ai &mdash; Catherine Flick: Publications, Media, and Thoughts https://blog.liedra.net/tag:ai Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:54:08 +0000 April media update https://blog.liedra.net/april-media-update <![CDATA[Well, the new job has had me pretty busy! But I've been doing some media stuff which I want to just record here for posterity (and when I ultimately need to look back on what I've done this year and feel like I accomplished something). 2024-01-26 What the hell is going on with the U.K. Post Office? 2024-02-29 AIs get better at maths if you tell them to pretend to be in Star Trek 2024-03-01 Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-level intelligence 2024-03-07 Why Elon Musk’s lawsuit could slow down AI  2024-03-08 Women in Games - Level of Detail S2 EP4 2024-03-17 Letter in The Guardian, The impact of screen time on parent-child relationships 2024-03-18 Ady Dayman, BBC Radio Leicester, talking about cyber security in Leicester’s schools and Leicester City Council 2024-04-15 Educating AI, Crossed Wires Podcast Coming soon: I’ll be doing a TEDxStaffordshireUniversity talk in May, and I’ll be rustling around @emf@emfcamp.org for the weekend running Content and the Arcade! #media #podcast #radio #newspaper #ai #cybersecurity #postoffice #games #screentime Follow this blog on the Fediverse: @cflick@blog.liedra.net Want to comment? Copy me in: @CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk]]> Well, the new job has had me pretty busy! But I've been doing some media stuff which I want to just record here for posterity (and when I ultimately need to look back on what I've done this year and feel like I accomplished something).

2024-01-26 What the hell is going on with the U.K. Post Office?

2024-02-29 AIs get better at maths if you tell them to pretend to be in Star Trek

2024-03-01 Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-level intelligence

2024-03-07 Why Elon Musk’s lawsuit could slow down AI 

2024-03-08 Women in Games – Level of Detail S2 EP4

2024-03-17 Letter in The Guardian, The impact of screen time on parent-child relationships

2024-03-18 Ady Dayman, BBC Radio Leicester, talking about cyber security in Leicester’s schools and Leicester City Council

2024-04-15 Educating AI, Crossed Wires Podcast

Coming soon: I’ll be doing a TEDxStaffordshireUniversity talk in May, and I’ll be rustling around @emf@emfcamp.org for the weekend running Content and the Arcade!

#media #podcast #radio #newspaper #ai #cybersecurity #postoffice #games #screentime

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]]> https://blog.liedra.net/april-media-update Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:13:45 +0000 ChatGPT-generated books are flooding Amazon, and experts warn they could drown out books written by humans https://blog.liedra.net/chatgpt-generated-books-are-flooding-amazon-and-experts-warn-they-could-drown <![CDATA[This article is about how ChatGPT is being used by grifters to flood Amazon with terrible books. It was in the paper copy of The Independent as well, featuring a picture of me, which is cool! An image of the paper version of the news article linked below. Generally I think this is likely to shake up the grift associated with pumping out terrible self help books as brought to light by Dan Olson in his great video about this particular grift. I feel bad for publishers :( Stokel-Walker, C. (2023) ChatGPT-generated books are flooding Amazon, and experts warn they could drown out books written by humans. The Independent, 24 February 2023. Also available online at https://inews.co.uk/news/chatgpt-books-amazon-drown-out-written-humans-2168855 #media #newspaper #ai Follow this blog on the Fediverse: @cflick@blog.liedra.net Want to comment? Copy me in: @CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk]]> This article is about how ChatGPT is being used by grifters to flood Amazon with terrible books. It was in the paper copy of The Independent as well, featuring a picture of me, which is cool!

An image of the paper version of the news article linked below.

Generally I think this is likely to shake up the grift associated with pumping out terrible self help books as brought to light by Dan Olson in his great video about this particular grift. I feel bad for publishers :(

Stokel-Walker, C. (2023) ChatGPT-generated books are flooding Amazon, and experts warn they could drown out books written by humans. The Independent, 24 February 2023. Also available online at https://inews.co.uk/news/chatgpt-books-amazon-drown-out-written-humans-2168855

