www.goldderby.com: When both the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA went on strike in 2023, generative AI became a major sticking point in the conversation between artists and the people who hire them. And while those strikes ended with some guardrails being put into place, the issue was not completely resolved.
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There is this fantastic science fiction trilogy by Neal Shusterman, Unwind. There are spoilers. It tackles an unnerving future after a deadly war over abortion rights. This war has finally come to a peace where there is no longer abortion allowed but after so many years and before you turn into an adult, you can give an unwind order to turn your, or adopted, child into “spare parts” for other parts for transplants or physical abnormalities. It reveals this slowly throughout the series but the general idea is applicable here. Generative AI is piecemealing performances, actors, and original work into a new conglomeration. A secret shadow organization tries to normalize a new, entirely piecemealed human through photo ops and other events. None of this is as extreme but the lack of creativity in this performance is a stain and lacking. The whole use of AI and its training data is a time bomb where generated content will make up all of the training data or at least a majority.
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