Every day in the workplace, people are discovering that artificial intelligence has the potential to change our jobs and our lives — for better or worse.
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to fundamentally change our lives for the better and for the worse. That simple truth is fueling the debate in the tech world over how quickly to move forward. It’s also on the minds of everyday people as they start using AI in their work. NPR’s Andrea Hsu reports.
ANDREA HSU, BYLINE: Baltimore illustrator John de Campos has strong feelings about AI dating back to when he discovered that some of his original work had been used to train AI to be smarter.
JOHN DE CAMPOS: And I’m not famous at all. I’m, like, a very not-well-known dude outside of the world of just Baltimore.
HSU: He joined the ranks of artists denouncing programs that use AI to create images, pointing out that they were built using work like his scraped from the internet without permission.
DE CAMPOS: It’s so gross.
HSU: Practically overnight, programs like Midjourney and DALL-E have made it possible for anyone to create highly sophisticated images for fun but also to make money – or, if you’re a business, to save money. For de Campos, that’s an outrage and a concern.
DE CAMPOS: The fact that human expression and art is now at risk and on the chopping block is just, like, super-duper scary to me.
HSU: Now de Campos is hoping to make a living as a board game designer.
DE CAMPOS: So yeah, here’s some of my stuff here.
HSU: In his home studio, he shows me his newest release, Black Mold, which he describes as a survival horror escape. It’s played with dice and decks of cards adorned with drawings sprung from his own mind and hand.
DE CAMPOS: This game is massive. There’s easily 50 or 60 hours’ worth of illustration work in this box.
HSU: It’s work that de Campos knows can be done and is being done elsewhere by AI. As disgusted as he is by that, even…
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