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irishcoffee 6 days ago

> the only model that legitimately passed the Giraffe prompt.

10 years ago I would have considered that sentence satire. Now it allegedly means something.

Somehow it feels like we’re moving backwards.

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echelon 6 days ago | parent [-]

> Somehow it feels like we’re moving backwards.

I don't understand why everyone isn't in awe of this. This is legitimately magical technology.

We've had 60+ years of being able to express our ideas with keyboards. Steve Jobs' "bicycle of the mind". But in all this time we've had a really tough time of visually expressing ourselves. Only highly trained people can use Blender, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. whereas almost everyone on earth can use a keyboard.

Now we're turning the tide and letting everyone visually articulate themselves. This genuinely feels like computing all over again for the first time. I'm so unbelievably happy. And it only gets better from here.

Every human should have the ability to visually articulate themselves. And it's finally happening. This is a major win for the world.

I'm not the biggest fan of LLMs, but image and video models are a creator's dream come true.

In the near future, the exact visions in our head will be shareable. We'll be able to iterate on concepts visually, collaboratively. And that's going to be magical.

We're going to look back at pre-AI times as primitive. How did people ever express themselves?

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concats 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

― Douglas Adams

	▲	vintermann 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Is that how it works this time, though? * I'm into genealogy. Naturally, most of my fellow genealogists are retired, often many years ago, though probably also above average in mental acuity and tech-savviness for their age. They LOVE generative AI. * My nieces, and my cousin's kids of the same age, are deeply into visual art. Especially animation, and cutesy Pokemon-like stuff. They take it very seriously. They absolutely DON'T like AI art.

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Rodeoclash 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Where is all this wonderful visual self expression that people are now free to do? As far as I can tell it's mostly being used on LinkedIn posts.

	▲	scrollaway 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		It’s a classic issue that you give access to superpowers to the general population and most will use them in the most boring ways. The internet is an amazing technology, yet its biggest consumption is a mix of ads, porn and brain rot. We all have cameras in our pockets yet most people use them for selfies. But if you look closely enough, the incredible value that comes from these examples more than makes up for all the people using them in a “boring” way. And anyway who’s the arbiter of boring?

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conradfr 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is amazing and impressive. But also an unlimited source of trash and slop during my internet use.

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irishcoffee 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You basically described magic mushrooms, where the description came from you while high on magic mushrooms.

It’s just a tool. It’s not a world-changing tech. It’s a tool.

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SchemaLoad 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm struggling to see the benefits. All I see people using this for is generating slop for work presentations, and misleading people on social media. Misleading might be understating it too. It's being used to create straight up propaganda and destruction of the sense of reality.

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