away, and it helps my writing be clearer. 82Another thing I do when I start a podcast script is to have ChatGPT ask me questions. I'll say, âI'm writing about this topic. What questions would you ask me if you were to interview me?â I find this a great way to jumpstart writing my first draft. I take those questions and either type out the answers or I just record the answers, and I use Descript's AI to transcribe them into text. 83It's a real time saver. It gets me to my first draft much more quickly than by starting with a blank page. 84Another way that I use ChatGPT is to critique my writing. I'll say, âHere's an idea that I'm trying to express. How well did I do?â ChatGPT at that point will usually [00:12:00] say, I did a great job. So not all that useful, but then I ask if I missed anything, and it will usually come up with a point or two that I hadn't thought of. 85For me, that's a godsend. It's like having a friend look over your work and make suggestions. I feel this has improved my writing quite a lot. 86Again, I'm not using AI to create any of the text, but it is making suggestions that I can then think about and write in my own words. 87As far as AI image generation, I don't find myself very interested in it. I did once use an AI image generator to help me with a scene that I was drawing in a comic because I needed to have a reference to draw to. 88So, I said, âShow me someone speaking at a podium with the audience in front of them,â and it created something good enough for me to then create my comic. The image I created was all mine, but the AI provided a reference. 89I think this idea of [00:13:00] references is a good way to take advantage of AI tools in the creative process. 90I do want to make a distinction about generative art that is created by writing an algorithm where I create the algorithm to make the art. That's not AI, and the algorithm is not trained on other artists' work. That's me thinking of a program to make and shape the image, and I enjoy that immensely because it's very challenging and creative to think of an algorithm and to figure out how to make the computer make the image that I'm imagining in my mind. 91If you're interested in seeing examples of non-AI generative art, look for the hashtag #processing or hashtag #p5js. I'll put links to them in the show notes. 92I think going forward it is important as an artist to have full disclosure. In the past, I've never disclosed what technologies I use to make a certain piece of art. In most cases, it was [00:14:00] obvious in context. 93I mostly use ProCreate on the iPad and Pixelmator on the Mac for digital art. I use Processing for generative art. I use Ableton Live for my music and so forth. 94But going forward I plan to fully disclose what AI and tools I use in making my art, including when I don't use any AI at all. At the end of my podcast, I'll disclose what AI tools I used, if any for that episode. 95I think from now on, so many people are going to be using AI in their daily lives, and it's going to be hard to distinguish whether someone's used AI in the work that they did. 96To me, that represents a real opportunity. Because the world's going to be flooded with content that was created by AI. And people are going to be seeking out art that was not created with AI. I think it's actually going to make that sort of art, the art created by an actual human, [00:15:00] more valuable. 97I think artists have an opportunity to use AI technology to become more creative, more expressive, and more empathetic. But artists need to push for control over how their works are being used. and they need to insist that any AI that they use fully disclose the sources. 98And I do think an artist needs to be very clear whether an art piece that they created was created by artificial intelligence, or if they just simply use AI tools to help them to create that artwork. I want to know that an art piece was created by a person, and I think the art world is pretty smart and will make distinctions fairly quickly about whether a piece of art that was generated by AI has any value. 99I'm using AI in my podcast production process. But ultimately, these are my words. These are my thoughts, and I'm using AI just simply to help me be a little bit more productive, a little bit [00:16:00] more creative, and a little bit more expressive, and that's where I find a comfortable balance in using AI in my creative process. 100How will you be using AI in the stuff that you make and what steps are you going to take to make sure that you maintain integrity in the work that you create? 101I myself think that this is a really fascinating topic and in particular because we are now at the moment in time when all of these AI tools are being released into the world and we are just starting to figure out how to use them and how to live with them. 102So, in preparing this episode, I consulted a number of different articles and YouTubes on this topic, and I've linked to them in the show notes. So please refer to the show [00:17:00] notes and take a look at these. I think you'll find them very interesting. 103And so, onto my disclosures. All the words in this episode are mine, except for some paraphrasing that I did from the Guardian article about Jaron Lanier. 104I did all of the post-production using the Descript tool, and that does use AI for transcribing my voice. And I also used ChatGPT to ask me some questions about this topic and that helped me to get to my first draft. 105The cover art that I'm using for this episode was created by an algorithm that I wrote specifically for this episode, and I assembled the cover art using Pixelmator on the Mac. 106The short melody that I use at the beginning and between segments is a Sonic Pi program called Play Pattern Fun, that is part of the Me Hack It Sonic Pi programming workshop.[00:18:00] 107That's it for this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. If you like these episodes, please consider subscribing to the Creative Shoofly wherever you get your podcasts. 108And that's it for now. Be well and be creative. 109â"><meta name="description" content="In this episode I explore Artificial Intelligence and some of the issues around artists using AI in their creative process. I hope you will enjoy hearing and thinking about these issues. 110Â 111Links For Further Reading and Viewing 112Tech guru Jaron Lanier: âThe danger isnât that AI destroys us. Itâs that it drives us insaneâ 113Bill Gates: The Age of AI Has Begun 114IBM Technology: What are Generative AI models? 115The ultimate list of AI tools for creators 116How to use ChatGPT to improve your creative process 117Generative AI for Makers: AI Has Truly Arrived â and Itâs Here to Help You Make and Craft 118Artificial Intelligence Art School Meltdown | The Looming Crisis 119Eric Schmidt talks about concerns around AI 120Â 121Links to books and websites mentioned in this podcast 122Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts, by Jaron Lanier 123You Are Not A Gadget, by Jaron Lanier 124Creative programming workshop with Sonic Pi 125ChatGPT 126DeepL Translator 127Descript 128Pixelmator 129ProCreate 130Hashtags #processing and #p5js 131Some of the above are affiliate links and I may earn a small commission from them. 132Â 133Transcript 134[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Creative Shoofly Podcast. I'm Thomas Beutel. In this episode, I ask myself, what do I do with all these AI tools that are becoming available? How should I use these tools in my creative process? And how do I maintain integrity as I do? 135These questions might be on your mind too, and I hope that I shed at least a little bit of light on the topic. 136I am recording this in March of 2023, and there's been an explosion of AI announcements. All of a sudden, AI is everywhere. Everyone seems to be talking about it, and it feels almost like it's being jammed on our throats. 137Yeah, we've been using Siri and Alexa and Hey Google for years now, and we know that recommendation algorithms have been limiting what we get to see on social platforms and in places like Netflix.[00:01:00] But while those services are a form of artificial intelligence, we were quickly jaded about how mediocre and dull they were. 138But the latest AIs come in the form of image generators like Stable Diffusion and chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT. And they seem lightyears ahead of those earlier tools. And scarier too. 139The AI image generators in particular caused quite a stir in the art community when they were introduced in 2021. Not only were these AI tools creating an image in minutes that would take an artist hours and days to create, but the tools were trained on images found on the internet, including images that artists had posted themselves. That felt a lot like theft. 140But these are clearly creative tools. And they have me thinking about creativity and the ethics involved. Can AI help me in any of my creative processes? And if they can, how should I be [00:02:00] using AI? 141The recent hubbub really started when the latest version of ChatGPT was launched in November of 2022. That was ChatGPT 3.5, and people took notice of its impressive capabilities. ChatGPT gained a hundred million users in just a few months. To put that into perspective, Gmail took five years to get to a hundred million users. 142In just the last few weeks, there have been a number of follow-on announcements. ChatGPT was upgraded to version four. Google announced their chatbot called Bard, and they're also integrating AI in their workspace tools. 143Microsoft released Bing Chat as an alternative way to find information with Bing. They also announced that they would be including an AI tool called Copilot in their office suite, meaning that you'll be able to have AI assist you when you're creating content in Word documents [00:03:00] and PowerPoint slides, and also when you're sending emails using Outlook. 144Many other companies announced that they're integrating AI generative tools into their existing products. Canva announced that they'
144re adding AI so that you can use text to describe a design, and it'll create a Facebook cover page, a YouTube profile picture, YouTube intro and outros, Instagram post and story and so forth, all from one text description. 145GitHub announced their co-pilot X that helps coders code faster. Ubisoft announced a dialogue generator for game development and Metahuman showed facial motion capture using just an iPhone, and this allows them to animate characters with very realistic facial expressions. 146With all these announcements, it does feel like AI is taking over at this point. Artists are asking themselves a lot of questions. 147How can I use these tools ethically and [00:04:00] morally? 148How will it affect the marketplace for art and creative products? 149Will it make me a dull person? 150These are all important questions. So, let's first talk about what AI really is, and then we can see how we can adapt any of it into our creative process. 151So, let's first get something out of the way. Artificial intelligence is not conscious intelligence. Some people describe it as an enhanced version of auto complete. I like that metaphor. All of these systems are trained on a large amount of data, and they create texts and images based on what they've been trained on. I like to think of AI as a statistics engine with some randomness thrown in. 152ChatGPT has been trained on 300 billion words from around the internet. From that training, it is able to guess what word comes next for a given prompt. Bing Chat is based on the same engine, [00:05:00] and Google's Bard is based on a similar large language model called LamMDA. 153Another example is the DeepL Translator. It translates from one language to another based on millions of translations it has been trained on. 154Other AI tools are similarly trained. Image generators like Midjourney, dall-E, and Stable Diffusion are trained on large numbers of images that have been captioned with text. They're able to generate new images based on text prompts. 155Transcription tools like Descript and Otter.ai, were trained on millions of voice samples to allow them to transcribe audio to text. Descript, PlayHT and others have text to speech capabilities that generate very realistic voices, again by being trained on millions of examples. 156All of these tools have been under development for many years, but they have now gotten to the point where they're quite good. And technology companies like [00:06:00] Canva and Adobe are rushing to incorporate them into the creativity products we use every day. 157So, these tools are now here and ready for us to use. 158The thing that has me thinking about the impact of AI is what Microsoft and Google recently announced. They both are incorporating chat-based AI tools into Microsoft 365 and Google workspace. These tools are targeted at the workplace, and that means that millions of people will soon be getting very comfortable prompting these AIs for answers about their businesses, and also to generate text for emails and presentations. 159AI generated content will become ubiquitous in a very short amount of time, and since it is in a business context, it will most likely not be marked as being generated. All of this will be widely accepted because the use of AI will increase productivity. Some estimates say that world GDP will increase by 7% over the next 10 [00:07:00] years. That's a massive amount! 160But what happens if I use AI to create an image that is based on someone else's intellectual property? How do I as an artist give credit or even payment if the AI tool doesn't even have the capability to tell me what the source was? 161I recently read a great Guardian interview with Jaron Lanier. He's a futurist, a technologist, an artist, and he's considered the godfather of virtual reality. He's been in the industry a long time. 162His take is the danger isn't that AI will destroy us. It's that it'll drive us insane. In the interview, Lanier says that he doesn't even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that the technology is actually intelligent. 163Just because a chatbot can pull information from millions of sources and express ideas in a language we can understand, that doesn't [00:08:00] make it better than us. 164Lanier's mission is to champion the human over the digital. In his book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts, he argues that the internet is making us dull and uncreative. His worry is that we'll use technology as agents of manipulation. We become mutually unintelligible because we are slaves to the algorithms that corral our attention into silos. 165So, he says that we have a responsibility to act morally and humanely. In spite of his view on what the internet has become, he believes that AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Bard could provide hope for the digital world. A good AI can open us to ideas and knowledge that we weren't seeking before. A well-designed chatbot would spark both curiosity and play.
