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  • That art generated by artificial intelligence (e.g. images, paintings, poetry, text) which is specifically based on the work of an artist should be legally considered intellectual property of that artist

    Infoslide

    Intellectual Property Law (otherwise known as copyright law) protects the ability of an individual to own and profit from their own creativity and intellectual effort. For example, IP law often protects artists from having their profits stolen off them by someone else who might copy lyrics of their song. For the purposes of this motion, if someone were to generate art from artificial intelligence 'in the style of Vincent Van Gogh', intellectual property of that art would like solely at the hands of Vincent Van Gough

    ASO 2023 · 2 · 2023-01-14

  • This house would give androids citizenship.

    Infoslide

    In the future, after a huge decline in the birth rate and the rapid development of technology, robots have taken on an extremely human-like appearance. They are now androids with more advanced, or at least equal, physical, intellectual, and emotional abilities. Androids are equipped with replaceable body parts and cannot feel physical pain. However, they are able to feel emotional trauma like humans. The "android" economy is incredibly important to the functioning of the economy as a whole. Androids make up a large percentage of the workforce but deal with hate crimes and poor living conditions. With citizenship, "androids" would be able to access all the legal and social rights that naturally-born humans have.

    Winter Bonanza 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-01-01

  • Assuming feasibility(it is possible), This House Supports (THS) the creation and usage of a robot friend.

    Infoslide

    In this debate, a "robot friend" is a robot designed to be a smart and adaptable companion for a human. They are programmed to talk and connect with their human friends, and they can do the following things: Adjust to the specific wants and likes of their human friend. Communicate with their human friend. Offer support to their human friend.

    Vietnam Middle School Debating Championship Season 2 - 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-01-01

  • This house prefers a world where art cannot be generated by artificial intelligence and would always require significant human input

    Infoslide

    Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems that can perform a lot of activities including generation of artwork

    Korea National Championships BP 2022 · U14 Finals · 2022-12-19

  • This house prefers optimistic over pessimistic narratives around the future of AI systems (e.g ChatGPT)

    Infoslide

    ChatGPT is a natural language processing Artificial Intelligence model which is capable of generating human-like text responses in a conversational manner.It can perform functions such as writing articles, text translation, summarising data, creating art and even programming.ChatGPT exploded in popularity, reaching a million users in just 5 days.

    IWSDO 2022 · Junior Finals · 2022-12-09

  • This house prefers optimistic over pessimistic narratives around the future of AI systems (e.g ChatGPT)

    Infoslide

    ChatGPT is a natural language processing Artificial Intelligence model which is capable of generating human-like text responses in a conversational manner.It can perform functions such as writing articles, text translation, summarising data, creating art and even programming.ChatGPT exploded in popularity, reaching a million users in just 5 days.

    IWSDO 2022 · Grand Final · 2022-12-09

  • A: That we regret the prevalence of malevolent AI in popular culture (eg-Skynet in Terminator, Ultron in the Avengers, etc)

    Campbelltown Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2022 · Open Grand Final · 2022-11-23

  • This house would help build Roko's Basilisk

    Infoslide

    "A post written by user Roko goes viral on social media, reaching an audience of several billion people. Roko hypothesises that, in future, there will be a superpowerful AI known as Roko's Basilisk, created in order to optimise human society. The Basilisk would be supremely powerful - it could not only subject you to extreme torture, but could generate billions of perfect simulations of you and subject them all to horrendous torture too. In a means to ensure its own creation, the Basilisk would do this to any individual who knew the Basilisk might exist, i.e. who had considered it's possibility by reading the post, and chose not to help bring it into being. So, if you chose not to try to help bring the Basilisk into being, you and billions of perfect simulations of yourself would be tortured eternally - if the Basilisk came into existence, that is"

    Durham IV 2022 · Grand Final · 2022-11-19

  • This House Believes that progressive criminal justice reformers ought support algorithmic sentencing over judge determined sentencing

    Infoslide

    Sentencing algorithms determine criminal sentences by using personal data inputs of the defendant and the crime committed to create an optimum" sentence for the circumstance. The majority in the status quo use machine learning which trains algorithms on existing datasets."

    USUDC 2022 · 5 · 2022-11-05

  • This house prefers a world where Augmented Eternity is widely accessible

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of this debate, ‘Augmented Eternity’ refers to a technology which allows individuals to use data from their lifelong online presence to create a ‘digital mind’ that would continue to exist after their death. This digital being would be able to communicate based on predictions it can make from the data it was provided. The digital being is not 'sentient'.

    Hart House 2022 · Grand Final · 2022-10-14

  • This house believes that Dall-E and similar technologies will render the physical production of visual art by humans redundant

    Infoslide

    Dall-E is an AI which generates artworks based on text descriptions inputted by humans. The AI is trained on millions of images. The text description can be as specific as you like, allowing the generation of very detailed images in any style. Dall-E is one of several AIs recently developed which can do this.

    Officer's Cup 2022 · Round 1 · 2022-09-17

  • This house would take the blue pill over the red pill

    Infoslide

    You are a middle class, young adult with a family and a stable job. You recently found out the world you live in is an augmented reality called the Matrix, controlled by AI which has revolted against humans. The world outside is dominated by the hostile AI, but its power external to the Matrix is limited by the physical reality (e.g. it needs to physically find a person in order to locate them, and needs to physically catch them to harm them). You're offered a red pill that will take you out of the Matrix into the real world, and a blue pill that will make you forget the realization all together and return to your virtual life as though nothing happened. Either choice is irreversible, and you only get one pill which can't be shared with others.

    Royalty Pact Debating Academy Internals 4.0: League of the Legends 2022 · 2 · 2022-08-11

  • Given the existing technology, This house would allow individuals to implant in themselves a computer chip with the AI algorithm

    Infoslide

    AI processes datasets of human facial and verbal cues and uses it to develop an algorithm so that they automatically mimic what we perceive as appropriate emotional responses.

    Rahat - The Fundraiser Debate · Novice Finals · 2022-08-04