# Talk me off the ledge: Will AI destroy my industry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [March 30, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879 "2023-03-30T13:27:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/141 "2024-01-06T18:49:42Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > And farther along the spectrum, not so far off, we’re going to see wholesale image transformation. You can already achieve this using online generation tools, so it’s just a matter of incorporating these into camera apps, and maybe toning down the generative aspect a _little_ bit, so that you get something that looks like what you pictured, but better. > > Camera apps are already doing some of this stuff, like cropping out parts that you don’t want, and having it generate the rest. But it’ll all get more pervasive, and probably default to on. on - medium term consequence is that the “economic blanket” for professional photographers will get even shorter … hey, if I can get those greater than great Dyn.HighContrast, highly saturated and sharpened postcard pics out of my flagship phone, why should I pay a photographer for something similar, or “less flashy” (albeit way more accurate) … another market segment will (slowly?) melt away… ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/142 "2024-01-06T19:22:11Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Would it matter? Even photos “uploaded willy-nilly” are protected by copyright which is the primary beef artists/photographers have with web scraping. easy here when crying “protected by copyright” - what are practical and legal limitations to copyright? - Legislation??? Does the copyright of a Swiss guy in Namibia who snaps a pic of a burger apply in Bolivia, in Hong Kong? - … are their “fair use” clauses in copyright? what are their limitations? - what if you upload your burger pic to twitter/IG/FB/Straight Dope et al… do you waive your copyrights… ? - how do search engines fit in all this: (img. search for “photo of burger”) and have my AI look for pages after pages of burger-pics? I believe all this “matters” (as per your post) - so it’s not as easy as “ **but its protected by copyright!!!** ” ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/143 "2024-01-06T19:30:05Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > easy here when crying “protected by copyright” > […] > I believe all this “matters” (as per your post) - so it’s not as easy as “ **but its protected by copyright!!!** ” I wasn’t “crying”, nor did I used multiple exclamation marks. I also don’t have a horse in the copyright dispute so, even if I was inclined to discuss this with someone who responds like that off the bat, I don’t see the point here. There’s also probably better threads for it in GD than cluttering up one about AI impact on the workplace. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/144 "2024-01-06T19:42:02Z")
Photographers can’t complain. They took the jobs away from all those illustration artists before photography. Imagine, spending all day drawing something, then some guy comes along with a device and pushes a button, and gets something better! There should be a law. Magazine Illustrators of the world, unite! The more serious point is that AI is here, and it’s not going away. People learn from previous artists, and copy parts of the styles and expand the art. AI is no different, except maybe in the scale at which it can be used. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/145 "2024-01-06T19:47:06Z")
apologies offered if you feel my response was too strongly worded … (I gladly admit to interpunctation excesses!!! ← (hehe)) I also have no dog in this fight, but it seems this matter is very complex and the big dogs (who do have a dog in this fight) seem to just fight it out (NY-Times vs. the AIs) … in any case goes way beyond “my photos are protected by copyright” fwiw - I feel this interchange fits quite nicely in the OP … best regards ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/146 "2024-01-06T20:02:08Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > They took the jobs away from all those illustration artists before photography. That’s not the core complaint of the creators involved. Honestly, as I previously mentioned, I’m deep into using AI generation --probably in the top five active people on the board if not the top for actual methods & means – and the arguments from you guys are making ME cringe. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/147 "2024-01-06T22:31:06Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I think Banquet\_Bear’s point is that the area of food photography where AI might assist is already eaten up by existing cell phone tech. At the low end, no one cares what taco clip art you slap on your sunfaded menu board at your roadside stand. On the high end, someone putting an ad in _Fancy Dinin’_ magazine or national ad campaign is likely going to want human staging and eye to attention. And, increasingly, people who want a photo of their bakery case for Instagram or a pizza photo for the Valpak mailer can accomplish that with an iPhone. And can move their own salt shaker and take infinite reshoots rather than relying on AI to do the heavy lifting. If there’s grease stains on the basket or the fries look limp, you just grab a different basket and rearrange some new fries and press the phone’s button fifty more times, you don’t call a food photographer. …exactly