Since it’s good to have my feelings on the matter stated clearly in a more prominent place than scattered across various blog posts, I’ve added a statement on AI to my website.
Next task: updating the copyright page in all my BVC ebooks to state that I do not grant permission for them to be used in training AI models, and any such use is prohibited.
Calling these systems Artificial Intelligence bothers me. They seem to me more like digital versions of those cleverly designed automata mechanisms like the chess playing Mechanical Turk that cheated by hiding a human player in its mechanism—the equivalent of training a large language model on the work of real humans? I’d prefer calling these systems Fake or Faux Intelligence, FI; or maybe IM, Intelligence Mimicry.
Oh, it’s all marketing, to be sure. But unfortunately, the term has stuck.
