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📣 Red_Tarsius

"Made by Human” as a Merchandise Mark?


Whenever I show non-tech people the latest progress in the AI field, aversion for AI generated art is a recurring theme. They feel betrayed when I tell them that the artwork I showed them was generated by a program. It suddenly feels less meaningful to them, much like the contrast between artisanal and industrial goods.

This made me realize that the Federal Trade Commission (or equivalent organization) might soon step in and draft a "Made by Human" labeling rule to distinguish all works of literature and art made by a "human mind" as opposed to something mostly generated by an AI algorithm.

We might be a decade away from fully generated movies but you can already make beautiful paintings, short stories and rpg settings out of tools like AI dungeon. I'm pretty sure ChatGPT can write convincing (at least for outsiders) non-fiction books. If it's not already happened, generated literature will soon FLOOD marketplaces. Amazon is already struggling with tons of low-quality books whose only purpose is to to fill this-or-that marketing niche.

However, drawing the line might be more difficult than it seems. What if you're a graphic designer and you write a combinatorial program to generate abstract posters you plan to sell? In my mind, that would still count as "Made by Human". Maybe I'm stuck under the old paradigm. What does Artisanal/"Made by Human" even mean in the 21st century?


  👤 mtmail Accepted Answer ✓
Many products are "hand made", the fancier the shop, the more hand-made stuff you'll find. So I could imagine a similar label.