Companies such as Amazon, Etsy, eBay, and other retailers that sell products created by AI need to clearly label these products as AI products.

This is not just a cause for those in the creative community but a right of consumers everywhere. As consumers laws have been passed to disclose information on most things we buy. From what we eat, to our medicines, to the label on the mattress we sleep on everything is disclosed. Why wouldn't we apply the same standards to AI?

Right now, products are being created by AI and being sold without any disclosure from the retailers. 

A friend bought a coloring book for her child on Amazon. There was no disclosure from Amazon that it was an AI product. It wasn't until she examined the publisher's page that she discovered it was AI. 

Like me, she doesn't want to contribute to AI at all, yet because of a lack of transparency, she did. She threw the book away on principle so the only people who profited from it were the publisher and Amazon. 

This is wrong!

No one has been more affected by AI as much as the creative community. People are using AI to create art for book covers displacing real artists. They are using AI to write literature displacing real writers. Most importantly they are doing this without disclosing their methods. The creative community has always struggled and has often been marginalized. Yet undisclosed AI adds to the troubles of those who have dedicated themselves to creating art and literature for future generations.

If we don't act now to regulate AI, there may come a day when your children may be asking AI what happened to all the artists, writers, and poets who used to express the human condition through their craft.

People need to have a choice whether to support AI or not.

We cannot do this unless there is a universal standard for companies to disclose AI products.

The Time to act is now.

 

ON A PERSONAL NOTE.

I have been an artist and writer my whole life. Coming from a background of severe abuse I found refuge in books. I expressed my pain in my poetry and dreamed of a world where I felt safe.  

If I were to have been denied these escapes, I would have killed myself when I was twelve. That is why this is so important to me. Books and art saved my life. 

This is why it pains me so much when I see AI trying to replace artists, poets, and writers. These talented people serve the role of preserving human creativity for future generations. If we hand that over to a program, then what does that say about us as a species? Will AI write books reflecting the plight and pitfalls of our society like George Orwell? Will it express the breadth and width of human emotions like Emily Dickinson? Will we let AI define who we are? 

I weep for that future.

No matter what they say AI is here to replace jobs. 

The CEO of Dukaan Inc. fired 90% of his staff and replaced them with AI. Now people want to replace the creative people of the world with AI. And why? So that corporations can make more money and pay fewer people. 

They say that AI will solve our healthcare problems, but what they don't say is how the homeless and unemployed will pay for insurance. They don't talk about the negative effects AI will have on real people who are struggling to survive. As always, the people talking about how great AI will be are the very same rich CEOs who are poised to profit from it. 

AI will end lives if we let it. If we are informed and choose not to support AI, it will die out. We have a right to be informed and to choose not to support AI if we want.

Please support real artists, writers, poets, sculptors, and crafters.

                                                                     Thanks 

                                                                           Kevin W. Carr