166It could also keep track of the sources of information that it was trained on, and if the chatbot relied on something you created, [00:09:00] you could get paid for it. In a system where there is shared sense of responsibility and liability, everything works better. He calls it data dignity. 167In his book, You Are Not A Gadget, he said that the point of technology was to make the world more creative, expressive, empathetic, and interesting. He reminds us to remind ourselves of our humanity. 168What Jaron says is heartening to me. Like him, I do believe that the goal of technology is to help us be more expressive and more empathetic. I think we can use AI tools without compromising our humanity or our integrity. 169I've already been using Descript for three years now, taking advantage of its AI-based transcription to make audio editing much easier for me. Descript allows me to edit the text, and it edits the audio waveform for me based on those text edits. It's so much faster than fiddling with the waveform [00:10:00] directly. 170When I record my voice, I speak with a lot of ums and ahs. Descript automatically highlights all of those ums and ahs so that I can get rid of them with one click. 171Descript even has a voice generation feature called overdub. I've trained Descript with my own voice, and it allows me to replace words and phrases where I misspoke or I want to say something with more clarity, and I don't want to have to set up the microphone again to rerecord it. Descript generates the new text with my voice. 172When it comes to writing, however, like when I write a podcast script, I don't use AI to generate any of the words. These are all my own words. 173That said, I often will ask ChatGPT for a word or phrase. I'll say, âHey, what's a more precise word for this concept?â For example, I recently asked, âWhat is the Inc. Corp or Limited part of a company name called?â ChatGPT informed me that it was called the legal [00:11:00] designation. 174It's the sort of thing I once used Google for, and then I would need to follow a link. But ChatGPT gives me the answer right away, and it helps my writing be clearer. 175Another thing I do when I start a podcast script is to have ChatGPT ask me questions. I'll say, âI'm writing about this topic. What questions would you ask me if you were to interview me?â I find this a great way to jumpstart writing my first draft. I take those questions and either type out the answers or I just record the answers, and I use Descript's AI to transcribe them into text. 176It's a real time saver. It gets me to my first draft much more quickly than by starting with a blank page. 177Another way that I use ChatGPT is to critique my writing. I'll say, âHere's an idea that I'm trying to express. How well did I do?â ChatGPT at that point will usually [00:12:00] say, I did a great job. So not all that useful, but then I ask if I missed anything, and it will usually come up with a point or two that I hadn't thought of. 178For me, that's a godsend. It's like having a friend look over your work and make suggestions. I feel this has improved my writing quite a lot. 179Again, I'm not using AI to create any of the text, but it is making suggestions that I can then think about and write in my own words. 180As far as AI image generation, I don't find myself very interested in it. I did once use an AI image generator to help me with a scene that I was drawing in a comic because I needed to have a reference to draw to. 181So, I said, âShow me someone speaking at a podium with the audience in front of them,â and it created something good enough for me to then create my comic. The image I created was all mine, but the AI provided a reference. 182I think this idea of [00:13:00] references is a good way to take advantage of AI tools in the creative process. 183I do want to make a distinction about generative art that is created by writing an algorithm where I create the algorithm to make the art. That's not AI, and the algorithm is not trained on other artists' work. That's me thinking of a program to make and shape the image, and I enjoy that immensely because it's very challenging and creative to think of an algorithm and to figure out how to make the computer make the image that I'm imagining in my mind. 184If you're interested in seeing examples of non-AI generative art, look for the hashtag #processing or hashtag #p5js. I'll put links to them in the show notes. 185I think going forward it is important as an artist to have full disclosure. In the past, I've never disclosed what technologies I use to make a certain piece of art. In most cases, it was [00:14:00] obvious in context. 186I mostly use ProCreate on the iPad and Pixelmator on the Mac for digital art. I use Processing for generative art. I use Ableton Live for my music and so forth. 187But going forward I plan to fully disclose what AI and tools I use in making my art, including when I don't use any AI at all. At the end of my podcast, I'll disclose what AI tools I used, if any for that episode. 188I think from now on, so many people are going to be using AI in their daily lives, and it's going to be hard to distinguish whether someone's used AI in the work that they did. 189To me, that represents a real opportunity. Because the world's going to be flooded with content that was created by AI. And people are going to be seeking out art that was not created with AI. I think it's actually going to make that sort of art, the art created by an actual human, [00:15:00] more valuable. 190I think artists have an opportunity to use AI technology to become more creative, more expressive, and more empathetic. But artists need to push for control over how their works are being used. and they need to insist that any AI that they use fully disclose the sources. 191And I do think an artist needs to be very clear whether an art piece that they created was created by artificial intelligence, or if they just simply use AI tools to help them to create that artwork. I want to know that an art piece was created by a person, and I think the art world is pretty smart and will make distinctions fairly quickly about whether a piece of art that was generated by AI has any value. 192I'm using AI in my podcast production process. But ultimately, these are my words. These are my thoughts, and I'm using AI just simply to help me be a little bit more productive, a little bit [00:16:00] more creative, and a little bit more expressive, and that's where I find a comfortable balance in using AI in my creative process. 193How will you be using AI in the stuff that you make and what steps are you going to take to make sure that you maintain integrity in the work that you create? 194I myself think that this is a really fascinating topic and in particular because we are now at the moment in time when all of these AI tools are being released into the world and we are just starting to figure out how to use them and how to live with them. 195So, in preparing this episode, I consulted a number of different articles and YouTubes on this topic, and I've linked to them in the show notes. So please refer to the show [00:17:00] notes and take a look at these. I think you'll find them very interesting. 196And so, onto my disclosures. All the words in this episode are mine, except for some paraphrasing that I did from the Guardian article about Jaron Lanier. 197I did all of the post-production using the Descript tool, and that does use AI for transcribing my voice. And I also used ChatGPT to ask me some questions about this topic and that helped me to get to my first draft. 198The cover art that I'm using for this episode was created by an algorithm that I wrote specifically for this episode, and I assembled the cover art using Pixelmator on the Mac. 199The short melody that I use at the beginning and between segments is a Sonic Pi program called Play Pattern Fun, that is part of the Me Hack It Sonic Pi programming workshop.[00:18:00] 200That's it for this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. If you like these episodes, please consider subscribing to the Creative Shoofly wherever you get your podcasts. 201And that's it for now. Be well and be creative. 202â"><meta name="twitter:card" content="player"><meta name="twitter:site" content="@podbeancom">
202<meta name="twitter:url" content="https://creativeshoofly.com/e/should-i-ai/"><meta name="twitter:title" content="Should I A.I.? | The Creative Shoofly Podcast"><meta name="twitter:description" content="In this episode I explore Artificial Intelligence and some of the issues around artists using AI in their creative process. I hope you will enjoy hearing and thinking about these issues. 203Â 204Links For Further Reading and Viewing 205Tech guru Jaron Lanier: âThe danger isnât that AI destroys us. Itâs that it drives us insaneâ 206Bill Gates: The Age of AI Has Begun 207IBM Technology: What are Generative AI models? 208The ultimate list of AI tools for creators 209How to use ChatGPT to improve your creative process 210Generative AI for Makers: AI Has Truly Arrived â and Itâs Here to Help You Make and Craft 211Artificial Intelligence Art School Meltdown | The Looming Crisis 212Eric Schmidt talks about concerns around AI 213Â 214Links to books and websites mentioned in this podcast 215Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts, b
215y Jaron Lanier 216You Are Not A Gadget, by Jaron Lanier 217Creative programming workshop with Sonic Pi 218ChatGPT 219DeepL Translator 220Descript 221Pixelmator 222ProCreate 223Hashtags #processing and #p5js 224Some of the above are affiliate links and I may earn a small commission from them. 225Â 226Transcript 227[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Creative Shoofly Podcast. I'm Thomas Beutel. In this episode, I ask myself, what do I do with all these AI tools that are becoming available? How should I use these tools in my creative process? And how do I maintain integrity as I do? 228These questions might be on your mind too, and I hope that I shed at least a little bit of light on the topic. 229I am recording this in March of 2023, and there's been an explosion of AI announcements. All of a sudden, AI is everywhere. Everyone seems to be talking about it, and it feels almost like it's being jammed on our throats. 230Yeah, we've been using Siri and Alexa and Hey Google for years now, and we know that recommendation algorithms have been limiting what we get to see on social platforms and in places like Netflix.[00:01:00] But while those services are a form of artificial intelligence, we were quickly jaded about how mediocre and dull they were. 231But the latest AIs come in the form of image generators like Stable Diffusion and chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT. And they seem lightyears ahead of those earlier tools. And scarier too. 232The AI image generators in particular caused quite a stir in the art community when they were introduced in 2021. Not only were these AI tools creating an image in minutes that would take an artist hours and days to create, but the tools were trained on images found on the internet, including images that artists had posted themselves. That felt a lot like theft. 233But these are clearly creative tools. And they have me thinking about creativity and the ethics involved. Can AI help me in any of my creative processes? And if they can, how should I be [00:02:00] using AI? 234The recent hubbub really started when the latest version of ChatGPT was launched in November of 2022. That was ChatGPT 3.5, and people took notice of its impressive capabilities. ChatGPT gained a hundred million users in just a few months. To put that into perspective, Gmail took five years to get to a hundred million users. 235In just the last few weeks, there have been a number of follow-on announcements. ChatGPT was upgraded to version four. Google announced their chatbot called Bard, and they're also integrating AI in their workspace tools. 236Microsoft released Bing Chat as an alternative way to find information with Bing. They also announced that they would be including an AI tool called Copilot in their office suite, meaning that you'll be able to have AI assist you when you're creating content in Word documents [00:03:00] and PowerPoint slides, and also when you're sending emails using Outlook. 237Many other companies announced that they're integrating AI generative tools into their existing products. Canva announced that they're adding AI so that you can use text to describe a design, and it'll create a Facebook cover page, a YouTube profile picture, YouTube intro and outros, Instagram post and story and so forth, all from one text description. 238GitHub announced their co-pilot X that helps coders code faster. Ubisoft announced a dialogue generator for game development and Metahuman showed facial motion capture using just an iPhone, and this allows them to animate characters with very realistic facial expressions. 239With all these announcements, it does feel like AI is taking over at this point. Artists are asking themselves a lot of questions. 240How can I use these tools ethically and [00:04:00] morally? 241How will it affect the marketplace for art and creative products? 242Will it make me a dull person? 243These are all important questions. So, let's first talk about what AI really is, and then we can see how we can adapt any of it into our creative process. 244So, let's first get something out of the way. Artificial intelligence is not conscious intelligence. Some people describe it as an enhanced version of auto complete. I like that metaphor. All of these systems are trained on a large amount of data, and they create texts and images based on what they've been trained on. I like to think of AI as a statistics engine with some randomness thrown in. 245ChatGPT has been trained on 300 billion words from around the internet. From that training, it is able to guess what word comes next for a given prompt. Bing Chat is based on the same engine, [00:05:00] and Google's Bard is based on a similar large language model called LamMDA. 246Another example is the DeepL Translator. It translates from one language to another based on millions of translations it has been trained on. 247Other AI tools are similarly trained. Image generators like Midjourney, dall-E, and Stable Diffusion are trained on large numbers of images that have been captioned with text. They're able to generate new images based on text prompts. 248Transcription tools like Descript and Otter.ai, were trained on millions of voice samples to allow them to transcribe audio to text. Descript, PlayHT and others have text to speech capabilities that generate very realistic voices, again by being trained on millions of examples. 249All of these tools have been under development for many years, but they have now gotten to the point where they're quite good. And technology companies like [00:06:00] Canva and Adobe are rushing to incorporate them into the creativity products we use every day. 250So, these tools are now here and ready for us to use. 251The thing that has me thinking about the impact of AI is what Microsoft and Google recently announced. They both are incorporating chat-based AI tools into Microsoft 365 and Google workspace. The
