Okay, a lot of people don’t believe in sin anymore. We’re post-post-modern. I’m a cashier. I was a scholar. I’m making art, you know, without AI.
I think the best thing you can do as an artist is to have one portfolio online. Have 3 to 5 examples of your work. And all the rest of it? Take it off the web. Obviously, if it has value to you, store it somewhere safe.
Self-check is putting me out of a job. Now a computer can emulate what I spent over a decade learning: writing articles like this one. People complain about self-check, but most of them are going to use it, and then, when it messes up, cry for me to help them. Which is fine, but also deeply ironic. Most customers are losing $3 to $5 per transaction every other transaction. Because they don’t know how to read a running tab of their purchases, maybe they forget to input all of their information into the terminal, etc.
It’s putting us out of jobs. And it’s much, much worse at it than I am. If I notice a mistake (that I didn’t cause) in every transaction where one or two items didn’t ring up right, how much money is my company getting, and shouldn’t be getting, because of self-check.
I filled notebooks and hard drives and so much writing over the years. And now it can just ‘emulate’ the language I use and love. But that’s okay. Because there is something I can do: get rid of all the data AI uses. I can delete my blogs, and my good art work (and leave up the junk)..
Sin is the problem. Humans defraud, cheat, steal, take the easy way out all the time. AI is just the latest ugliness to come onto the scene. So, if I don’t have blog entries. It can’t mine the data out of them. If I don’t post my art online, it has no way of sampling them.
If you are a writer, get rid of all your online blogs (but save them somewhere if they’re valuable). If you are an artist? And it’s sampling your work? Save your work on physical media, and take down insta or tumblr or whatever it is these days. Leave the junk! Let it sample bad art! But not the true masterpieces.
And learn to recognize the counterfeit! AI doesn’t understand the principles of art: composition, balance, lights and dark, shadows, light sources, none of that! Because it can’t make art! It has no soul! And you guys thought souls were a joke, right? Well, maybe some of us were right.