Thus began a major debate about the so -called “digital divide.” An exploration that sought to grapple with all the implications of the movement of data to the digital realm in a process infused with the forces of the market and embedded with prejudices of ethnicity, language, geography, religion, and other elements of social stratification. [...] I realize that because for so many AI and machine learning is raising the same exact questions that digitalization and diffusion of and increasing dependence on computers as such raised before and the reaction, even by some of the purveyors and creators of the technology, is surprise. [...] The increased speed and accuracy and capabilities of the modern processors is such that now, the human part of the considerations about labor and thought are inefficient. [...] The trick in this implicit logic, or to reference the rock band the Police, the “ghost in the machi- ne” is the fact that as much as this processing is fast and accurate, it remains constrained by humanity. [...] What happens to the artistic creation of the socially marginalized when their creations can be modelled and substituted by a machine generated rendering of the same? Certainly, this is a threat to ALL creatives, but particularly to the social marginalized who already have serious impediments to the marketing and commercialization of their goods and services.
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