REALM OF HEROES AND MONSTERS: STORY TIME with A.P. FUCHS: S02EP19 - World Were II (Werewolf story)

Episode 19: World Were II - A father. A son. A bunker with bombs going off overhead. World War 2. One of them is a werewolf.

Welcome to the show! After taking a quick few funny jabs at the Prairies here in Canada, host A.P. Fuchs immediately gets into it and invites you to a story that involves some elements of a dark chapter in his family's history . . . but with werewolves! The Story Behind the Story gives a little history on Fuchs's background and his family's involvement with the horrors of World War 2.

As a special segment this episode, after the credits A.P. Fuchs makes a stand against AI writing and art and calls it for what it is: theft.

Partial text due to YouTube's character description restriction (link to the full article at the end):

All right. Let’s talk AI writing and art. I’m going to give it to you straight, point blank, and full-blown black and white so there’s no miscommunication.

The publishing industry was headed toward danger about a decade ago when the digital publishing boom hit. I said back then it would lead to problems and was proven right. Now we’re at the precipice of a giant problem due to the use of AI for writing and art.

To keep it simple, how AI produces a work of art or a written piece is, in short, it scours the Internet for the information you provided it by answering some prompting questions in the AI generator before the AI machine spits out what you asked for. It goes and roams the Internet and takes a bit from Column A, a bit from Column B, some more from Column C, and so on and then brings back to you what it found based on what you told it to create in a mix of what it calls “writing or art.”

There is only one way to look at this: Theft. Plagiarism. Stealing. Breach of copyright, perhaps even trademark, all for what? Money? That’s not a valid excuse.

This is no different than me being a good thief. A smart thief doesn’t go and try and knock over a bank for a big payday. They typically also don’t go for obvious outlets like a jewelry store for the same thing. They have other ways. A smart thief goes to their friend’s house and steals a few bucks then heads to their other friend’s for that silver bracelet they know their friend has and is meant for pawning off later. They go to Aunt Jane’s and pocket a few valuable small items and maybe some cash she might have lying around even if it’s just a handful of change. In the end, the thief has a pile of stolen items from various places which then gets turned into whatever they want: Cash, something to barter with, something to feed an addiction, whatever. The point is, they stole. If a cop was watching you when you did this, you bet they’d be giving you a stern talking to never mind any other consequences.

AI is no different than the above example. If you’re an artist or writer using AI, you’re a thief and a disgrace to the industry and to the craft. End of story. There is no discussion because there’s no other way to look at it. Artists and writers are to create from the heart and create through actual effort and special thought to produce what they’re making. Cheating artists use technology to do the things they can’t because they are inept at actually creating the work themselves.

Full article: https://canisterx.com/ai-writing-and-...

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