Most people don’t know how to identify something that was made with AI or by AI, even when it’s explicitly labeled.
This little burst of anger is just a “trend” because everyone is talking about it. Generative AI, for example, has existed for so long that the first large-scale generative model used in industry dates back to the late 1980s. And at that point, the model that gave rise to what we now use as generative AI was adapted from an even older model that already existed for time-series analysis from the early-to-mid 1970s.
“ChatGPT,” among other things, is not an AI, but a tool that uses AI for its function, which is chatting. In fact, even today, fewer than half of the people who say they are using AI are actually using AI. What they are using is a “dynamic and probabilistic lookup table” created by an AI to regurgitate text, or to pixelate an image—like those old TVs with no signal—something called noise.
Saying that ChatGPT is AI is like saying that a car pedal is internal combustion. This distinction is vital, because the “tool” is designed to simulate humanity (the chat), which masks the fact that the process behind it is purely mathematical and not cognitive.
As for things not being original? That’s a joke, right?
Almost everything people think was created by one person actually already existed and was created by someone who was never credited for it.
This is so absurd that even the Pythagorean Theorem—Pythagoras himself never claimed it was his, and it was created more than 500 years before he was born.