251se tools are targeted at the workplace, and that means that millions of people will soon be getting very comfortable prompting these AIs for answers about their businesses, and also to generate text for emails and presentations. 252AI generated content will become ubiquitous in a very short amount of time, and since it is in a business context, it will most likely not be marked as being generated. All of this will be widely accepted because the use of AI will increase productivity. Some estimates say that world GDP will increase by 7% over the next 10 [00:07:00] years. That's a massive amount! 253But what happens if I use AI to create an image that is based on someone else's intellectual property? How do I as an artist give credit or even payment if the AI tool doesn't even have the capability to tell me what the source was? 254I recently read a great Guardian interview with Jaron Lanier. He's a futurist, a technologist, an artist, and he's considered the godfather of virtual reality. He's been in the industry a long time. 255His take is the danger isn't that AI will destroy us. It's that it'll drive us insane. In the interview, Lanier says that he doesn't even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that the technology is actually intelligent. 256Just because a chatbot can pull information from millions of sources and express ideas in a language we can understand, that doesn't [00:08:00] make it better than us. 257Lanier's mission is to champion the human over the digital. In his book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts, he argues that the internet is making us dull and uncreative. His worry is that we'll use technology as agents of manipulation. We become mutually unintelligible because we are slaves to the algorithms that corral our attention into silos. 258So, he says that we have a responsibility to act morally and humanely. In spite of his view on what the internet has become, he believes that AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Bard could provide hope for the digital world. A good AI can open us to ideas and knowledge that we weren't seeking before. A well-designed chatbot would spark both curiosity and play.
259It could also keep track of the sources of information that it was trained on, and if the chatbot relied on something you created, [00:09:00] you could get paid for it. In a system where there is shared sense of responsibility and liability, everything works better. He calls it data dignity. 260In his book, You Are Not A Gadget, he said that the point of technology was to make the world more creative, expressive, empathetic, and interesting. He reminds us to remind ourselves of our humanity. 261What Jaron says is heartening to me. Like him, I do believe that the goal of technology is to help us be more expressive and more empathetic. I think we can use AI tools without compromising our humanity or our integrity. 262I've already been using Descript for three years now, taking advantage of its AI-based transcription to make audio editing much easier for me. Descript allows me to edit the text, and it edits the audio waveform for me based on those text edits. It's so much faster than fiddling with the waveform [00:10:00] directly. 263When I record my voice, I speak with a lot of ums and ahs. Descript automatically highlights all of those ums and ahs so that I can get rid of them with one click. 264Descript even has a voice generation feature called overdub. I've trained Descript with my own voice, and it allows me to replace words and phrases where I misspoke or I want to say something with more clarity, and I don't want to have to set up the microphone again to rerecord it. Descript generates the new text with my voice. 265When it comes to writing, however, like when I write a podcast script, I don't use AI to generate any of the words. These are all my own words. 266That said, I often will ask ChatGPT for a word or phrase. I'll say, âHey, what's a more precise word for this concept?â For example, I recently asked, âWhat is the Inc. Corp or Limited part of a company name called?â ChatGPT informed me that it was called the legal [00:11:00] designation. 267It's the sort of thing I once used Google for, and then I would need to follow a link. But ChatGPT gives me the answer right away, and it helps my writing be clearer. 268Another thing I do when I start a podcast script is to have ChatGPT ask me questions. I'll say, âI'm writing about this topic. What questions would you ask me if you were to interview me?â I find this a great way to jumpstart writing my first draft. I take those questions and either type out the answers or I just record the answers, and I use Descript's AI to transcribe them into text. 269It's a real time saver. It gets me to my first draft much more quickly than by starting with a blank page. 270Another way that I use ChatGPT is to critique my writing. I'll say, âHere's an idea that I'm trying to express. How well did I do?â ChatGPT at that point will usually [00:12:00] say, I did a great job. So not all that useful, but then I ask if I missed anything, and it will usually come up with a point or two that I hadn't thought of. 271For me, that's a godsend. It's like having a friend look over your work and make suggestions. I feel this has improved my writing quite a lot. 272Again, I'm not using AI to create any of the text, but it is making suggestions that I can then think about and write in my own words. 273As far as AI image generation, I don't find myself very interested in it. I did once use an AI image generator to help me with a scene that I was drawing in a comic because I needed to have a reference to draw to. 274So, I said, âShow me someone speaking at a podium with the audience in front of them,â and it created something good enough for me to then create my comic. The image I created was all mine, but the AI provided a reference. 275I think this idea of [00:13:00] references is a good way to take advantage of AI tools in the creative process. 276I do want to make a distinction about generative art that is created by writing an algorithm where I create the algorithm to make the art. That's not AI, and the algorithm is not trained on other artists' work. That's me thinking of a program to make and shape the image, and I enjoy that immensely because it's very challenging and creative to think of an algorithm and to figure out how to make the computer make the image that I'm imagining in my mind. 277If you're interested in seeing examples of non-AI generative art, look for the hashtag #processing or hashtag #p5js. I'll put links to them in the show notes. 278I think going forward it is important as an artist to have full disclosure. In the past, I've never disclosed what technologies I use to make a certain piece of art. In most cases, it was [00:14:00] obvious in context. 279I mostly use ProCreate on the iPad and Pixelmator on the Mac for digital art. I use Processing for generative art. I use Ableton Live for my music and so forth. 280But going forward I plan to fully disclose what AI and tools I use in making my art, including when I don't use any AI at all. At the end of my podcast, I'll disclose what AI tools I used, if any for that episode. 281I think from now on, so many people are going to be using AI in their daily lives, and it's going to be hard to distinguish whether someone's used AI in the work that they did. 282To me, that represents a real opportunity. Because the world's going to be flooded with content that was created by AI. And people are going to be seeking out art that was not created with AI. I think it's actually going to make that sort of art, the art created by an actual human, [00:15:00] more valuable. 283I think artists have an opportunity to use AI technology to become more creative, more expressive, and more empathetic. But artists need to push for control over how their works are being used. and they need to insist that any AI that they use fully disclose the sources. 284And I do think an artist needs to be very clear whether an art piece that they created was created by artificial intelligence, or if they just simply use AI tools to help them to create that artwork. I want to know that an art piece was created by a person, and I think the art world is pretty smart and will make distinctions fairly quickly about whether a piece of art that was generated by AI has any value. 285I'm using AI in my podcast production process. But ultimately, these are my words. These are my thoughts, and I'm using AI just simply to help me be a little bit more productive, a little bit [00:16:00] more creative, and a little bit more expressive, and that's where I find a comfortable balance in using AI in my creative process. 286How will you be using AI in the stuff that you make and what steps are you going to take to make sure that you maintain integrity in the work that you create? 287I myself think that this is a really fascinating topic and in particular because we are now at the moment in time when all of these AI tools are being released into the world and we are just starting to figure out how to use them and how to live with them. 288So, in preparing this episode, I consulted a number of different articles and YouTubes on this topic, and I've linked to them in the show notes. So please refer to the show [00:17:00] notes and take a look at these. I think you'll find them very interesting. 289And so, onto my disclosures. All the words in this episode are mine, except for some paraphrasing that I did from the Guardian article about Jaron Lanier. 290I did all of the post-production using the Descript tool, and that does use AI for transcribing my voice. And I also used ChatGPT to ask me some questions about this topic and that helped me to get to my first draft. 291The cover art that I'm using for this episode was created by an algorithm that I wrote specifically for this episode, and I assembled the cover art using Pixelmator on the Mac. 292The short melody that I use at the beginning and between segments is a Sonic Pi program called Play Pattern Fun, that is part of the Me Hack It Sonic Pi programming workshop.[00:18:00] 293That's it for this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. If you like these episodes, please consider subscribing to the Creative Shoofly wherever you get your podcasts. 294And that's it for now. 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295<script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"https://schema.org/","@type":"PodcastEpisode","url":"/e/should-i-ai/","name":"Should I A.I.?","datePublished":"2023-03-31","description":"In this episode I explore Artificial Intelligence and some of the issues around artists using AI in their creative process. I hope you will enjoy hearing and thinking about these issues.\n \nLinks For Further Reading and Viewing\nTech guru Jaron Lanier: âThe danger isnât that AI destroys us. Itâs that it drives us insaneâ\nBill Gates: The Age of AI Has Begun\nIBM Technology: What are Generative AI models?\nThe ultimate list of AI tools for creators\nHow to use ChatGPT to improve your creative process\nGenerative AI for Makers: AI Has Truly Arrived â and Itâs Here to Help You Make and Craft\nArtificial Intelligence Art School Meltdown | The Looming Crisis\nEric Schmidt talks about concerns around AI\n \nLinks to books and websites mentioned in this podcast\nTen Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts, by Jaron Lanier\nYou Are Not A Gadget, by Jaron Lanier\nCreative programming workshop with Sonic Pi\nChatGPT\nDeepL Translator\nDescript\nPixelmator\nProCreate\nHashtags #processing and #p5js\nSome of the above are affiliate links and I may earn a small commission from them.\n \nTranscript\n[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Creative Shoofly Podcast. I'm Thomas Beutel. In this episode, I ask myself, what do I do with all these AI tools that are becoming available? How should I use these tools in my creative process? And how do I maintain integrity as I do?\nThese questions might be on your mind too, and I hope that I shed at least a little bit of light on the topic.\nI am recording this in March of 2023, and there's been an explosion of AI announcements. All of a sudden, AI is everywhere. Everyone seems to be talking about it, and it feels almost like it's being jammed on our throats.\nYeah, we've been using Siri and Alexa and Hey Google for years now, and we know that recommendation algorithms have been limiting what we get to see on social platforms and in places like Netflix.[00:01:00] But while those services are a form of artificial intelligence, we were quickly jaded about how mediocre and dull they were.\nBut the latest AIs come in the form of image generators like Stable Diffusion and chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT. And they seem lightyears ahead of those earlier tools. And scarier too.\nThe AI image generators in particular caused quite a stir in the art community when they were introduced in 2021. Not only were these AI tools creating an image in minutes that would take an artist hours and days to create, but the tools were trained on images found on the internet, including images that artists had posted themselves. That felt a lot like theft.\nBut these are clearly creative tools. And they have me thinking about creativity and the ethics involved. Can AI help me in any of my creative processes? And if they can, how should I be [00:02:00] using AI?\nThe recent hubbub really started when the latest version of ChatGPT was launched in November of 2022. That was ChatGPT 3.5, and people took notice of its impressive capabilities. ChatGPT gained a hundred million users in just a few months. To put that into perspective, Gmail took five years to get to a hundred million users.\nIn just the last few weeks, there have been a number of follow-on announcements. ChatGPT was upgraded to version four. Google announced their chatbot called Bard, and they're also integrating AI in their workspace tools.\nMicrosoft released Bing Chat as an alternative way to find information with Bing. They also announced that they would be including an AI tool called Copilot in their office suite, meaning that you'll be able to have AI assist you when you're creating content in Word documents [00:03:00] and PowerPoint slides, and also when you're sending emails using Outlook.\nMany other companies announced that they're integrating AI generative tools into their existing products. Canva announced that they're adding AI so that you can use text to de
