From a scientific point of view, technology experts are divided. People like Sam Altman or Bill Gates are delighted with AI, and believe that it will be beneficial for everyone. Others, like Geoffrey Hinton, instead see a terrible danger in it. Nobody agrees. But what happens between artists? Authors like Stephen King or Haya Miyazaki have spoken about it.
Keep in mind that AI does not only seem to affect work (in the opinion of many, not necessarily for the better). The world of culture is already being transformed by it. People are constantly publishing books on Amazon made with AI, and there are already «movies» that promise to turn everything upside down. Will this technology really affect writers or film directors?
From Stephen King to Hayao Miyazaki: total rejection of AI
In 2023, Stephen King himself made his position on AI clear. He did so by writing an extensive column in The Atlantic in which he said the following: «The machine can imitate me, but it can’t be me.» The writer was not absolutely terrified of artificial intelligence, but he did acknowledge that it can be «a soulless replacement.»
King is clear that writing is not just a matter of structure and vocabulary, which can be recreated, but of human experience and personal judgment, which cannot. In addition, he has expressed concern about how these systems are trained using copyrighted works without consent, something he described as «legally gray and morally more than questionable.»
Even more forceful was Hayao Miyazaki, the famous director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli. It must be recognized that the director of legendary films like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke o My neighbor Totoro He suffered firsthand, so to speak, from the rise of ChatGPT. For a time it became completely fashionable to imitate his style. He considered it «an insult to life itself.»
More «political» has been Christopher Nolan, the director of Origen y Oppenheimer. He has warned on several occasions about the dangers of letting AI penetrate the film industry without limits. Nolan has described this technology as «a potentially dangerous tool for creative authorship». That is, for scriptwriting, editing and post-production.
Artists do not want to be imitated by a machine
Musicians have not welcomed artificial intelligence either. In fact, now with it anyone can create a song and share it on the Internet, just like that, even if they have never touched an instrument. Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave made his position very clear in 2023, when he was asked about the issue during an interview.
For him, AI means «an insult to human existence». That is, a vision very similar to that of Miyazaki. Are all these artists right and is AI endangering culture? Or are they really just upset that soon anyone will be able to do what only they were capable of before? The debate, of course, is served.
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