Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1521562
C I N E M A A U D I O S O C I E T Y. O R G 69 ...quick and accurate search results and GPS tools are not what put our creative, warm- blooded hearts aflutter. What is of specific concern to our work as mixers is generative AI. " " iterations, offering us new information from which we are compelled to create, innovate, and problem-solve. This factor and that of our variable biology are what give rise to true originality. Groundbreaking innovations like OpenAI's ChatGPT, despite offering impressively quick and mostly acceptable quality work, are still prone to errors, abuse, and bias and cannot creatively innovate an entirely new approach or solution. They are seeded by a gathered data set, which is often limited. For instance, ChatGPT cannot access data or current events after September 2021. This is at the core of the issue of generative AI and why we as a people (producers, directors, editors, sound mixers, teachers, engineers, and anyone with a pulse) should protect the navigation of the creative arts by humans. As a child of the 1970's, I remember writing reports from a series of encyclopedias that my mother bought to help us kids with school reports. As an excellent student, I paraphrased and found a way to present the pertinent information in a way that offered no independent thought, deduction, or new perspective. However, I achieved the assignment