this. > [@Al128](#): > > How did AI get its grubby hands on your photos? Software automatically collected data from websites including stock image sites, social media, personal websites, artist showcases, many times in violation of the terms of services of the websites it scraped, without permission, or compensation. > [@Al128](#): > > Did you upload it willy-nilly on the internets Not “willy-nilly.” > [@Al128](#): > > Legislation??? Does the copyright of a Swiss guy in Namibia who snaps a pic of a burger apply in Bolivia, in Hong Kong? Namibia, Boliva and Hong Kong are all signatories to the Berne Convention. > [@Al128](#): > > - … are their “fair use” clauses in copyright? what are their limitations? Fair use is a doctrine, it isn’t a “clause” in copyright. In the United States it allows limited use of copyrighted material under a “four-factor test” that includes the purpose of its use, the nature of the work, the amount and sustainability of the work that was used, and the effect of the usage of the works on the _value_ of that work. Fair use isn’t universal. For example, where I live, we don’t have fair use, we have _fair dealing_, which is a different doctrine that applies different tests, and is a lot less broad than fair use. > [@Al128](#): > > what if you upload your burger pic to twitter/IG/FB/Straight Dope et al… do you waive your copyrights… ? Using Facebook as an example: > [@Facebook](#): > > You retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (things such as copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on Facebook and other [Meta Company Products](https://www.facebook.com/help/195227921252400?ref=tos) that you use. Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want.However, to provide our services we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a “License”) to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services as described in Section 1 above. [https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms?paipv=0&eav=AfaXc42ApsV0T4iKFMECdwwsujl5fbdvUflojEMK6OT4iK4zdlaAyX4LfokaWGBK0WE&\_rdr](https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms?paipv=0&eav=AfaXc42ApsV0T4iKFMECdwwsujl5fbdvUflojEMK6OT4iK4zdlaAyX4LfokaWGBK0WE&_rdr) You don’t waive copyright when you upload to Facebook. You retain ownership of all copyright and trademarks. You assign a _licence_ to Facebook to be able to use it in different ways, for example to display your work. > [@Al128](#): > > how do search engines fit in all this: (img. search for “photo of burger”) and have my AI look for pages after pages of burger-pics? Search engines post snippets of work that are largely considered to be fair use. And your AI isn’t just “looking” at page after page of burger pics. That isn’t a useful analogy. It isn’t a person. It doesn’t have eyes. Its _software_. > [@Al128](#): > > I believe all this “matters” (as per your post) - so it’s not as easy as “ **but its protected by copyright!!!** ” I’ll repeat what I said: > [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > You mean trained on zillions of photographs taken by professional photographers, including me, that were used without our permission, nor offered compensation. An AI that if it weren’t for our hard work, skill, expertise and uncompensated labour, _wouldn’t be able to do what it does_. I didn’t say anything about copyright. But what Jophiel says is correct. My work _is_ protected by copyright. > [@US Copyright Office](#): > > Copyright is a type of intellectual property that protects **original works of authorship** as soon as an author **fixes** the work in a **tangible form of expression**. > > … > > Works are original when they are independently created by a human author and have a minimal degree of creativity. Independent creation simply means that you create it yourself, without copying. The Supreme Court has said that, to be creative, a work must have a “spark” and “modicum” of creativity. > **[What is Copyright? | U.S. Copyright Office](https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/)** > > Copyright is a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression. In copyright law, there are a lot of different types of works, including paintings,... I’m not sure what prompted you to be so flippant with your responses here. But copyright is the thing that allows creative people to earn a living. It’s been _fundamental_ in giving space for writers and painters and photographers and musicians to do what they do and _be able to get paid for it_. > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Photographers can’t complain. Of _course_ we can. > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > They took the jobs away from all those illustration artists before photography. I haven’t actually complained about AI taking away jobs in my last series of posts. I’ve argued that AI will have a _marginal_ impact on food photography, and that food photography “won’t be toast.” > [@Al128](#): > > I also have no dog in this fight, but it seems this matter is very complex and the big dogs (who do have a dog in this fight) seem to just fight it out (NY-Times vs. the AIs) … in any case goes way beyond “my photos are protected by copyright” The thing is…I _do_ have a dog in this fight. I’m a small dog. There are hundreds of thousands of independent artists, photographers, writers, painters, illustrators who all have a dog in this fight. We are reliant on the “big dogs” fighting the fight on our behalf, even though we know that those “big dogs” really aren’t on our side. Because it really doesn’t go much beyond, “my photos are protected by copyright." Thats the starting point here. Copyright is effectively the only tool that creative’s have to protect their work. