Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) web and social web) refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.
Recently, you’ve often seen an additional checkbox when logging in to a website: “Confirm you’re human” or “Confirm you’re not a robot.”
But can bots and AI click this?
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If they are honest they can’t.
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I’ve also seen authentication like this:
“Transfer 1 PLN to our bank account” (or 1 in the user’s currency).
After two days, 1 PLN is returned to the user’s bank account.
The assumption is: if you have a bank account, you’re a human.
But again, the question is: can AI create a bank account and make such a deposit?
How far has this progressed?
As a human I often have great problems getting through Google Captchas. “Click on the traffic lights”, etc. Don’t know if I type too fast or what it is. Logging into Discogs can take 10-15 captcha’s some days. So I installed a plugin to Vivaldi and now a bot logs in way faster than I ever could.
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Captcha is no longer a problem for AI. We’re learning, and the AI is learning too, but exponentially. 
Captcha has long been a problem for us humans… assuming I am actually human.
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These captchas are taking from us, training data for their AI.
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Music, movies, books… Everything created by AI. So now it’s time for Terminators (the hardcore version) or just David from the movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence
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The global AI image market is projected to be worth over $0.9 billion by 2030, a 254% increase from 2022 ($0.26 billion).
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In 2030, at least one blockbuster film is expected to be released, with 90% of the content generated by AI.
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Nearly half of artists (45.7%) found text-to-image technology very useful in their artistic process, with just under a third (31.5%) finding it somewhat useful.
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Around one in ten (11.2%) artists had used text-to-image technology to create something resembling a fully digital work.
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Less than one in ten (8.2%) artists said they planned to showcase their text-to-image generated work in art venues.
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More than half (53.6%) of artists felt that they made a fundamental input to the artwork created while using text-to-image technology.
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Midjourney is the most popular AI generator for creating images, holding more than a quarter of the market (26.8%).
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Dall-E 2 was the most popular text-to-image tool among artists, with more than a quarter (28.3%) citing it as their preferred tool.
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Nearly a third of text-to-image AI users considered the technology to be a major advancement for visual arts.
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70% of US adults think that artists should be compensated when generative AI uses their work to produce images.
I guess we have two groups here:
- Those 1 third who shamelessly use it and don’t give a damn from whom they stole their stuff and certainly don’t want to compensate them for that
- The other two thirds who think it’s useless and think artists should be at least credited, and even compensated (but no doubt AI will never do that, as AI companies don’t give a damn)
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We can’t stop this. It’s a snowball effect. Someone down the road will suffer greatly.
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Maybe we (as humans) should limit the field of AI’s activity only to the IT industry?
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Yes we should. As humans. 
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Why create art yourself? There’s AI. Why work? There’s Bitcoin.
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Everyone wants to be a famous musician, painter, or writer, admired by legions of fans.
But if you don’t have the talent and ability, give up. By using AI, you’re fooling yourself.
I want to be Jim Morrison, but I’m not using AI to do it.
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You may not like the outcome as he is dead… so be careful how you word that to AI.
AI has become so heavily moderated with forbidden terms on public platforms that it is completely uninteresting to me. It was fun to probe it in a way that wouldn’t be acceptable with a real human, creating joke pictures of famous politicians. Now it is not allowed unless you build your own AI.
Currently AI companies appear to want to centralize computing on their “clouds” with their rules. RAM and GPU prices increase for the rest of us.
I am still not fully believing how AI can create working program code. I’ve not done it myself, but I’ve heard of it. A small spelling error that we could correct in reading would make it not work at all.
Definitely not everybody. And even among the people who think they do, I suspect a decent fraction of them would change their minds if they took the time to really think about how it would affect their lives.
I’ve never been famous, but I’ve done things like host interactive live streams with 100s in the audience, and one time I met someone who seemed very slightly starstruck when he realized who I was. Both experiences had positive aspects to them, but were enough for me to think that I really wouldn’t like being actually famous.
On the other hand, I do want to create strange things that nobody else has thought of before. Since GenAI seems to mostly be useful for creating things that are similar to things in the training data, that doesn’t seem all that useful for what I want. (Though I did just have an idea to try training a model on bird calls, taxonomy, and other data about birds and dinosaurs to try to generate plausible dino vocalizations. Probably not worth the effort, but at least that would be different than any album I’ve come across before.)
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Recording your own CD? It’s no longer fashionable. Now, recording your own vinyl is trendy.
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