Letters, April 22: There isn’t a artwork to AI-produced works

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Is a photograph value a thousand phrases if they’re all lies?

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The photograph by Boris Eldagsen that received the Sony World Pictures Award is a wonderful, haunting photograph, however it’s a pretend performed by AI. Though it seems that AI can produce magnificence, can it produce unique works? By its personal nature, it’s synthetic and so are its ideas because it, like ChatGPT, scans all the electronically recorded info and builds utilizing present blocks — or in much less well mannered phrases, it steals.

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It could be potential to pretend a Van Gogh as long as you will have all the recognized examples and a giant tin of yellow paint, however not the soul that made it. It will be enjoyable to create my very own pretend life with constructed pictures of myself on the wall with quite a few well-known folks, though lifeless as they couldn’t then inform on me.

Possibly it’s time for folks to get a life, and an actual one, even when it’s a bit boring.

Dennis Fitzgerald, Melbourne, Australia

‘Liberal-friendly’ CBC is not vital

Re: CBC is dividing Canadians, Opinion, April 19

Tasha Kheiriddin supplied a wonderful evaluation of the talk surrounding the CBC. There was a time when quoting the CBC was considerably authoritative. Now if you happen to quote the CBC, folks assume you’re telling a joke.

The CBC can not critically argue that it isn’t “government-funded media.” What it apparently objects to is the implication that “government-funded” means “government-influenced.” Kheiriddin is right {that a} extra correct description could be “Liberal-friendly media”; therefore the defences mounted by Trudeau and Singh.

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The actual query, as posed by the author, is whether or not we’d like a publicly funded broadcaster in our multi-channel universe. The reply, in my view, isn’t any. The CBC grew to become fully pointless as soon as Sportsnet received the rights to Hockey Evening in Canada.

Philip E. Carr, Calgary

In reward of honest journalism

We want extra journalists like Tasha Kheiriddin. She is honest to each conservatives and liberals and prioritizes the reality above making political factors. This takes intelligence, honesty and a willingness to place within the effort to grasp either side of a controversial problem. The CBC dividing Canadians is only one instance. It’s so a lot simpler to choose one facet and habitually discover fault with the opposite facet.

The highest precedence for politicians is successful the subsequent election, not being persistently truthful. If this creates division, they contemplate that collateral injury. The remainder of us, nonetheless, shouldn’t let politicians and extremists do our pondering for us. We must always resolve for ourselves what is true and what’s unsuitable. It will result in a much less divided nation.

Peter Mannistu, Calgary

Watch out for grand UCP spending

It’s somewhat apparent to most individuals that Premier Danielle Smith is making an attempt to purchase votes, albeit with plenty of confusion, to verify Albertans keep loyal to the UCP.

Conservatives are recognized for his or her fiscal constraint however the reverse is occurring at warp pace. Bear in mind what the automotive stickers mentioned within the Nineteen Eighties: “Please God, I promise to not piss all of it away” when Alberta was swimming in oil income. Voters beware.

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Liz Gibbs, Calgary

Hanging PSAC employees deserve help

In March 2020, federal public servants had been mobilized to help pandemic applications. I used to be employed in a compliance subject however I used to be instantly mobilized to help EI processing, CERB name centres, work-sharing and pensions. We labored rapidly to course of and overview roughly 8.9 million CERB purposes. We used our personal computer systems and cellphones with out reimbursement to get the work performed.

Public servants work arduous to supply applications and companies to all Canadians. We’re members of your group and help our native companies and organizations. We’re taxpayers and have advantages and retirement deducted from our pay like many working folks.

We’ve been right here for Canadians all through the pandemic, regardless of not having an lively collective settlement or wage enhance since June 2021.

Please help our strike, so we are able to all get again to doing what we love . . . supporting Canadians in our communities and from coast to coast to coast.

Jessica Hinz, Airdrie

King’s coronation not value the fee

Ought to the Canadian authorities be sending a delegation to London for the King’s coronation? In fact not, definitely not if you happen to’re going to spend $6,000 per night time to remain in a swanky lodge suite.

Ask your self what the purpose is of going there apart from a junket paid for by Canadian taxpayers. What a waste of taxpayer cash.

Keep house and use the tax income to assist Canadians who actually need the assistance, particularly proper now with utility prices, meals and rents climbing each month, somewhat than paying for a elaborate journey to London so you may hobnob with different so-called dignitaries

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Invoice Stemp, Calgary

Little to cheer at metropolis council

Metropolis councillors sound as if they’ve found a brand new physics particle. The act of transferring cash from one finances to a different has them patting their very own backs.

Each family has been doing this because the starting of time. I might additionally like metropolis council to amend their phrase “snow clearing.” They don’t clear snow — they simply form of push it across the place. 

Peter Szecsy, Calgary

Premier giving blended messages

U.S. media poisoning Canadians

When will Canada notice that American tv feeds are spawning the appropriate to behave in a violent, lawless trend by Canadians who not have the free will to make up their very own minds?

With the proliferation of such dreck as Fox Information, the weak minded are being coerced into believing the false and at instances imbecilic junk that passes for information.

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To make issues worse, Tucker Carlson’s hate documentary is on the market to stir the pot and assist create much more pointless animosity between the governing events. Please cease the stupidity and cancel your cable subscription to this mind drain.

Dennis J Gordica, Calgary

Constitution faculties eroding public schooling

It’s disheartening to witness the continued erosion of public schooling by means of growth of constitution faculties.

Constitution faculties had been by no means meant to be stand-alone services; somewhat, they had been meant as demonstration initiatives to analysis modern schooling strategies that may then be included into public faculty techniques. This academic inequality doesn’t bode effectively for our society sooner or later.

Think about if these hundreds of thousands of {dollars} had been as a substitute invested in public schooling to handle all method of studying types and pursuits. Separating youngsters into silos won’t put together them to stay and work productively collectively in grownup society.

Loretta Biasutti, Calgary