LETTERS
Feedback from readers
It was disappointing to read Bonnie Chau’s dismissal of the social and economic threat of AI-generated imagery and text as “overblown” in “ChatGPT Revises Authorship” (May/June 2023). The data models, which are the backbone of these bleeding-edge commercial software tools, are generated through the vast, untracked consumption and storage of human creative output. The hard work and intellectual property is more thoughtful of the legal and ethical implications of AI and more considerate of the legal and creative interests of human poets and writers in future discussions of this dangerous and poorly understood new technology—one that is already eliminating creative jobs previously performed by humans.
