Stage 1: AI Augments Human Authors

Dangers

• "Filling in gaps" in human knowledge
• Removing birds that look like JPEG artifacts

Stage 2

Unauthorized AI versions of artist websites

Stage 2

AI appropriation of Connected Knowledge website

Original Connected Knowledge site

Stage 3: AI Replaces Human Author

Websim.ai

Stage 2

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Stage 3: AI Replaces Human Author

• Exercise: personalized web demo
  • Advanced > "myfest26"
  • Choose a representative news source
  • Adjust the slant
  • Re-run with new setting

LearnWithAI.org/personalized_web

Personalized Web Demo

Solutions

• ❌ Outlaw generative AI
• ❌ Copyright enforcement
• ✅ Data center moratorium
• ✅ Require source-checking across multiple outlets
• ✅ Use news aggregators like AllSides
• ✅ Building class activities that compare AI summaries to original texts
• ❓ Separate shelf for books after 2022
• ❓ Return to Web 1.0 protocols like RSS and web rings

Links for today's workshop:

• (I Do Not Think It Means) What You Think It Means Interactive site
• (I Do Not Think It Means) What You Think It Means 2-minute introduction
• The Personalized Web demo (requires API key for live rewrite, else defaults to static version)