Stephen Downes

It will take a few minutes to scroll through this mixture of artwork and essay, but it's an easy read and gives you some insight into how generative AI is seen through the eyes of a cartoonist. It's not quite what you might expect, but the main point is (and here I put words into the author's mouth, since he doesn't express it exactly this way) the provenance of the art we 'consume' (his word) matters. I like the example of Jurassic Park, and would have added that while the animatronics of the first movie caught my interest, the use of CGI-generated dinosaurs in Jurassic World didn't interest me at all, and I never did see the movie. But what's interesting in all this is that all of this is happening in my own head - the meaning of the content doesn't come from the author and it's not contained in the content. It's created by me when I consume it, which is why what I know about the content - the provenance, for example - matters.