The OatmealLet’s talk about AI art.
krig@oatmeal I feel the way you feel about AI art about everything AI. The words are empty, the connections are trite and bland, it’s just an endless soup of mashed potato mix. I don’t think AI is good even for backgrounds or form emails or job applications or anything because whoever is at the receiving end will pick up on the complete lack of energy in it. I also don’t think it’s inevitable. It’s enormously costly and seems to generate absolutely zero profit so far. This period of subsidized AI everywhere can’t last.
Mark T. Tomczak@krig Some things really want zero energy though.
I do flowcharts to describe logical flows in programs. I want to spend exactly 0 seconds bumping boxes 5 pixels left or right; instead, I describe them in a domain specific language (usually Mermaid, sometimes dot, the graphviz language) and feed the description to a renderer to spit out the image.
People pick up on the complete lack of energy in it... Because all the energy went into the underlying architectural design, this is just a visual representation to make that design easy to understand for people unpracticed in building the picture in their minds from the text description.
I think a lot of AI is going to pour into those niches. If I could go one step further and build those flowcharts by handing my code to the generator and going "Here, figure it out, and I'll let you know if you captured the salient bits or need to do another pass," I would.
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