295scribe a design, and it'll create a Facebook cover page, a YouTube profile picture, YouTube intro and outros, Instagram post and story and so forth, all from one text description.\nGitHub announced their co-pilot X that helps coders code faster. Ubisoft announced a dialogue generator for game development and Metahuman showed facial motion capture using just an iPhone, and this allows them to animate characters with very realistic facial expressions.\nWith all these announcements, it does feel like AI is taking over at this point. Artists are asking themselves a lot of questions.\nHow can I use these tools ethically and [00:04:00] morally?\nHow will it affect the marketplace for art and creative products?\nWill it make me a dull person?\nThese are all important questions. So, let's first talk about what AI really is, and then we can see how we can adapt any of it into our creative process.\nSo, let's first get something out of the way. Artificial intelligence is not conscious intelligence. Some people describe it as an enhanced version of auto complete. I like that metaphor. All of these systems are trained on a large amount of data, and they create texts and images based on what they've been trained on. I like to think of AI as a statistics engine with some randomness thrown in.\nChatGPT has been trained on 300 billion words from around the internet. From that training, it is able to guess what word comes next for a given prompt. Bing Chat is based on the same engine, [00:05:00] and Google's Bard is based on a similar large language model called LamMDA.\nAnother example is the DeepL Translator. It translates from one language to another based on millions of translations it has been trained on.\nOther AI tools are similarly trained. Image generators like Midjourney, dall-E, and Stable Diffusion are trained on large numbers of images that have been captioned with text. They're able to generate new images based on text prompts.\nTranscription tools like Descript and Otter.ai, were trained on millions of voice samples to allow them to transcribe audio to text. Descript, PlayHT and others have text to speech capabilities that generate very realistic voices, again by being trained on millions of examples.\nAll of these tools have been under development for many years, but they have now gotten to the point where they're quite good. And technology companies like [00:06:00] Canva and Adobe are rushing to incorporate them into the creativity products we use every day.\nSo, these tools are now here and ready for us to use.\nThe thing that has me thinking about the impact of AI is what Microsoft and Google recently announced. They both are incorporating chat-based AI tools into Microsoft 365 and Google workspace. These tools are targeted at the workplace, and that means that millions of people will soon be getting very comfortable prompting these AIs for answers about their businesses, and also to generate text for emails and presentations.\nAI generated content will become ubiquitous in a very short amount of time, and since it is in a business context, it will most likely not be marked as being generated. All of this will be widely accepted because the use of AI will increase productivity. Some estimates say that world GDP will increase by 7% over the next 10 [00:07:00] years. That's a massive amount!\nBut what happens if I use AI to create an image that is based on someone else's intellectual property? How do I as an artist give credit or even payment if the AI tool doesn't even have the capability to tell me what the source was?\nI recently read a great Guardian interview with Jaron Lanier. He's a futurist, a technologist, an artist, and he's considered the godfather of virtual reality. He's been in the industry a long time.\nHis take is the danger isn't that AI will destroy us. It's that it'll drive us insane. In the interview, Lanier says that he doesn't even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that the technology is actually intelligent.\nJust because a chatbot can pull information from millions of sources and express ideas in a language we can understand, that doesn't [00:08:00] make it better than us.\nLanier'
295s mission is to champion the human over the digital. In his book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts, he argues that the internet is making us dull and uncreative. His worry is that we'll use technology as agents of manipulation. We become mutually unintelligible because we are slaves to the algorithms that corral our attention into silos.\nSo, he says that we have a responsibility to act morally and humanely. In spite of his view on what the internet has become, he believes that AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Bard could provide hope for the digital world. A good AI can open us to ideas and knowledge that we weren't seeking before. A well-designed chatbot would spark both curiosity and play.\nIt could also keep track of the sources of information that it was trained on, and if the chatbot relied on something you created, [00:09:00] you could get paid for it. In a system where there is shared sense of responsibility and liability, everything works better. He calls it data dignity.\nIn his book, You Are Not A Gadget, he said that the point of technology was to make the world more creative, expressive, empathetic, and interesting. He reminds us to remind ourselves of our humanity.\nWhat Jaron says is heartening to me. Like him, I do believe that the goal of technology is to help us be more expressive and more empathetic. I think we can use AI tools without compromising our humanity or our integrity.\nI've already been using Descript for three years now, taking advantage of its AI-based transcription to make audio editing much easier for me. Descript allows me to edit the text, and it edits the audio waveform for me based on those text edits. It's so much faster than fiddling with the waveform [00:10:00] directly.\nWhen I record my voice, I speak with a lot of ums and ahs. Descript automatically highlights all of those ums and ahs so that I can get rid of them with one click.\nDescript even has a voice generation feature called overdub. I've trained Descript with my own voice, and it allows me to replace words and phrases where I misspoke or I want to say something with more clarity, and I don't want to have to set up the microphone again to rerecord it. Descript generates the new text with my voice.\nWhen it comes to writing, however, like when I write a podcast script, I don't use AI to generate any of the words. These are all my own words.\nThat said, I often will ask ChatGPT for a word or phrase. I'll say, âHey, what's a more precise word for this concept?â For example, I recently asked, âWhat is the Inc. Corp or Limited part of a company name called?â ChatGPT informed me that it was called the legal [00:11:00] designation.\nIt's the sort of thing I once used Google for, and then I would need to follow a link. But ChatGPT gives me the answer right away, and it helps my writing be clearer.\nAnother thing I do when I start a podcast script is to have ChatGPT ask me questions. I'll say, âI'm writing about this topic. What questions would you ask me if you were to interview me?â I find this a great way to jumpstart writing my first draft. I take those questions and either type out the answers or I just record the answers, and I use Descript's AI to transcribe them into text.\nIt's a real time saver. It gets me to my first draft much more quickly than by starting with a blank page.\nAnother way that I use ChatGPT is to critique my writing. I'll say, âHere's an idea that I'm trying to express. How well did I do?â ChatGPT at that point will usually [00:12:00] say, I did a great job. So not all that useful, but then I ask if I missed anything, and it will usually come up with a point or two that I hadn't thought of.\nFor me, that's a godsend. It's like having a friend look over your work and make suggestions. I feel this has improved my writing quite a lot.\nAgain, I'm not using AI to create any of the text, but it is making suggestions that I can then think about and write in my own words.\nAs far as AI image generation, I don't find myself very interested in it. I did once use an AI image generator to help me with a scene that I was drawing in a comic because I needed to have a reference to draw to.\nSo, I said, âShow me someone speaking at a podium with the audience in front of them,â and it created something good enough for me to then create my comic. The image I created was all mine, but the AI provided a reference.\nI think this idea of [00:13:00] references is a good way to take advantage of AI tools in the creative process.\nI do want to make a distinction about generative art that is created by writing an algorithm where I create the algorithm to make the art. That's not AI, and the algorithm is not trained on other artists' work. That's me thinking of a program to make and shape the image, and I enjoy that immensely because it's very challenging and creative to think of an algorithm and to figure out how to make the computer make the image that I'm imagining in my mind.\nIf you're interested in seeing examples of non-AI generative art, look for the hashtag #processing or hashtag #p5js. I'll put links to them in the show notes.\nI think going forward it is important as an artist to have full disclosure. In the past, I've never disclosed what technologies I use to make a certain piece of art. In most cases, it was [00:14:00] obvious in context.\nI mostly use ProCreate on the iPad and Pixelmator on the Mac for digital art. I use Processing for generative art. I use Ableton Live for my music and so forth.\nBut going forward I plan to fully disclose what AI and tools I use in making my art, including when I don't use any AI at all. At the end of my podcast, I'll disclose what AI tools I used, if any for that episode.\nI think from now on, so many people are going to be using AI in their daily lives, and it's going to be hard to distinguish whether someone's used AI in the work that they did.\nTo me, that represents a real opportunity. Because the world's going to be flooded with content that was created by AI. And people are going to be seeking out art that was not created with AI. I think it's actually going to make that sort of art, the art created by an actual human, [00:15:00] more valuable.\nI think artists have an opportunity to use AI technology to become more creative, more expressive, and more empathetic. But artists need to push for control over how their works are being used. and they need to insist that any AI that they use fully disclose the sources.\nAnd I do think an artist needs to be very clear whether an art piece that they created was created by artificial intelligence, or if they just simply use AI tools to help them to create that artwork. I want to know that an art piece was created by a person, and I think the art world is pretty smart and will make distinctions fairly quickly about whether a piece of art that was generated by AI has any value.\nI'm using AI in my podcast production process. But ultimately, these are my words. These are my thoughts, and I'm using AI just simply to help me be a little bit more productive, a little bit [00:16:00] more creative, and a little bit more expressive, and that's where I find a comfortable balance in using AI in my creative process.\nHow will you be using AI in the stuff that you make and what steps are you going to take to make sure that you maintain integrity in the work that you create?\nI myself think that this is a really fascinating topic and in particular because we are now at the moment in time when all of these AI tools are being released into the world and we are just starting to figure out how to use them and how to live with them.\nSo, in preparing this episode, I consulted a number of different articles and YouTubes on this topic, and I've linked to them in the show notes. So please refer to the show [00:17:00] notes and take a look at these. I think you'll find them very interesting.\nAnd so, onto my disclosures. All the words in this episode are mine, except for some paraphrasing that I did from the Guardian article about Jaron Lanier.\nI did all of the post-production using the Descript tool, and that does use AI for transcribing my voice. And I also used ChatGPT to ask me some questions about this topic and that helped me to get to my first draft.\nThe cover art that I'm using for this episode was created by an algorithm that I wrote specifically for this episode, and I assembled the cover art using Pixelmator on the Mac.\nThe short melody that I use at the beginning and between segments is a Sonic Pi program called Play Pattern Fun, that is part of the Me Hack It Sonic Pi programming workshop.[00:18:00]\nThat's it for this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. If you like these episodes, please consider subscribing to the Creative Shoofly wherever you get your podcasts.\nAnd that's it for now. 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style="font-size:14pt;">In this episode I explore Artificial Intelligence and some of the issues around artists using AI in their creative process. I hope you will enjoy hearing and thinking about these issues.</span></span></p> 308<p>Â </p> 309<p class="Script"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;"><strong>Links For Further Reading and Viewing</strong></span></p> 310<ul><li class="Script"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/23/tech-guru-jaron-lanier-the-danger-isnt-that-ai-destroys-us-its-that-it-drives-us-insane"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Tech guru Jaron Lanier: âThe danger isnât that AI destroys us. Itâs that it drives us insaneâ</span></a></li> 311<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bill Gates: The Age of AI Has Begun</a></span></li> 312<li class="Script"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfIUstzHs9A"><span style="font-size:14pt;">IBM Technology: What are Generative AI models?</span></a></li> 313<li class="Script"><a href="https://www.descript.com/blog/article/the-ultimate-list-of-ai-tools-for-creators%20"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The ultimate list of AI tools for creators</span></a></li> 314<li class="Script"><a href="https://www.descript.com/blog/article/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-improve-your-creative-process%20"><span style="font-size:14pt;">How to use ChatGPT to improve your creative process</span></a></li> 315<li class="Script"><a href="https://makezine.com/article/craft/fine-art/generative-ai-for-makers-ai-has-truly-arrived-and-its-here-to-help-you-make-and-craft/%20"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Generative AI for Makers: AI Has Truly Arrived â and Itâs Here to Help You Make and Craft</span></a></li> 316<li class="Script"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_5OXKMutWA"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Artificial Intelligence Art School Meltdown | The Looming Crisis</span></a></li> 317<li class="Script"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg3EchbCcA0%20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Eric Schmidt talks about concerns around AI</span></a></li> 318</ul><p>Â </p> 319<p><span style="font-size:18pt;"><strong>Links to books and websites mentioned in this podcast</strong></span></p> 320<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3MfOQ8W">Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts</a>, by Jaron Lanier</span></p> 321<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3nDMXc7">You Are Not A Gadget</a>, by Jaron Lanier</span></p> 322<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://sonic-pi.mehackit.org/">Creative programming workshop with Sonic Pi</a></span></p> 323<p><a href="https://chat.openai.com/chat"><span style="font-size:14pt;">ChatGPT</span></a></p> 324<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://www.deepl.com/translator">DeepL Translator</a></span></p> 325<p><a href="https://www.descript.com/"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Descript</span></a></p> 326<p><a href="https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Pixelmator</span></a></p> 327<p><a href="https://procreate.com/"><span style="font-size:14pt;">ProCreate</span></a></p> 328<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Hashtags <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/processing/">#processing</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/p5js/">#p5js</a></span></p> 329<p><em>Some of the above are affiliate links and I may earn a small commission from them.</em></p> 330<p>Â </p> 331<p class="Script"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18pt;"><strong>Transcript</strong></span></p> 332<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="color:#808080;">[00:00:00]</span> Hello and welcome to the Creative Shoofly Podcast. I'm Thomas Beutel. In this episode, I ask myself, what do I do with all these AI tools that are becoming available? How should I use these tools in my creative process? And how do I maintain integrity as I do?</span></p> 333<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">These questions might be on your mind too, and I hope that I shed at least a little bit of light on the topic.</span></p> 334<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I am recording this in March of 2023, and there's been an explosion of AI announcements. All of a sudden, AI is everywhere. Everyone seems to be talking about it, and it feels almost like it's being jammed on our throats.</span></p> 335<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Yeah, we've been using Siri and Alexa and Hey Google for years now, and we know that recommendation algorithms have been limiting what we get to see on social platforms and in places like Netflix.<span style="color:#808080;">[00:01:00]</span> But while those services are a form of artificial intelligence, we were quickly jaded about how mediocre and dull they were.</span></p> 336<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">But the latest AIs come in the form of image generators like Stable Diffusion and chatbots like <a href="https://chat.openai.com/chat">
