Today, PEN America is releasing a new “white paper” on generative AI that looks at this watershed technological moment and its implications for civic trust, free speech and free expression, creative expression by writers and artists, authenticity and the very notion of truth.
Speech in the Machine: Generative AI’s Implications for Free Expression warns that the impact on the basic rights of free expression and free speech, writers, artists and creators— for good or for bad— will depend on whether governments and private companies “define and execute their human rights responsibilities.”
The white paper is intended to explore the range of issues related to these new technologies, including the current Hollywood writers and actors strikes. We hope you will find it valuable to your coverage of concerns related to this technology, along with government efforts to regulate it.
The white paper states: “If writers and creators are increasingly displaced by machines, it poses a threat not only to those creative artists, but to the public as a whole,” the white paper states. “The scope of inspiration from which truly new creative works draw may be narrowed, and the very power of literature, television, and film to catalyze innovative ways of thinking may be undercut.”
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In addition, PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel has written an essay on generative AI, that explores the implications for society, which was published today in The New Republic.
