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Originally Posted by Hitch
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Anyway, not to digress, but is it really different to ask a human to do it, than asking a machine? Or is that just an excuse we're all telling ourselves? (Genuinely asking, not...not debating argumentatively!)
Hitch
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I think to me it's the scale and speed that feel different rather than some ethical distinction. The ML model is trained on every single image its keepers can scrape from the internet and can output say 10 images per minute on a decent home PC covering everything it's seen. An aspiring human forger spends a considerable length of time studying just one artist and I'm sure even the best digital painter takes longer than 5 seconds per picture. So it's a question of degree rather than kind.
People who think there's something other than large scale long term reinforcement learning of connections going on in our brains might disagree. Every advancement I see in AI just pushes me further towards the opinion that we're the latest in a long evolution of meat machines, nothing special.
Andrew