336OpenAI's ChatGPT</a>. And they seem lightyears ahead of those earlier tools. And scarier too.</span></p> 337<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The AI image generators in particular caused quite a stir in the art community when they were introduced in 2021. Not only were these AI tools creating an image in minutes that would take an artist hours and days to create, but the tools were trained on images found on the internet, including images that artists had posted themselves. That felt a lot like theft.</span></p> 338<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">But these are clearly creative tools. And they have me thinking about creativity and the ethics involved. Can AI help me in any of my creative processes? And if they can, how should I be <span style="color:#808080;">[00:02:00]</span> using AI?</span></p> 339<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The recent hubbub really started when the latest version of ChatGPT was launched in November of 2022. That was ChatGPT 3.5, and people took notice of its impressive capabilities. ChatGPT gained a hundred million users in just a few months. To put that into perspective, Gmail took five years to get to a hundred million users.</span></p> 340<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">In just the last few weeks, there have been a number of follow-on announcements. ChatGPT was upgraded to version four. Google announced their chatbot called Bard, and they're also integrating AI in their workspace tools.</span></p> 341<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Microsoft released Bing Chat as an alternative way to find information with Bing. They also announced that they would be including an AI tool called Copilot in their office suite, meaning that you'll be able to have AI assist you when you're creating content in Word documents <span style="color:#808080;">[00:03:00]</span> and PowerPoint slides, and also when you're sending emails using Outlook.</span></p> 342<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Many other companies announced that they're integrating AI generative tools into their existing products. Canva announced that they're adding AI so that you can use text to describe a design, and it'll create a Facebook cover page, a YouTube profile picture, YouTube intro and outros, Instagram post and story and so forth, all from one text description.</span></p> 343<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">GitHub announced their co-pilot X that helps coders code faster. Ubisoft announced a dialogue generator for game development and Metahuman showed facial motion capture using just an iPhone, and this allows them to animate characters with very realistic facial expressions.</span></p> 344<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">With all these announcements, it does feel like AI is taking over at this point. Artists are asking themselves a lot of questions.</span></p> 345<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">How can I use these tools ethically and <span style="color:#808080;">[00:04:00]</span> morally?</span></p> 346<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">How will it affect the marketplace for art and creative products?</span></p> 347<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Will it make me a dull person?</span></p> 348<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">These are all important questions. So, let's first talk about what AI really is, and then we can see how we can adapt any of it into our creative process.</span></p> 349<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">So, let's first get something out of the way. Artificial intelligence is not conscious intelligence. Some people describe it as an enhanced version of auto complete. I like that metaphor. All of these systems are trained on a large amount of data, and they create texts and images based on what they've been trained on. I like to think of AI as a statistics engine with some randomness thrown in.</span></p> 350<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">ChatGPT has been trained on 300 billion words from around the internet. From that training, it is able to guess what word comes next for a given prompt. Bing Chat is based on the same engine, <span style="color:#808080;">[00:05:00]</span> and Google's Bard is based on a similar large language model called LamMDA.</sp
350an></p> 351<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Another example is the <a href="https://www.deepl.com/translator">DeepL Translator</a>. It translates from one language to another based on millions of translations it has been trained on.</span></p> 352<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Other AI tools are similarly trained. Image generators like Midjourney, dall-E, and Stable Diffusion are trained on large numbers of images that have been captioned with text. They're able to generate new images based on text prompts.</span></p> 353<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Transcription tools like <a href="https://www.descript.com/">Descript</a> and <a href="https://otter.ai">Otter.ai</a>, were trained on millions of voice samples to allow them to transcribe audio to text. Descript, <a href="https://play.ht">PlayHT</a> and others have text to speech capabilities that generate very realistic voices, again by being trained on millions of examples.</span></p> 354<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">All of these tools have been under development for many years, but they have now gotten to the point where they're quite good. And technology companies like <span style="color:#808080;">[00:06:00]</span> Canva and Adobe are rushing to incorporate them into the creativity products we use every day.</span></p> 355<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">So, these tools are now here and ready for us to use.</span></p> 356<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The thing that has me thinking about the impact of AI is what Microsoft and Google recently announced. They both are incorporating chat-based AI tools into Microsoft 365 and Google workspace. These tools are targeted at the workplace, and that means that millions of people will soon be getting very comfortable prompting these AIs for answers about their businesses, and also to generate text for emails and presentations.</span></p> 357<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">AI generated content will become ubiquitous in a very short amount of time, and since it is in a business context, it will most likely not be marked as being generated. All of this will be widely accepted because the use of AI will increase productivity. Some estimates say that world GDP will increase by 7% over the next 10 <span style="color:#808080;">[00:07:00]</span> years. That's a massive amount!</span></p> 358<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">But what happens if I use AI to create an image that is based on someone else's intellectual property? How do I as an artist give credit or even payment if the AI tool doesn't even have the capability to tell me what the source was?</span></p> 359<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I recently read a great Guardian interview with Jaron Lanier. He's a futurist, a technologist, an artist, and he's considered the godfather of virtual reality. He's been in the industry a long time.</span></p> 360<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">His take is the danger isn't that AI will destroy us. It's that it'll drive us insane. In the interview, Lanier says that he doesn't even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that the technology is actually intelligent.</span></p> 361<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Just because a chatbot can pull information from millions of sources and express ideas in a language we can understand, that doesn't <span style="color:#808080;">[00:08:00]</span> make it better than us.</span></p> 362<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Lanier's mission is to champion the human over the digital. In his book, <a href="https://amzn.to/3MfOQ8W">Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts</a>, he argues that the internet is making us dull and uncreative. His worry is that we'll use technology as agents of manipulation. We become mutually unintelligible because we are slaves to the algorithms that corral our attention into silos.</span></p> 363<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">So, he says that we have a responsibility to act morally and humanely. In spite of his view on what the internet has become, he believes that AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Bard could provide hope for the digital world. A good AI can open us to ideas and knowledge that we weren't seeking before. A well-designed chatbot would spark both curiosity and play.</span></p> 364<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">It could also keep track of the sources of information that it was trained on, and if the chatbot relied on something you created, <span style="color:#808080;">[00:09:00]</span> you could get paid for it. In a system where there is shared sense of responsibility and liability, everything works better. He calls it data dignity.</span></p> 365<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">In his book, <a href="https://amzn.to/3nDMXc7">You Are Not A Gadget</a>, he said that the point of technology was to make the world more creative, expressive, empathetic, and interesting. He reminds us to remind ourselves of our humanity.</span></p> 366<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">What Jaron says is heartening to me. Like him, I do believe that the goal of technology is to help us be more expressive and more empathetic. I think we can use AI tools without compromising our humanity or our integrity.</span></p> 367<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I've already been using Descript for three years now, taking advantage of its AI-based transcription to make audio editing much easier for me. Descript allows me to edit the text, and it edits the audio waveform for me based on those text edits. It's so much faster than fiddling with the waveform <sp
367an style="color:#808080;">[00:10:00]</span> directly.</span></p> 368<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">When I record my voice, I speak with a lot of ums and ahs. Descript automatically highlights all of those ums and ahs so that I can get rid of them with one click.</span></p> 369<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Descript even has a voice generation feature called overdub. I've trained Descript with my own voice, and it allows me to replace words and phrases where I misspoke or I want to say something with more clarity, and I don't want to have to set up the microphone again to rerecord it. Descript generates the new text with my voice.</span></p> 370<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">When it comes to writing, however, like when I write a podcast script, I don't use AI to generate any of the words. These are all my own words.</span></p> 371<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">That said, I often will ask ChatGPT for a word or phrase. I'll say, âHey, what's a more precise word for this concept?â For example, I recently asked, âWhat is the Inc. Corp or Limited part of a company name called?â ChatGPT informed me that it was called the legal <span style="color:#808080;">[00:11:00]</span> designation.</span></p> 372<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">It's the sort of thing I once used Google for, and then I would need to follow a link. But ChatGPT gives me the answer right away, and it helps my writing be clearer.</span></p> 373<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Another thing I do when I start a podcast script is to have ChatGPT ask me questions. I'll say, âI'm writing about this topic. What questions would you ask me if you were to interview me?â I find this a great way to jumpstart writing my first draft. I take those questions and either type out the answers or I just record the answers, and I use Descript's AI to transcribe them into text.</span></p> 374<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">It's a real time saver. It gets me to my first draft much more quickly than by starting with a blank page.</span></p> 375<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Another way that I use ChatGPT is to critique my writing. I'll say, âHere's an idea that I'm trying to express. How well did I do?â ChatGPT at that point will usually <span style="color:#808080;">[00:12:00]</span> say, I did a great job. So not all that useful, but then I ask if I missed anything, and it will usually come up with a point or two that I hadn't thought of.</span></p> 376<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">For me, that's a godsend. It's like having a friend look over your work and make suggestions. I feel this has improved my writing quite a lot.</span></p> 377<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Again, I'm not using AI to create any of the text, but it is making suggestions that I can then think about and write in my own words.</span></p> 378<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">As far as AI image generation, I don't find myself very interested in it. I did once use an AI image generator to help me with a scene that I was drawing in a comic because I needed to have a reference to draw to.</span></p> 379<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">So, I said, âShow me someone speaking at a podium with the audience in front of them,â and it created something good enough for me to then create my comic. The image I created was all mine, but the AI provided a reference.</span></p> 380<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I think this idea of <span style="color:#808080;">[00:13:00]</span> references is a good way to take advantage of AI tools in the creative process.</span></p> 381<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I do want to make a distinction about generative art that is created by writing an algorithm where I create the algorithm to make the art. That's not AI, and the algorithm is not trained on other artists' work. That's me thinking of a program to make and shape the image, and I enjoy that immensely because it's very challenging and creative to think of an algorithm and to figure out how to make the computer make the image that I'm imagining in my mind.</span></p> 382<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">If you're interested in seeing examples of non-AI generative art, look for the hashtag <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/processing/">#processing</a> or hashtag <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/p5js/">#p5js</a>. I'll put links to them in the show notes.</span></p> 383<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I think going forward it is important as an artist to have full disclosure. In the past, I've never disclosed what technologies I use to make a certain piece of art. In most cases, it was <span style="color:#808080;">[00:14:00]</span> obvious in context.</span></p> 384<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I mostly use <a href="https://procreate.com/">ProCreate</a> on the iPad and <a href="https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/">Pixelmator</a> on the Mac for digital art. I use <a href="https://processing.org/">Processing</a> for generative art. I use Ableton Live for my music and so forth.</span></p> 385<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">But going forward I plan to fully disclose what AI and tools I use in making my art, including when I don't use any AI at all. At the end of my podcast, I'll disclose what AI tools I used, if any for that episode.</sp
