>As impressive as a lot of these models are, I can't help but feel like they're going to end up making an incredible amount of sterile soulless content that mak

>As impressive as a lot of these models are, I can't help but feel like they're going to end up making an incredible amount of sterile soulless content that makes everyone's lives worse. My sentiments exactly. I think it's a bit of column A and a bit of column B. I'm reminded of the quote "everything has its pleasure and its price". The more expensive things are to produce, the the less of it there will be, but what is produced will be higher quality across the board. The less expensive it becomes to produce, the more of it will be, and the aggregate quality will be lower. It's not always a bad thing, but the downsides are plain to see when you look at the amount of spam and low-effort content out there. That said, we've all massively enjoyed the upsides too, so it's a balancing act. I think where things were at before the recent wave generative AI tools was perhaps right on the sweet spot of "it's democratized enough that anyone can have a go, but still requires effort and a degree of talent to do well". The knowledge (and entertainment) I've been able to access thanks for randoms on YouTube is pretty incredible, and I sort of always just accepted the avalanche of spam and clickbait that came with it. These new tools potentially push that effort/reward ratio to the point where the signal/noise ratio simply gets too high. Of course the "make money online" community is all over this stuff and today I watched a video of a guy showing how you could supposedly clone courses on Udemy using ChatGPT and other tools etc. The problem is the "course" would literally consist of generic advice, high-level information on a particular topic that suffices only as a very surface level introduction and isn't enough to help you build any functional skills in that domain, so it's effectively useless. The only person it's not useless to is him and as he would pocket a cool $5-ish per sale. It was somewhat sad and somewhat sick to hear him cackling away about being able to con people out of money while passing himself off as an expert. And yet, it's entirely what I would expect would happen.