I hate AI slop like everyone else but the technology is here now. I wonder what artists said when photographs were invented...
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I have issues with these LLMs but what he is saying here isn't wrong. If people can use photoshop to create art, this is fundamentally no different.
I think people mistake the llm image generators as capable of generating a final output. They are a playground and shouldn't be consider the final product anymore than amateur developers using it to write an entire program. Peole that have tried to shipping the LLM output as a final product have face the level of ridicule it deserves.
The more I see these discussions and the way everyone seemingly talked past each other, the more clear it seems these LLMs will create a measurable divide between those who can use them to improve productivity and those who refuse.
Each side of the divide will point at the other side's extremists as proof for why their side is the correct side. But as with most things, the path is somewhere down the middle.