ザッカーバーグ氏、AI の活用と生活のバランスについて理解不足との指摘

Elizabeth Lopatto

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.

Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he’d used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he’d hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, “Do cool shit.” I made what I hoped was a polite noise. What reaction was this man looking for? He probably hoped someone, maybe me, would say it was cool or inspiring. It seemed I was not the first person he’d told about this poster. “You know, it’s funny,” he said to me. “No one ever says anything about it.”

I have been thinking about this now for several days. There’s a sort of turducken of things that I find off-putting all rolled into this anecdote: hippie shit, motivational posters, AI “art.” Still, the sum total of reactions to this poster appears to be polite noises.

But what is the correct answer to someone showing you their slop? No one made it. Even bad art — for instance, a version of that motivational poster drawn by a person — requires effort on the part of the artist, and expresses the artist’s mind, both in the content and in the motor skills required to draw lines on a page. It requires a person’s time and attention. AI “art” requires typing a prompt into a box, and maybe refining the results a couple times. There’s nothing to react to.

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I bring this up because Mark Zuckerberg has posted a manifesto that he — or his communications team, or possibly an AI — wrote.

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