Transparency and Accountability Regarding AI Usage
(Image made through Canva without AI) Dear Readers of The Contemporary Mystic, In past blog posts, I have used AI (Artificial Intelligence) from Canva or ChatGPT to create images to convey the topics. However, after further research and understanding of the dangers and concerns of AI, I will no longer be using AI moving forward . Outside of managing my digital journal, I am a professional artist and often use my spiritual experiences to enchant or inspire certain pieces. For me, art is an integral part of my devotional practice as well, to honor the Divine. I now fully understand that the AI models steal from any content online to generate images, books, and more. “ The language models and image generators need samples before they can generate anything – they can’t create text or images from nothing. The companies call this “training” – the AI is being provided huge datasets that are run through several algorithms. Where does that data come from? From us. Human creati...