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I don't quite get why this is downvoted; it may not be the absolute truth, but in my personal anecdotal experience, there is quite some truth to it. I have h
by fifticon 3y ago
I don't quite get why this is downvoted;
it may not be the absolute truth, but in my personal anecdotal experience, there is quite some truth to it.
I have had a lot of fun playing around with image generation and chat gpt.
But have also had the non-surprising "Hedonistic Fatigue"
that comes with excess access to something originally valued.
I have now been able to generate 4 and 5 digit numbers
of pictures of awesome colourful steam locomotives and epic dungeon vistas,
but now find myself fatigued by "what on earth am I going to use 5000 dungeon pictures for?",
coupled with the dread of being forced to CHOOSE from 5000 options.
And I learn the known principle,
that when you can choose from 4 options, you are happy you
picked the best of 4,
but when you can pick from 5000 options,
you are left feeling inadequate with "I almost certainly was
not able to pick the best of those 5000 options,
and trying to do so would exhaust me".
So suddenly, picking something from your menu of options,
feels dreadful and fatiguing..
(I get the same feeling sometimes, when trying to pick a movie to watch
out of 16.000 options).
So yeah, no doubt the AI sketch/refinement tool will be merged into our
creative process,
but for the time being, I feel a second generation of alienation-estrangement
with my "available options".
- Teever 3y agoI'm going to assume that like me you're not an artist, or at least not the kind of artist who can generate 5000 dungeon pictures by hand. I've been thinking about it the same as you but something that I think we're missing here is what can the person who can already make 5k pictures by hand do with this kind of tool? It makes me think of the later albums that Frank Zappa produced with a Synclavier. That guy went hog-wild on that thing and banged out some unbelievable albums. What would he have been able to do with AI generated music technology if it was the Synclavier of his time? What are the Frank Zappas of our time going to do with AI? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa#Synclavier_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa#Synclavier_works
- Shorel 3y agoYes, having to check 1840 options is about 1830 too many =)