I grew up in the printing business. My Dad, Joe, had a letterpress business. I would watch the typist compose on a linotype machine and produce galleys of molten lead letters that later would be placed on large metal trays arranged in the correct order for printing. The sheets were taken to the large letterpress machine that would ink the trays with the lead letters. The letterpress pressed the paper on the letters on the trays, moved the inked paper over small jets of flames to dry the ink, and deposited the finished printed paper in a neat pile for cutting, collating, and binding.
He had printer's ink in his blood, as he was found of saying. He also had an uncanny talent for identifying the weight of paper and its cloth content by the mere touch of his fingers. He was always right. And this is the point; he could always immediately see the hidden watermark on the paper identifying its origin.
That's the point. Any composition by artificial intelligence has to be "watermarked" to identify its origin.
We can address the ethics and plagiarism issue with the simple expedient of the modern-day equivalent of water making.
No need for the honor system in school. No need to try any other way to prevent people from using AI for composition in school or anywhere else we do not want it. The same method can be employed on all compositions. Just find the Watermark system and do it promptly.
Guardrails on AI usage can be put in place and enforced if we can identify when it is being used. The code of ethics can map out proper usage across the board. AI must have a signature, a Watermark, and a DNA. That, together with making it a federal crime to lie about AI usage, should help alleviate the fear that it will control us.
We need a federal convocation of leaders from all economic, professional, and educational sectors to meet and issue a manifest of ethical use of artificial intelligence in composition and communication. After that, implementation will be policed by using the identification watermark of AI. The promulgation of the Uniform Commercial Code may serve as a model.
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