Authenticity, proving authenticity, will be a big deal in future.
On another topic, when desktop publishing first came along in the 80s, everyone had a go at it…. anyone with access to a computer threw together documents full of fonts and fancy layout. They looked like crap.
Remember Print Shop Pro?
In time it became clear that DTP is a tool for expert designers. Same with AI art … everyone is getting fancy pictures done but in time they’ll lose interest and these tools will become tools for designers to drive.
> On another topic, when desktop publishing first came along in the 80s, everyone had a go at it…. anyone with access to a computer threw together documents full of fonts and fancy layout. They looked like crap.
People didn't stop desktop publishing. Almost everyone is doing it in some shape or form - from something as simple as drafting a CV, or writing a homework essay, or creating a simple form for their hobby club, is making use of text-layout technology where previously you would do this by hand (with a ruler, and handwritten/typewritten text) and then photocopied times however many copies you need.
Desktop publishing/typesetting has become so ubiquitous that it's effectively invisible and "just a thing that computers do nowadays". Perhaps the same thing will happen to AI art.
Have you actually tried to use these AI art tools? They are amazing but they rarely give you what you're looking for unless it's something obvious, like "A painting of statue of liberty in van gough style", even then it's not that great a of the time, extremely impressive, but these systems can't read your mind. Yes they seem to come close but the best results seem to be when you "create" with them, or else you just have to accept what's generated. Which is quite different to actually designing something.
It's an insanely crazy thing to watch the MJ Discord though, woah. However "draw a cartoon in the style of Ghibli" kind of get's boring and it's not original. It meses stuff up too, subtle enough to not be easy notice, but you do notice it eventuall.
You also realize many of these these model have a style of their own you have to work with, or work around to produce something new.
The framing is kind of weird - AI isn't a specific technology to begin with, so someone can't really correctly or incorrectly "discern six ways that artificial intelligence (AI) is used around you every day".
The greatest technological breakthrough we've seen in our lifetimes, it can make our lives so much better. And people can only see potential downsides, it's sad.
Technology hasn't really been improving most people's lives lately. In particular, the most notable impact this technology could possibly have is to make people reduntant.
Not 100% sure if that's technology, or capital owners keeping 98% of the profits. In theory we should live in a world of plenty, but when one man wants to have a trillion dollars to their name it gets difficult.
Technology makes it so more labour can be done with fewer humans, which increases competition for limited work, so capital owners can justify paying less for those jobs as long as they can find enough people willing to work for that amount.
You can blame capital owners for being greedy, and you should, but increasing technology is a major tool they are using to feed that greed.
Making people redundant, is the one thing every new technology has done. It will happen again. And in a good world it would be for the betterment of humanity.
Since there are negative effects as well, in our imperfect world, I can understand the nay-sayers. But that has never stopped anything.
Not every technology has made people redundant, often times they make the impossible possible, giving even more things for people to do. Regardless, I didn't intend to give any hint about how I think the world should be, I'm just describing how I think the world is.
> The greatest technological breakthrough we've seen in our lifetimes
It probably depends on how long your lifetime has been so far, but I can think of a few things that are greater technological developments than this in my lifetime. Integrated circuits, for a start.
I don't know why folks are so freaked out about it. Yes, some of these programs can act somewhat like a person in text but often their output is just garbage. Heck, even AI focused on image generation gets hands wrong much as human artists do (sometimes even worse). It's strange to see folks being freaked out or otherwise surprised by computers. Maybe I'm just too old to care or understand the response.
Just a funny / interesting example of something that happened with ChatGPT last night. I asked it to translate my resume to another language from English, and it interpreted my resume as, hey "let's write code now" and opened up a prompt and started doing things in the prompt in another language...it was wild.
Yeah, it's easy to make ChatGPT do wrong things which is why I'm not so concerned about it other than companies using it as an excuse to further strip down essential technicians for such platforms. I think ChatGPT can be a wonderful tool if corporations would stop pretending that capital can always replace labor which won't happen anytime soon since many C-suite folks are naive about most things in my experience.
I'm not freaked out, personally, but I am very concerned about the difficulty in detecting what is the work of humans and what is not. I think that's an incredibly serious problem, and I hope it's solved very soon.
On another topic, when desktop publishing first came along in the 80s, everyone had a go at it…. anyone with access to a computer threw together documents full of fonts and fancy layout. They looked like crap.
Remember Print Shop Pro?
In time it became clear that DTP is a tool for expert designers. Same with AI art … everyone is getting fancy pictures done but in time they’ll lose interest and these tools will become tools for designers to drive.