Best-selling author Margaret Atwood isn't worried about the unabated rise of generative AI. He told Reuters he was too old to worry about the impact on art.
Her remarks follow a petition calling for an end to the unauthorized use of creative works to train AI models, which currently has more than 31,000 signatures. But Atwood's relaxed posture in Machine March isn't just due to age. This is supported by her critical assessment of the achievements of AI in specific artistic fields.
“So far, AI is a shitty poet,” she told the news agency. “It's really bad. Like, worse than most people. And he's not a very good novelist either.”
She also rejected the idea that AI would improve its literary abilities, insisting that “AI is a data scraper, so you can never extract the original creator from it.”
“But if I were 30, I would be worried,” she added. “Especially when I'm 30 and it's visual art. If I were a graphic designer, I'd be worried.”