Presently many people lead comfortable lives,
that are more assisted by 'AI', than they realise.
They don't recognise it because so far A.I. has
been confined to tasks that are rich in mediocrity.
The work has gone on, and on, and on, uncredited.
Now AI has been allowed to work more
with language than before. Huge swathes
of world literature have been fed into machines
in an imitation of giving typewriters to monkeys
and expecting Shakespeare. If we wait long enough.
Computers have proven to be better at copying
than monkeys proved adept at writing plays,
replete with long words, unstable, characters
and plots that seem to be made up on the spot, with hindsight.
Living authors are annoyed at how the creativity
they once lived well off and took a small pride in
now pays them nothing, because machines
give away inferior versions of their work for free.
Beyond the loss of income for what was once,
talent permitting, a comfortable way of life,
there is a much more serious area of life
that we might call artificial, about which
we are right to worry; war and reporting.
There is always a danger connected
to collecting the facts in a military conflict.
This makes the truth hide from journalists,
who seek to share it with the world,
whilst resisting the pull of propaganda.
Hamas vs Israel is only the latest example.