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/148 "2024-01-06T23:02:09Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > I’ll be including some videos on food photography. I can’t say I’m an expert in a lot of things. But I’m actually an expert _here_. I’d actually be interested about this. DM/IM/PM me when you have some up. Really good food photography always impresses me. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/149 "2024-01-07T00:45:11Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’d actually be interested about this. DM/IM/PM me when you have some up. Really good food photography always impresses me. …will do. At the rate we are going, it will be a very big while away LOL. But when I get to it, I’ll send a link. I’m still in the process of writing scripts, and it will be a while before we even start filming the basic stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/150 "2024-01-07T05:13:28Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > At the low end, no one cares what taco clip art you slap on your sunfaded menu board at your roadside stand. On the high end, someone putting an ad in _Fancy Dinin’_ magazine or national ad campaign is likely going to want human staging and eye to attention. That’s exactly the problem with the argument. We’re in agreement that there won’t be a change at the low or high end. But change happens at the margins. There is _always_ someone in the middle, debating whether spending X dollars on Y performance is worthwhile. And if you lower X by making things cheaper, or increase Y by making it better, then you will capture some of that market. Maybe each incremental step is so small to be unnoticeable. But tiny steps add up. This has already happened with cell phone cameras themselves vs. previous digital cameras. And before that, digital cameras vs. film cameras. Early on, performance was bad, and basically only good enough for toy use. No _professional_ would use that crap. But performance went up, and costs went down, and almost no one uses standalone cameras. Only at the tippy-top high end, or for very specific uses (telephoto) does anyone bother with standalone cameras. At every point on that development spectrum, people were saying “no big deal, it’s still not good enough for application A, and application B people have already switched”. But incremental progress has a habit of eroding those gaps. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/151 "2024-01-07T05:22:29Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > Of _course_ we can. I was speaking rhetorically, and a little tongue in cheeck. But there are several real points in there. One is that technology has been disrupting industry since the start of the industrial revolution. But a more hopeful one is that people of talent won’t be shut out - they’ll be enabled to achieve greater heights. The people at risk aren’t the artists with real vision and talent, but the hordes of workaday illustrators, second unit productions, corporate graphics and video people, etc. If AI makes some artistic tasks much easier, it enables artists of real vision to build new art on top of it, just as great artists did with photography and film. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/152 "2024-01-07T06:36:38Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Maybe each incremental step is so small to be unnoticeable. But tiny steps add up. Sure, but the argument is that the main factor in those “tiny steps” has been camera affordability and quality itself via cell phones. The advantages AI offers in that mid-space aren’t nearly as significant as to be “industry destroying” in the reasonable future. As previously stated: > [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > And better AI simply means that this market segment will be able to take better pictures. It may eventually have an impact on the larger market. But photographers will adapt, add AI if it works for them to their work flow, and charge accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/153 "2024-01-07T10:43:29Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > that’s what Egg McMuffins look like when you unwrap them If I got an Egg McMuffin that looked like that, I’d return it to the counter. The actual ones I get sit a lot closer to the top image than the bottom (except the sausage patty is the same size as the egg) ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/154 "2024-01-07T16:17:46Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > There’s a huge gray area between the two There’s a lot of overlap indeed. These algorithms are on a continuum. But there’s still a big difference between AI imaging and generative AI imaging. The backend of stable diffusion is the same architecture as a NN denoiser or super-resolution. However the front-end of stable diffusion is unique; an encoder that maps the input image into internal features. And that’s a big difference between current camera algorithms and generative AI (or the half step of moon inpainting). 1. How is the input image used? Are the input pixels used directly or are they encoded into internal features? 2. How large / complex is the AI? Generative AIs are at least an order of magnitude bigger. This gives them room to unconstrain the input, hallucinate more varied outputs, but add weirder artifacts. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/155 "2024-04-08T11:09:18Z")
