I want AI to help me figure things out. Not make things up for me.
Apple is clearly looking at the figuring out part - a lot of useful features were presented (albeit with a lot of future tense in the statements). A big plus that it's being done in a private context.
But it's the made up art where everyone (rightly) focuses their attention. Given the huge number of creative people using Apple products, taking away our collective imagination feels like a huge misstep.
@chockenberry Not sure how this is different to the AI musicians in GarageBand. Or GitHub copilot.
Professionals might sneer at the output of a generative model. But for amateur it’s empowering.
There's an awful lot of elitism in an awful lot of sneering at the moment.
Excellent, glad to hear it.
But many people (the vast majority) aren't elite, and “good enough" is evidently more than good enough for people who just want to enjoy themselves.
Denigration of utilities that may help the quotidien is just obnoxious.
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Good example, thank you.
If you're creating a corporate communication, you want to be sure that it would be “perfect" for the native speaker (although the translation industry has its fair share of gaffes as well — and an automatic service might still be useful for a first pass).
If you just want ask how much it would cost for a shirt to be made in a particular fabric in a tailor's in Beijing, the "slop" is likely to be good enough.
@clarko @chockenberry From an artist’s perspective, generative AI (GAI) is not empowering, it’s disempowering and causes devaluation of something important to us.
Empowerment happens when you give people the tools to create for themselves. GAI takes away agency and turns the artistic process into just getting a picture, or getting some music, or getting a document. It turns art into just content to be consumed, where it’s being done for you. You cannot create that again without the GAI. It creates dependence and stifles any interest in the process, in the mechanics and theory, in fostering your own style and vision.
Professionals do not sneer at GAI, we look on it in horror as it strips away the craft that we love and turns the work into junk for consumption. As it robs people of the experience and the drive to make something that is uniquely theirs. As it robs them of understanding the why and how of expression.
@chockenberry I wonder if there's a prototyping argument here. I don’t, and will never have the artistic capabilities to draw things - but I can describe a scene and have generative ML create it.
BUT what if that then led to a page of “and here are artists that you could work with to create something unique”? I would fully use that, and pay an artist as a result.
@dcrooks @chockenberry “Rapid prototyping” seems to be a good term to describe what I’ve largely ended up using Stable Diffusion for: assisting in visualising whatever end results I want.
The other use is, of course, making porn. Stable Diffusion is the new Source Filmmaker.
I want ML (I refuse to call it AI, these models are in no way intelligent) to take out the trash so I have time to write.
I don't want them to write while I take out the trash.
@dimsumthinking @chockenberry Yes! I want a light touch where it’s like “hey, buddy, you used ‘sincerely’ three times in two paragraphs”
or like an in-text-field pop-up that’s like “do not post anything to Chock that has the slightest hint of innuendo, consider rephrasing” 🙊
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