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The Line Between is happening?

Why is it that AI
Code and Humanity seems to be taking over
our creative outlets, like it’s
telling us humans to focus
Written by Elysia Chong Kityee Sr2ScH on our work and not bother
Illustration by Soo Cheng Mun Sr3B with trifling matters such as
art?

At the end of the day,
AI is still new. We’re learning
a balloon takes quite a bit the public, that makes your to balance innovation and
of effort from the insentient creations free for all to use. ethics. But in the meantime,
technology. But referencing? creative works are only
Referencing is when people While I know little getting trampled on in the
look at other creator’s work about legalities, even if it name of revolution.
and take inspiration from was perfectly legal, it leaves a

them. Maybe they credit bad taste in my mouth at the
he skyline lit up with this creation’s usage. are mashed together into an the initial piece but what thought of my writing being A stranger roughly bumps
Tbright neon screens, amalgamation of content they make will always be taken without permission. my shoulder, rousing me

broadcasting to people Already I’ve seen so that’ll be regurgitated by different from the original, Surely any creative would from my reverie. I must’ve
shuffling in the busy streets many posts from artists, AI at the command of a marked by their own feel that way, the feeling of gotten lost in my anxieties
below. Not that they’re writers, musicians, and prompt. touch on the creation. AI, lack of control over their again. As I turn my back
catching my attention. people from so many however, can only mash pre- creations, the works that on the city, feet poised to
Instead, my eyes are on my different fields—creative In reply, people who existing influences together. are the fruits of passion and take me home, I take a
phone as I walk and scroll, fields—recounting how argue for AI say that it’s It is doomed to never create labour. glance back at the electronic
articles and posts flying by. their creations have been more akin to referencing. something truly original. cityscape. With technology
taken and fed to Artificial Much like human artists, Maybe that’s why I as far as the eye can see, I
Were these written Intelligence, all in the name AI simply uses the content On the other hand, can’t bring myself to see this know that the future will be
by hand, I wonder, or were of training it. Scraping, this given as a reference, creating there is the action of technology in any positive arriving soon, if not already.
they generated by AI? action is called. an original piece of work scraping itself that leaves light, even when used non-
from there. It’s not as simple many people upset. Why creatively. Ultimately, I’m I suppose I can only

The thought leaves a tealing, is what it’s been as content getting fed into should the work they made just disappointed. hope we don’t lose our
pit in my stomach as I pocket Slikened to. AI and returning a copy. be taken in the first place? humanity between the lines
my phone. Don’t get me They speak of how There’s actual work that Without consent, it’s already In the past, people of code and binary. That we
wrong, I am excited by this the work that they’ve goes into what the AI does, stealing in that of itself is it fantasised that AI and don't get replaced by metal
step forward in technology. poured hours of effort and people would defend. not? robots would take over and wires where it counts to
It’s hard not to be impressed passion into would simply our boring day-to-day jobs be human.
by AI because it simply is be taken without a care and I’ve learnt that the It’s perfectly legal, while humans could then
impressive, how a program fed into AI, reduced to a last part is true. There is is what AI advocates use their time pursuing their I should hurry home.

can be trained and moulded random work for the tech a lot of identifying and vehemently argue back. imaginations. To be human There's a new story idea I
into a multi-use tool, but to learn from and use. They differentiating on the There aren’t laws in place and create art of so many want to work on.
paradoxically, I’m also filled speak of how their work, AI’s part. Learning just to that impede them from different types. So why is it
with dread at the thought of along with countless others, differentiate a banana from doing so and if you post it to that the exact opposite thing
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