385an></p> 386<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I think from now on, so many people are going to be using AI in their daily lives, and it's going to be hard to distinguish whether someone's used AI in the work that they did.</span></p> 387<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">To me, that represents a real opportunity. Because the world's going to be flooded with content that was created by AI. And people are going to be seeking out art that was not created with AI. I think it's actually going to make that sort of art, the art created by an actual human, <span style="color:#808080;">[00:15:00]</span> more valuable.</span></p> 388<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I think artists have an opportunity to use AI technology to become more creative, more expressive, and more empathetic. But artists need to push for control over how their works are being used. and they need to insist that any AI that they use fully disclose the sources.</span></p> 389<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">And I do think an artist needs to be very clear whether an art piece that they created was created by artificial intelligence, or if they just simply use AI tools to help them to create that artwork. I want to know that an art piece was created by a person, and I think the art world is pretty smart and will make distinctions fairly quickly about whether a piece of art that was generated by AI has any value.</span></p> 390<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I'm using AI in my podcast production process. But ultimately, these are my words. These are my thoughts, and I'm using AI just simply to help me be a little bit more productive, a little bit <span style="color:#808080;">[00:16:00]</span> more creative, and a little bit more expressive, and that's where I find a comfortable balance in using AI in my creative process.</span></p> 391<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">How will you be using AI in the stuff that you make and what steps are you going to take to make sure that you maintain integrity in the work that you create?</span></p> 392<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I myself think that this is a really fascinating topic and in particular because we are now at the moment in time when all of these AI tools are being released into the world and we are just starting to figure out how to use them and how to live with them.</span></p> 393<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">So, in preparing this episode, I consulted a number of different articles and YouTubes on this topic, and I've linked to them in the show notes. So please refer to the show <span style="color:#808080;">[00:17:00]</span> notes and take a look at these. I think you'll find them very interesting.</span></p> 394<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">And so, onto my disclosures. All the words in this episode are mine, except for some paraphrasing that I did from the Guardian article about Jaron Lanier.</span></p> 395<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I did all of the post-production using the Descript tool, and that does use AI for transcribing my voice. And I also used ChatGPT to ask me some questions about this topic and that helped me to get to my first draft.</span></p> 396<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The cover art that I'm using for this episode was created by an algorithm that I wrote specifically for this episode, and I assembled the cover art using Pixelmator on the Mac.</span></p> 397<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The short melody that I use at the beginning and between segments is a Sonic Pi program called <a href="https://sonic-pi.mehackit.org/exercises/en/11-templates/06-play-pattern-fun.html">Play Pattern Fun</a>, that is part of the <a href="https://sonic-pi.mehackit.org/">Me Hack It Sonic Pi programming workshop</a>.<span style="color:#808080;">[00:18:00]</span></span></p> 398<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">That's it for this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. If you like these episodes, please consider subscribing to the Creative Shoofly wherever you get your podcasts.</span></p> 399<p class="Script"><span style="font-size:14pt;">And that's it for now. 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I'm Thomas Beutel. In this episode, I ask myself, what do I do with all these AI tools that are becoming available? How should I use these tools in my creative process? And how do I maintain integrity as I do?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThese questions might be on your mind too, and I hope that I shed at least a little bit of light on the topic.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI am recording this in March of 2023, and there's been an explosion of AI announcements. All of a sudden, AI is everywhere. 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And if they can, how should I be \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:02:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E using AI?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThe recent hubbub really started when the latest version of ChatGPT was launched in November of 2022. That was ChatGPT 3.5, and people took notice of its impressive capabilities. ChatGPT gained a hundred million users in just a few months. To put that into perspective, Gmail took five years to get to a hundred million users.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIn just the last few weeks, there have been a number of follow-on announcements. ChatGPT was upgraded to version four. Google announced their chatbot called Bard, and they're also integrating AI in their workspace tools.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EMicrosoft released Bing Chat as an alternative way to find information with Bing. They also announced that they would be including an AI tool called Copilot in their office suite, meaning that you'll be able to have AI assist you when you're creating content in Word documents \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:03:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E and PowerPoint slides, and also when you're sending emails using Outlook.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EMany other companies announced that they're integrating AI generative tools into their existing products. Canva announced that they're adding AI so that you can use text to de
402scribe a design, and it'll create a Facebook cover page, a YouTube profile picture, YouTube intro and outros, Instagram post and story and so forth, all from one text description.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EGitHub announced their co-pilot X that helps coders code faster. Ubisoft announced a dialogue generator for game development and Metahuman showed facial motion capture using just an iPhone, and this allows them to animate characters with very realistic facial expressions.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWith all these announcements, it does feel like AI is taking over at this point. Artists are asking themselves a lot of questions.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EHow can I use these tools ethically and \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:04:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E morally?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EHow will it affect the marketplace for art and creative products?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWill it make me a dull person?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThese are all important questions. So, let's first talk about what AI really is, and then we can see how we can adapt any of it into our creative process.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, let's first get something out of the way. Artificial intelligence is not conscious intelligence. Some people describe it as an enhanced version of auto complete. I like that metaphor. All of these systems are trained on a large amount of data, and they create texts and images based on what they've been trained on. I like to think of AI as a statistics engine with some randomness thrown in.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EChatGPT has been trained on 300 billion words from around the internet. From that training, it is able to guess what word comes next for a given prompt. Bing Chat is based on the same engine, \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:05:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E and Google's Bard is based on a similar large language model called LamMDA.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnother example is the \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.deepl.com\u002Ftranslator\\\"\u003EDeepL Translator\u003C\u002Fa\u003E. It translates from one language to another based on millions of translations it has been trained on.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EOther AI tools are similarly trained. Image generators like Midjourney, dall-E, and Stable Diffusion are trained on large numbers of images that have been captioned with text. They're able to generate new images based on text prompts.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ETranscription tools like \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.descript.com\u002F\\\"\u003EDescript\u003C\u002Fa\u003E and \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fotter.ai\\\"\u003EOtter.ai\u003C\u002Fa\u003E, were trained on millions of voice samples to allow them to transcribe audio to text. Descript, \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fplay.ht\\\"\u003EPlayHT\u003C\u002Fa\u003E and others have text to speech capabilities that generate very realistic voices, again by being trained on millions of examples.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAll of these tools have been under development for many years, but they have now gotten to the point where they're quite good. And technology companies like \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:06:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E Canva and Adobe are rushing to incorporate them into the creativity products we use every day.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, these tools are now here and ready for us to use.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThe thing that has me thinking about the impact of AI is what Microsoft and Google recently announced. They both are incorporating chat-based AI tools into Microsoft 365 and Google workspace. The
402se tools are targeted at the workplace, and that means that millions of people will soon be getting very comfortable prompting these AIs for answers about their businesses, and also to generate text for emails and presentations.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAI generated content will become ubiquitous in a very short amount of time, and since it is in a business context, it will most likely not be marked as being generated. All of this will be widely accepted because the use of AI will increase productivity. Some estimates say that world GDP will increase by 7% over the next 10 \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:07:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E years. That's a massive amount!\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EBut what happens if I use AI to create an image that is based on someone else's intellectual property? How do I as an artist give credit or even payment if the AI tool doesn't even have the capability to tell me what the source was?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI recently read a great Guardian interview with Jaron Lanier. He's a futurist, a technologist, an artist, and he's considered the godfather of virtual reality. He's been in the industry a long time.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EHis take is the danger isn't that AI will destroy us. It's that it'll drive us insane. In the interview, Lanier says that he doesn't even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that the technology is actually intelligent.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EJust because a chatbot can pull information from millions of sources and express ideas in a language we can understand, that doesn't \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:08:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E make it better than us.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ELanier's mission is to champion the human over the digital. In his book, \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F3MfOQ8W\\\"\u003ETen Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts\u003C\u002Fa\u003E, he argues that the internet is making us dull and uncreative. His worry is that we'll use technology as agents of manipulation. We become mutually unintelligible because we are slaves to the algorithms that corral our attention into silos.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, he says that we have a responsibility to act morally and humanely. In spite of his view on what the internet has become, he believes that AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Bard could provide hope for the digital world. A good AI can open us to ideas and knowledge that we weren't seeking before. A well-designed chatbot would spark both curiosity and play.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIt could also keep track of the sources of information that it was trained on, and if the chatbot relied on something you created, \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:09:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E you could get paid for it. In a system where there is shared sense of responsibility and liability, everything works better. He calls it data dignity.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIn his book, \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F3nDMXc7\\\"\u003EYou Are Not A Gadget\u003C\u002Fa\u003E, he said that the point of technology was to make the world more creative, expressive, empathetic, and interesting. He reminds us to remind ourselves of our humanity.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWhat Jaron says is heartening to me. Like him, I do believe that the goal of technology is to help us be more expressive and more empathetic. I think we can use AI tools without compromising our humanity or our integrity.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI've already been using Descript for three years now, taking advantage of its AI-based transcription to make audio editing much easier for me. Descript allows me to edit the text, and it edits the audio waveform for me based on those text edits. It's so much faster than fiddling with the waveform \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:10:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E directly.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWhen I record my voice, I speak with a lot of ums and ahs. Descript automatically highlights all of those ums and ahs so that I can get rid of them with one click.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EDescript even has a voice generation feature called overdub. I've trained Descript with my own voice, and it allows me to replace words and phrases where I misspoke or I want to say something with more clarity, and I don't want to have to set up the microphone again to rerecord
