“I did some work with an artist Reid Southen... and we showed that these systems... plagiarize in the image domain and now we know it's true in the musical domain... [A]ll of these... [images] came out of {{w|Midjourney}}. They're... repeating, spitting back things that they've seen in copyrighted materials. ...There is no embarrassment or shame in these systems, or the people that are making them.”

American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author

Gary Fred Marcus is an American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author. He is known for research at the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. His work focuses on how the mind works and on the limits and possibilities of AI. He writes and speaks about the relationship between human cognition and machine intelligence, bringing together ideas from psychology and neuroscience.