There are tons of possible threads in which to update the crumbling of Stability AI/Stable Diffusion, but I thought I would pick this one. The hype cycle continues…hype a thing, attract tons of capital, fail to deliver a viable business model, fall to pieces. > **[Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its AWS bills](https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/stability_ai_bills/)** > > Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/156 "2024-04-08T14:15:18Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > The hype cycle continues…hype a thing, attract tons of capital, fail to deliver a viable business model, fall to pieces. Maybe the Stability company is just a little before its time. So the hype right now is just hype, and not a profitable business. This reminds me of the pets dot com bust back in 1999. It was a good idea…and as Victor Hugo said, nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come. The problem was that the time for pets dot com had not yet come. It came a decade later, when a company called chewy dot com became a big success doing the same thing that pets dot com had failed at. But in the meantime, times had changed; the public’s shopping habits changed, the efficiency of home delivery had changed, etc. And so now there was a useful way to profit from the new technology. AI is a totally new technology, and the world is still trying to figure out what to do with it, how to sell it and how to use it. Like in the 1980’s when computers were a new technology, and companies like Atari and Radio Shack tried to sell machines which nobody had figured out a good use for. My guess is that pretty soon people will figure out a way to use AI for something practical. And when that happens, the Stablity company will have died off, like pets com. But somebody else will make a fortune; the hype will no longer be hype..it will be real. AI scares me, because nobody seems to be able to control it. Hallucinations are a real problem. Mistakes made by AI could cause deaths (say, in self-driving cars), or destroy careers (say, in legal documents). So complete adoption of AI may take longer than we thought. (Just as fully autonomous cars are taking longer than we thought). But for professions like the OP’s advertising .it seems to me that AI could be very useful, very soon. Let it run freely, create artwork and text. Then you will only need one human to supervise it, to catch the mistakes. Most of the other employees at the ad agency may lose their jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/157 "2024-04-08T16:35:31Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > Mistakes made by AI could cause deaths (say, in self-driving cars), or destroy careers (say, in legal documents). Mistakes made by humans are already causing deaths in cars and destroying careers via the legal system. And I’m not just talking about it in a shallow whataboutism way of nothing can ever be perfect. US pedestrian deaths are up over 60% from the all time low with no similar rise in pedestrian deaths in other countries: [![](https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/17194.jpeg) ](https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/17194.jpeg) And anyone who has interacted with the court system knows there are thousands of common sense reforms that could greatly reduce the degree of injustice via simple errors in the courts that nobody is doing because most people don’t care and a very small group of people care very much that it doesn’t change. It always fascinates me that something that’s been around for a while just fades into background noise and we develop learned helplessness about ever fixing it while some new thing crops up that has the same damages but 1000x less and all of a sudden, we are enthused about making sure that 1/1000th risk goes down to zero. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/158 "2024-04-09T03:20:12Z")
> **[Card game developer says it paid an 'AI artist' $90,000 to generate card art...](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/card-games/champions-tcg-ai-artist/)** > > "For us to get this with a team of traditional artists it would cost us a lot more money, and time," the developer told us. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/159 "2024-04-09T03:42:03Z")
> According to Malec, Champions has made “about $500K” in card sales so far. Its raison d’etre is that its cards are [NFTs](https://www.pcgamer.com/tag/nft/) which can be traded or purchased with [cryptocurrency](https://www.pcgamer.com/tag/cryptocurrency/), but the developer also sells “gems”—which can be traded in for card packs—in exchange for regular US dollars Of course an NFT grifter would go all in on an AI Art grifter. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/160 "2024-04-22T17:15:22Z")
Captain Kirk sides with AI. > **['It's Sad': William Shatner Responds to Backlash Over Using AI for Children's...](https://www.cbr.com/william-shatner-ai-cover-backlash/)** > > William Shatner is defending the use of AI to create his newest album's cover following some internet backlash. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879.md?page=9)