#media #newspaper #ai

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]]> https://blog.liedra.net/chatgpt-generated-books-are-flooding-amazon-and-experts-warn-they-could-drown Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:02:10 +0000 ChatGPT will write your Valentine’s Day cards, but we are not ready for the AI advancement https://blog.liedra.net/chatgpt-will-write-your-valentines-day-cards-but-we-are-not-ready-for-the-ai <![CDATA[Another article by the most hard working tech journalist in town, Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel@infosec.exchange), in which I rubbish greeting card messages (I mean really who reads those, apart from my husband, because he doesn't like to write his own?). Sorry greeting card writers, really :( Seriously though, I suspect the use of AI will not matter so much for these sorts of generic type messages - this and things like website copy - and we'll come to appreciate real human effort going into things more. And humans won't be stuck writing horribly boring and/or repetitive copy. Stokel-Walker, C. (2023) ChatGPT will write your Valentine’s Day cards, but we are not ready for the AI advancement. i news, 31 Jan 2023. https://inews.co.uk/news/science/chatgpt-moonpig-trials-ai-cards-experts-warn-not-ready-2118814 #media #newspaper #ai Follow this blog on the Fediverse: @cflick@blog.liedra.net Want to comment? Copy me in: @CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk]]> Another article by the most hard working tech journalist in town, Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel@infosec.exchange), in which I rubbish greeting card messages (I mean really who reads those, apart from my husband, because he doesn't like to write his own?). Sorry greeting card writers, really :( Seriously though, I suspect the use of AI will not matter so much for these sorts of generic type messages – this and things like website copy – and we'll come to appreciate real human effort going into things more. And humans won't be stuck writing horribly boring and/or repetitive copy.

Stokel-Walker, C. (2023) ChatGPT will write your Valentine’s Day cards, but we are not ready for the AI advancement. i news, 31 Jan 2023. https://inews.co.uk/news/science/chatgpt-moonpig-trials-ai-cards-experts-warn-not-ready-2118814

#media #newspaper #ai

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]]> https://blog.liedra.net/chatgpt-will-write-your-valentines-day-cards-but-we-are-not-ready-for-the-ai Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:57:11 +0000 Publication: The Ethics of Creative AI https://blog.liedra.net/publication-the-ethics-of-creative-ai <![CDATA[This chapter is co-authored with Kyle Worrall, an IGGI PhD student who works in procedurally generated audio. It is part of a book The Language of Creative AI that looks at different aspects of Creative Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. We take a virtue ethics approach (and specifically a Vallor-ian approach) to look at Creative AI and what the potential ethical issues might be. We identify several different ethical issues, primarily copyright, replacement of authors/artists, bias in datasets, artistic essence, dangerous creations, deepfakes, and physical safety, and discuss the potential for mitigation of these issues. It is important to not view this chapter simply as a list of ethical issues and how to solve them - but as a starting point for discussion about what kind of society Creative AI techniques will be creating, and, more importantly, what kind of society Creative AI practitioners want to create through their artistic practice and use of AI tools. The book is behind a paywall, but you can access the accepted version of the paper here: https://liedra.net/misc/FlickWorrall-EthicsofCreativeAI.pdf Citation: Flick, C., Worrall, K. (2022). The Ethics of Creative AI. In: Vear, C., Poltronieri, F. (eds) The Language of Creative AI. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10960-7_5 #publication #ai #ethics Follow this blog on the Fediverse: @cflick@blog.liedra.net Want to comment? Copy me in: @CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk]]> This chapter is co-authored with Kyle Worrall, an IGGI PhD student who works in procedurally generated audio. It is part of a book The Language of Creative AI that looks at different aspects of Creative Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined.

We take a virtue ethics approach (and specifically a Vallor-ian approach) to look at Creative AI and what the potential ethical issues might be. We identify several different ethical issues, primarily copyright, replacement of authors/artists, bias in datasets, artistic essence, dangerous creations, deepfakes, and physical safety, and discuss the potential for mitigation of these issues.

It is important to not view this chapter simply as a list of ethical issues and how to solve them – but as a starting point for discussion about what kind of society Creative AI techniques will be creating, and, more importantly, what kind of society Creative AI practitioners want to create through their artistic practice and use of AI tools.

The book is behind a paywall, but you can access the accepted version of the paper here: https://liedra.net/misc/Flick_Worrall-Ethics_of_Creative_AI.pdf

Citation: Flick, C., Worrall, K. (2022). The Ethics of Creative AI. In: Vear, C., Poltronieri, F. (eds) The Language of Creative AI. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10960-7_5

#publication #ai #ethics

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