In other news, an AI booster got publicly humilitated after prompting complete garbage and mistaking it for 8-bit animation:
And now, another sidenote, because I really like them apparently:
This is gut instinct like my previous sidenote, but I suspect that this AI bubble will cause the tech industry (if not tech as a whole) to be viewed as fundamentally hostile to artists and fundamentally lacking in art skills/creativity, if not outright hostile to artists and incapable of making (or even understanding) art.
Beyond the slop-nami flooding the Internet with soulless shit whose creation was directly because of tech companies like OpenAI, its also given us shit like:
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Google's unholy 'Dear Sydney' ad, and the nuclear backlash it got.
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Apple crushing human creativity for personal gain and being forced to apologise for it
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Mira Murati openly shitting on artists as gen-AI steals their artwork and destroys their livelihoods
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Gen-AI boosters producing complete shit and calling it gold (with Proper Prompter and Luma Labs providing excellent examples)
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And so much goddamn more, most of which I've likely forgotten