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Final 12 months, the fantasy creator Joanna Maciejewska went viral (if such a factor continues to be potential on X) with a post saying “I need AI to do my laundry and dishes in order that I can do artwork and writing, not for AI to do my artwork and writing in order that I can do my laundry and dishes.” Clearly, it struck a chord with the disaffected plenty.
Regrettably, 18 months after Maciejewska’s put up, the leisure trade insists that machines ought to make artwork and artists ought to do laundry. The streaming platform Disney+ has plans to let its customers generate their very own content material from its mental property as a substitute of, y’know, paying people to make some new Star Wars or Marvel motion pictures. Elsewhere, it appears AI-generated music is resonating with a depressingly massive viewers, on condition that the AI band Breaking Rust has topped Billboard’s Nation Digital Tune Gross sales chart. If the folks demand AI slop, who’re we to disclaim them?
