Anna J. Ma

Hi! I’m very sad to have missed this. Is it possible to still get a link to the recording even if I didn’t get a chance to register online before the webinar took place?

I also agree his line of argument could have been made stronger by focusing on how GenAI is predicated on theft from artists but for some reason I guess he thought the NeurIPS audience would be more receptive to a philosophical take on what qualifies as art? Either way the man was in the lion's den.

Come see @shira-a.bsky.social present our co-authored paper "Evaluating Refusal" at the #NeurIPS2024 EvalEval workshop today in E Meeting Room 16! Drawing from Indigenous and feminist studies, Shira will be presenting on why refusal needs to be incorporated into evaluation frameworks of #GenAI.

Ted Chiang delivering a sharp keynote speech at the #GenAI and Creativity workshop at #NeurIPS2024 on why #GenAI is not art, arguing that art requires perspiration and is more than just inspiration. Art is the culmination of a large number of intentional choices— not a short text prompt.