402it. Descript generates the new text with my voice.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWhen it comes to writing, however, like when I write a podcast script, I don't use AI to generate any of the words. These are all my own words.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThat said, I often will ask ChatGPT for a word or phrase. I'll say, âHey, what's a more precise word for this concept?â For example, I recently asked, âWhat is the Inc. Corp or Limited part of a company name called?â ChatGPT informed me that it was called the legal \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:11:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E designation.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIt's the sort of thing I once used Google for, and then I would need to follow a link. But ChatGPT gives me the answer right away, and it helps my writing be clearer.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnother thing I do when I start a podcast script is to have ChatGPT ask me questions. I'll say, âI'm writing about this topic. What questions would you ask me if you were to interview me?â I find this a great way to jumpstart writing my first draft. I take those questions and either type out the answers or I just record the answers, and I use Descript's AI to transcribe them into text.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIt's a real time saver. It gets me to my first draft much more quickly than by starting with a blank page.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnother way that I use ChatGPT is to critique my writing. I'll say, âHere's an idea that I'm trying to express. How well did I do?â ChatGPT at that point will usually \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:12:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E say, I did a great job. So not all that useful, but then I ask if I missed anything, and it will usually come up with a point or two that I hadn't thought of.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EFor me, that's a godsend. It's like having a friend look over your work and make suggestions. I feel this has improved my writing quite a lot.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAgain, I'm not using AI to create any of the text, but it is making suggestions that I can then think about and write in my own words.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAs far as AI image generation, I don't find myself very interested in it. I did once use an AI image generator to help me with a scene that I was drawing in a comic because I needed to have a reference to draw to.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, I said, âShow me someone speaking at a podium with the audience in front of them,â and it created something good enough for me to then create my comic. The image I created was all mine, but the AI provided a reference.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI think this idea of \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:13:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E references is a good way to take advantage of AI tools in the creative process.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI do want to make a distinction about generative art that is created by writing an algorithm where I create the algorithm to make the art. That's not AI, and the algorithm is not trained on other artists' work. That's me thinking of a program to make and shape the image, and I enjoy that immensely because it's very challenging and creative to think of an algorithm and to figure out how to make the computer make the image that I'm imagining in my mind.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIf you're interested in seeing examples of non-AI generative art, look for the hashtag \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fexplore\u002Ftags\u002Fprocessing\u002F\\\"\u003E#processing\u003C\u002Fa\u003E or hashtag \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fexplore\u002Ftags\u002Fp5js\u002F\\\"\u003E#p5js\u003C\u002Fa\u003E. I'll put links to them in the show notes.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI think going forward it is important as an artist to have full disclosure. In the past, I've never disclosed what technologies I use to make a certain piece of art. In most cases, it was \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:14:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E obvious in context.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI mostly use \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fprocreate.com\u002F\\\"\u003EProCreate\u003C\u002Fa\u003E on the iPad and \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pixelmator.com\u002Fpro\u002F\\\"\u003EPixelmator\u003C\u002Fa\u003E on the Mac for digital art. I use \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fprocessing.org\u002F\\\"\u003EProcessing\u003C\u002Fa\u003E for generative art. I use Ableton Live for my music and so forth.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EBut going forward I plan to fully disclose what AI and tools I use in making my art, including when I don't use any AI at all. At the end of my podcast, I'll disclose what AI tools I used, if any for that episode.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI think from now on, so many people are going to be using AI in their daily lives, and it's going to be hard to distinguish whether someone's used AI in the work that they did.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ETo me, that represents a real opportunity. Because the world's going to be flooded with content that was created by AI. And people are going to be seeking out art that was not created with AI. I think it's actually going to make that sort of art, the art created by an actual human, \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:15:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E more valuable.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI think artists have an opportunity to use AI technology to become more creative, more expressive, and more empathetic. But artists need to push for control over how their works are being used. and they need to insist that any AI that they use fully disclose the sources.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnd I do think an artist needs to be very clear whether an art piece that they created was created by artificial intelligence, or if they just simply use AI tools to help them to create that artwork. I want to know that an art piece was created by a person, and I think the art world is pretty smart and will make distinctions fairly quickly about whether a piece of art that was generated by AI has any value.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI'm using AI in my podcast production process. But ultimately, these are my words. These are my thoughts, and I'm using AI just simply to help me be a little bit more productive, a little bit \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:16:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E more creative, and a little bit more expressive, and that's where I find a comfortable balance in using AI in my creative process.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EHow will you be using AI in the stuff that you make and what steps are you going to take to make sure that you maintain integrity in the work that you create?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI myself think that this is a really fascinating topic and in particular because we are now at the moment in time when all of these AI tools are being released into the world and we are just starting to figure out how to use them and how to live with them.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, in preparing this episode, I consulted a number of different articles and YouTubes on this topic, and I've linked to them in the show notes. So please refer to the show \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:17:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E notes and take a look at these. I think you'll find them very interesting.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnd so, onto my disclosures. All the words in this episode are mine, except for some paraphrasing that I did from the Guardian article about Jaron Lanier.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI did all of the post-production using the Descript tool, and that does use AI for transcribing my voice. 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I'm Thomas Beutel. In this episode, I ask myself, what do I do with all these AI tools that are becoming available? How should I use these tools in my creative process? And how do I maintain integrity as I do?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThese questions might be on your mind too, and I hope that I shed at least a little bit of light on the topic.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI am recording this in March of 2023, and there's been an explosion of AI announcements. All of a sudden, AI is everywhere. 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And if they can, how should I be \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:02:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E using AI?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThe recent hubbub really started when the latest version of ChatGPT was launched in November of 2022. That was ChatGPT 3.5, and people took notice of its impressive capabilities. ChatGPT gained a hundred million users in just a few months. To put that into perspective, Gmail took five years to get to a hundred million users.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIn just the last few weeks, there have been a number of follow-on announcements. ChatGPT was upgraded to version four. Google announced their chatbot called Bard, and they're also integrating AI in their workspace tools.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EMicrosoft released Bing Chat as an alternative way to find information with Bing. They also announced that they would be including an AI tool called Copilot in their office suite, meaning that you'll be able to have AI assist you when you're creating content in Word documents \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:03:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E and PowerPoint slides, and also when you're sending emails using Outlook.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EMany other companies announced that they're integrating AI generative tools into their existing products. Canva announced that they're adding AI so that you can use text to de
402scribe a design, and it'll create a Facebook cover page, a YouTube profile picture, YouTube intro and outros, Instagram post and story and so forth, all from one text description.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EGitHub announced their co-pilot X that helps coders code faster. Ubisoft announced a dialogue generator for game development and Metahuman showed facial motion capture using just an iPhone, and this allows them to animate characters with very realistic facial expressions.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWith all these announcements, it does feel like AI is taking over at this point. Artists are asking themselves a lot of questions.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EHow can I use these tools ethically and \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:04:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E morally?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EHow will it affect the marketplace for art and creative products?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWill it make me a dull person?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThese are all important questions. So, let's first talk about what AI really is, and then we can see how we can adapt any of it into our creative process.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, let's first get something out of the way. Artificial intelligence is not conscious intelligence. Some people describe it as an enhanced version of auto complete. I like that metaphor. All of these systems are trained on a large amount of data, and they create texts and images based on what they've been trained on. I like to think of AI as a statistics engine with some randomness thrown in.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EChatGPT has been trained on 300 billion words from around the internet. From that training, it is able to guess what word comes next for a given prompt. Bing Chat is based on the same engine, \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:05:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E and Google's Bard is based on a similar large language model called LamMDA.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnother example is the \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.deepl.com\u002Ftranslator\\\"\u003EDeepL Translator\u003C\u002Fa\u003E. It translates from one language to another based on millions of translations it has been trained on.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EOther AI tools are similarly trained. Image generators like Midjourney, dall-E, and Stable Diffusion are trained on large numbers of images that have been captioned with text. They're able to generate new images based on text prompts.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ETranscription tools like \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.descript.com\u002F\\\"\u003EDescript\u003C\u002Fa\u003E and \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fotter.ai\\\"\u003EOtter.ai\u003C\u002Fa\u003E, were trained on millions of voice samples to allow them to transcribe audio to text. Descript, \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fplay.ht\\\"\u003EPlayHT\u003C\u002Fa\u003E and others have text to speech capabilities that generate very realistic voices, again by being trained on millions of examples.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAll of these tools have been under development for many years, but they have now gotten to the point where they're quite good. And technology companies like \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:06:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E Canva and Adobe are rushing to incorporate them into the creativity products we use every day.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, these tools are now here and ready for us to use.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThe thing that has me thinking about the impact of AI is what Microsoft and Google recently announced. They both are incorporating chat-based AI tools into Microsoft 365 and Google workspace. The
