I legitimately do not understand how this is a thing that people want. Never in my life have I thought to myself ‘I’d really like a realistic looking photo of myself doing something that did not happen.’ Like, outside of scammers, why is this something somebody would want?
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I guess they should have asked the AI to come up with a prompt that isn't super creepy and stalkerish.
our democracy is already straining under the flood of misinformation and over-information; this will just sink the final nail in the coffin. my parents already can’t tell current ai slop from actual news and video
The thing is it doesn't matter. People already couldn't tell if things were real or not. Facts have been out the window for a long time.
This doesn't change anything. People are just stupid.
Only thing I have ised this for was making funny edit to have fun with my family and removig unwanted elements from photos (people on beach or trash in alleys), but I can imagine people will use this to fake their online lives even more.
This is a tool, and like all tools, it has equal ability to be used for the good or for the bad. If all you ever look for is the bad, then you will never realize the good.
What is the purpose of AI generated images? When it comes to LLMs I can sort of understand them as Siri was popular long before AI, but what function does AI generated images fill in a normal person's life?
Anything you'd normally google an image for. You want a background or an icon or an image for a character. Anything a business would want to pay someone for, logos, branding etc. People who lack artistic skills and want the easy way to get an idea "on paper". And of course porn
It's mostly the porn.
Hmmm, I understand. I think I'm just a little strange as I never really use images for projects, and if I search for images I need inspiration, something AI can't do as it just gives what I ask.
Pretty much everyone at the DnD tables I frequent is in love with slop for their characters. Or environments. I shudder. "No it's not too bad, look at this". Of course it's not all too awful looking, that's why AI keeps removing artists of jobs. But people using AI for quick images of their characters don't directly affect this, they don't care about this, or understand any of it. As an artist I can see the convenience for them, and if it wasn't for the upheaval AI is causing, the morals behind it and who profits, I wouldn't have a problem with people using it in this way.
Fuck, that's depressing. In a setting as creative, authentic, and human as D&D, people are acquiescing to chatbots? Weird.
Avoiding to Google, novelty just enough to keep users in the ecosystem another 3 minutes on average.
Remove the damage from the items you’re hawking on Craigslistzuckmarketplace until the buyer’s driven an hour and it’s too late
See a single use case that makes sense here? (Forcing copy/paste)
https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/image/
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I tried out the photos app to make a picture a video. It just kept making me blow bubbles in almost every video. It's very useless as it only has "subtle movement" or "I'm feeling lucky" Not impressed.
lol @ their Google Photos AI attempt, “now you can modify your photos so they appear to portray something that never happened!”
(Naw not restoration or removing blemishes or crowds or fixing an unfortunate aspect, like “now you’re at the beach when you weren’t!)
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