The technology inherently tunes into commonalities that associate its training data with incoming prompts and contexts.
An operator can push this pretty far with elaborate and carefully designed inputs, but the system is always going to be gravitating towards the patterns it represents most well.
When you or I look at our first bunch of outputs, we don’t immediately pick up on the nodes it likes to gravitate towards because there are many many of them, and we meed more of our own training data to become better discriminators.
But as these tools become ubiquitous, people will start to get to get this inkling sense of when something feels a little AI-ish. You can already see people do that with ChatGPT and SD/Midjourney output that wasn’t carefully produced. You probably do it yourself.
So far, there’s no real way to conceive of these technologies as not being subject to that kind of signature.
Like you and me, they’re still capable of incredible variety, but also like you and me, each model will have its own signature that can be more or less discerned.
For the arts, that kind of signature means that there will be a continued attention to human artists alongside these systems, because they all bring their own recognizable qualities and aesthetics.
An operator can push this pretty far with elaborate and carefully designed inputs, but the system is always going to be gravitating towards the patterns it represents most well.
When you or I look at our first bunch of outputs, we don’t immediately pick up on the nodes it likes to gravitate towards because there are many many of them, and we meed more of our own training data to become better discriminators.
But as these tools become ubiquitous, people will start to get to get this inkling sense of when something feels a little AI-ish. You can already see people do that with ChatGPT and SD/Midjourney output that wasn’t carefully produced. You probably do it yourself.
So far, there’s no real way to conceive of these technologies as not being subject to that kind of signature.
Like you and me, they’re still capable of incredible variety, but also like you and me, each model will have its own signature that can be more or less discerned.
For the arts, that kind of signature means that there will be a continued attention to human artists alongside these systems, because they all bring their own recognizable qualities and aesthetics.