It's a beautiful day to be a human, bathing in the glorious sunshine of this week's heatwave. However, it's also a pretty good time to be Artificial Intelligence... or a bot.

This week on the podcast we’re kicking off a two part AI deep dive. Firstly, in this episode, we will talking about the recent author protests outside of Meta’s London offices, asking whether AI can really make art, and looking at how AI is creeping into our everyday lives.

It recently emerged that Meta, the tech conglomerate formerly known as Facebook Inc, which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads has scraped millions of books from the pirate data library Library Genesis- more commonly known as LibGen- to use to train its flagship AI model Llama 3.

Last month, icon, illustrator and Studio Ghibli co-founder, Hayao Miyazaki, was being copied and mimicked thanks to thanks to OpenAI’s latest version of its ChatGPT tool.. His water-colour, hand drawn illustrations truly are so loved across the world and bring so much beauty to those films.

As creatives we perhaps have a particularly purist approach to the incorporation of AI into our work, not only from a moral and ethical standpoint, where so many people may soon be out of work, but also from a creative protectionist point of view, where the time and practise and skills needed to create valuable and adored art should be celebrated rather than replicated by machines; but what about in other industries? In education? In schools?

Join us next week for part 2 where we will be diving into how the tech’s increasingly seeping into our relationships and internal worlds.

O,R.B xx

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Why I – and other bestselling authors – are protesting outside Meta today

Ben Affleck explains why it's 'highly unlikely' AI will destroy film, claims it may even enhance the industry

Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘disgusted’ thoughts on AI resurface following Studio Ghibli trend

Christie's AI art auction outpaces expectations, bringing in more than $728,000

Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools?

Is AI Turning Me Into an Obsolete Machine?

Sorry, Labour, but ChatGPT teachers are a lesson in how not to transform our schools

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