402se tools are targeted at the workplace, and that means that millions of people will soon be getting very comfortable prompting these AIs for answers about their businesses, and also to generate text for emails and presentations.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAI generated content will become ubiquitous in a very short amount of time, and since it is in a business context, it will most likely not be marked as being generated. All of this will be widely accepted because the use of AI will increase productivity. Some estimates say that world GDP will increase by 7% over the next 10 \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:07:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E years. That's a massive amount!\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EBut what happens if I use AI to create an image that is based on someone else's intellectual property? How do I as an artist give credit or even payment if the AI tool doesn't even have the capability to tell me what the source was?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI recently read a great Guardian interview with Jaron Lanier. He's a futurist, a technologist, an artist, and he's considered the godfather of virtual reality. He's been in the industry a long time.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EHis take is the danger isn't that AI will destroy us. It's that it'll drive us insane. In the interview, Lanier says that he doesn't even like the term artificial intelligence, objecting to the idea that the technology is actually intelligent.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EJust because a chatbot can pull information from millions of sources and express ideas in a language we can understand, that doesn't \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:08:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E make it better than us.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ELanier's mission is to champion the human over the digital. In his book, \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F3MfOQ8W\\\"\u003ETen Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts\u003C\u002Fa\u003E, he argues that the internet is making us dull and uncreative. His worry is that we'll use technology as agents of manipulation. We become mutually unintelligible because we are slaves to the algorithms that corral our attention into silos.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, he says that we have a responsibility to act morally and humanely. In spite of his view on what the internet has become, he believes that AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Bard could provide hope for the digital world. A good AI can open us to ideas and knowledge that we weren't seeking before. A well-designed chatbot would spark both curiosity and play.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIt could also keep track of the sources of information that it was trained on, and if the chatbot relied on something you created, \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:09:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E you could get paid for it. In a system where there is shared sense of responsibility and liability, everything works better. He calls it data dignity.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIn his book, \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F3nDMXc7\\\"\u003EYou Are Not A Gadget\u003C\u002Fa\u003E, he said that the point of technology was to make the world more creative, expressive, empathetic, and interesting. He reminds us to remind ourselves of our humanity.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWhat Jaron says is heartening to me. Like him, I do believe that the goal of technology is to help us be more expressive and more empathetic. I think we can use AI tools without compromising our humanity or our integrity.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI've already been using Descript for three years now, taking advantage of its AI-based transcription to make audio editing much easier for me. Descript allows me to edit the text, and it edits the audio waveform for me based on those text edits. It's so much faster than fiddling with the waveform \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:10:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E directly.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWhen I record my voice, I speak with a lot of ums and ahs. Descript automatically highlights all of those ums and ahs so that I can get rid of them with one click.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EDescript even has a voice generation feature called overdub. I've trained Descript with my own voice, and it allows me to replace words and phrases where I misspoke or I want to say something with more clarity, and I don't want to have to set up the microphone again to rerecord
402it. Descript generates the new text with my voice.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EWhen it comes to writing, however, like when I write a podcast script, I don't use AI to generate any of the words. These are all my own words.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThat said, I often will ask ChatGPT for a word or phrase. I'll say, âHey, what's a more precise word for this concept?â For example, I recently asked, âWhat is the Inc. Corp or Limited part of a company name called?â ChatGPT informed me that it was called the legal \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:11:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E designation.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIt's the sort of thing I once used Google for, and then I would need to follow a link. But ChatGPT gives me the answer right away, and it helps my writing be clearer.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnother thing I do when I start a podcast script is to have ChatGPT ask me questions. I'll say, âI'm writing about this topic. What questions would you ask me if you were to interview me?â I find this a great way to jumpstart writing my first draft. I take those questions and either type out the answers or I just record the answers, and I use Descript's AI to transcribe them into text.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIt's a real time saver. It gets me to my first draft much more quickly than by starting with a blank page.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnother way that I use ChatGPT is to critique my writing. I'll say, âHere's an idea that I'm trying to express. How well did I do?â ChatGPT at that point will usually \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:12:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E say, I did a great job. So not all that useful, but then I ask if I missed anything, and it will usually come up with a point or two that I hadn't thought of.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EFor me, that's a godsend. It's like having a friend look over your work and make suggestions. I feel this has improved my writing quite a lot.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAgain, I'm not using AI to create any of the text, but it is making suggestions that I can then think about and write in my own words.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAs far as AI image generation, I don't find myself very interested in it. I did once use an AI image generator to help me with a scene that I was drawing in a comic because I needed to have a reference to draw to.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, I said, âShow me someone speaking at a podium with the audience in front of them,â and it created something good enough for me to then create my comic. The image I created was all mine, but the AI provided a reference.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI think this idea of \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:13:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E references is a good way to take advantage of AI tools in the creative process.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI do want to make a distinction about generative art that is created by writing an algorithm where I create the algorithm to make the art. That's not AI, and the algorithm is not trained on other artists' work. That's me thinking of a program to make and shape the image, and I enjoy that immensely because it's very challenging and creative to think of an algorithm and to figure out how to make the computer make the image that I'm imagining in my mind.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EIf you're interested in seeing examples of non-AI generative art, look for the hashtag \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fexplore\u002Ftags\u002Fprocessing\u002F\\\"\u003E#processing\u003C\u002Fa\u003E or hashtag \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fexplore\u002Ftags\u002Fp5js\u002F\\\"\u003E#p5js\u003C\u002Fa\u003E. I'll put links to them in the show notes.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI think going forward it is important as an artist to have full disclosure. In the past, I've never disclosed what technologies I use to make a certain piece of art. In most cases, it was \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:14:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E obvious in context.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI mostly use \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fprocreate.com\u002F\\\"\u003EProCreate\u003C\u002Fa\u003E on the iPad and \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pixelmator.com\u002Fpro\u002F\\\"\u003EPixelmator\u003C\u002Fa\u003E on the Mac for digital art. I use \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fprocessing.org\u002F\\\"\u003EProcessing\u003C\u002Fa\u003E for generative art. I use Ableton Live for my music and so forth.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EBut going forward I plan to fully disclose what AI and tools I use in making my art, including when I don't use any AI at all. At the end of my podcast, I'll disclose what AI tools I used, if any for that episode.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI think from now on, so many people are going to be using AI in their daily lives, and it's going to be hard to distinguish whether someone's used AI in the work that they did.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ETo me, that represents a real opportunity. Because the world's going to be flooded with content that was created by AI. And people are going to be seeking out art that was not created with AI. I think it's actually going to make that sort of art, the art created by an actual human, \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:15:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E more valuable.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI think artists have an opportunity to use AI technology to become more creative, more expressive, and more empathetic. But artists need to push for control over how their works are being used. and they need to insist that any AI that they use fully disclose the sources.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnd I do think an artist needs to be very clear whether an art piece that they created was created by artificial intelligence, or if they just simply use AI tools to help them to create that artwork. I want to know that an art piece was created by a person, and I think the art world is pretty smart and will make distinctions fairly quickly about whether a piece of art that was generated by AI has any value.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI'm using AI in my podcast production process. But ultimately, these are my words. These are my thoughts, and I'm using AI just simply to help me be a little bit more productive, a little bit \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:16:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E more creative, and a little bit more expressive, and that's where I find a comfortable balance in using AI in my creative process.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EHow will you be using AI in the stuff that you make and what steps are you going to take to make sure that you maintain integrity in the work that you create?\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI myself think that this is a really fascinating topic and in particular because we are now at the moment in time when all of these AI tools are being released into the world and we are just starting to figure out how to use them and how to live with them.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003ESo, in preparing this episode, I consulted a number of different articles and YouTubes on this topic, and I've linked to them in the show notes. So please refer to the show \u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:17:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E notes and take a look at these. I think you'll find them very interesting.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EAnd so, onto my disclosures. All the words in this episode are mine, except for some paraphrasing that I did from the Guardian article about Jaron Lanier.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EI did all of the post-production using the Descript tool, and that does use AI for transcribing my voice. And I also used ChatGPT to ask me some questions about this topic and that helped me to get to my first draft.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThe cover art that I'm using for this episode was created by an algorithm that I wrote specifically for this episode, and I assembled the cover art using Pixelmator on the Mac.\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThe short melody that I use at the beginning and between segments is a Sonic Pi program called \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fsonic-pi.mehackit.org\u002Fexercises\u002Fen\u002F11-templates\u002F06-play-pattern-fun.html\\\"\u003EPlay Pattern Fun\u003C\u002Fa\u003E, that is part of the \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\u002F\u002Fsonic-pi.mehackit.org\u002F\\\"\u003EMe Hack It Sonic Pi programming workshop\u003C\u002Fa\u003E.\u003Cspan style=\\\"color:#808080;\\\"\u003E[00:18:00]\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fspan\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\\n\u003Cp class=\\\"Script\\\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\\\"font-size:14pt;\\\"\u003EThat's it for this episode. 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