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I don't know--I'm super optimistic! Not only is it incredible in a way I haven't found technology incredible for a long time, but it has the potential to disrupt and simplify the hugely labor- and talent- intensive creative process. Today, if you need a logo made or some clipart for your web page, to do it the correct, legal way, you have to either get lucky with some stock artwork or scout around for an artist, evaluate portfolios, select a few and buy some samples, decide on one and iterate back and forth until you have something you like. Then you have to have legal agreements in place, make sure rights and copyright and royalties and all that shit is decided, be careful about how you use that art (do I have the rights to put it on a billboard too?) Imagine a far future where any creative work can just be freely generated with a text description, and the output is unencumbered by IP rights. Type something in and get an infinite scroll of outputs, select one, and you're done. Extend it to all sorts of media: Music! "Two minute upbeat song about lawn care, jazz style." Out pops an infinite scroll of jingles. "Lullaby for 2 year olds about dogs." "20 minute opera in German, about cycling, in the style of Mozart." Movies! "Three part superhero series where the main character walks backwards." "Romantic comedy but with talking turtles." "Sci fi movie about underwater colonies with a shark villain." This could be the future if intellectual property lawyers don't fuck it up with artificial scarcity and "digital rights" like they fucked up the copying of bits across the Internet. |
This isn't real AI and it didn't come up with these images by imagining them. It's a blob of every image on Google Image Search stuck together in a way that's managed to differentiate between them (in the calculus sense).