Dr. Caterina Moruzzi on the Philosophy of Human Creativity and AI: Authenticity, Accountability and What the Material Aspects of Creativity Mean

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Show notes:
0:00 – Caterina Moruzzi on knowing the needs that standards should respond to

1:30 results of the “Authenticity Unmasked” exhibition, part of the CREATEC project sponsored by UK’s BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) and UK Research and Innovation Programme
4:00 “Authenticity Unmasked” exhibition with 3 artists responding to how AI is changing authenticity: Georgia Gardner, Kinnari Saraiya, dmstfctn
8:00 interdisciplinary aim of BRAID 

9:20 “Embracing the Complexities of Authenticity” project
13:45 standards should consider the level of diversity and detail creators want included with their work-ex: creator’s intent for why they used certain tools
16:30 distributing credit and authorship
17:35 types of authenticity discussed in the Content Authenticities article
19:20 ex: Beethoven
22:40 questions raised by the use of AI to build on works by deceased artists like the Beethoven X: AI project
25:30 Matt Dryhurst and Molly Herdon’s project of training AI model on choirs recorded across the UK
27:25 change to “originality” definition
32:00 US copyright approach and A Single Piece of American Cheese
34:40 blockchain use as seen through ORAgen
39:00 pillars of provenance standard – metadata, watermarking and fingerprint
41:00 concerns of creatives from economic harm to loss of identity
44:00 jurisdictional approaches to generative AI
46:50 EU AI Act’s mandatory transparency requirements to establish content provenance under code of practice on marking and labeling AI outputs
48:45 input of creators on policy like through C2PA community
52:45 defining justice for the creative sector: equity of agency and accountability/responsibility 
55:40 mark CM hopes to make in her work-to find a proactive approach 
59:00 collaborative book project of CM to rethink what the material aspects of creativity mean
1:01:00 Stefania Salles Bruins’ questions to CM
1:03:25 CM: AI versus artistic workshops of artists from Rembrandt to Koons
1:07:00 CM: opt out v opt out issues as seen with AI functionality on phones 
1:10:00 Emily Gould's comments 
1:13:00 AI agents-possible danger of anthropomorphizing AI agents
1:16:00 authenticity
1:17:00 case study related to responsibility-reporter in war zone who doesn’t want certain metadata disclosed as seen with Georgia Gardner’s exploration of an author’s process when they don’t want all info disclosed
1:19:20 face value of ‘responsibility’ in regard to liability and the ability to receive feedback on your work from the environment such as critics even if you don’t disclose your identity
1:21:30 what creativity is, what a work of art is
1:25:20 SSB: Tolstoy’s definition of great art as requiring universality, sincerity and specificity

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