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I find there is often very much a why with lots of the AI art I see. I often use it to try and visualize a dream I or one of my friends had. When I get the prom

I find there is often very much a why with lots of the AI art I see. I often use it to try and visualize a dream I or one of my friends had. When I get the prompt just right it's sometimes striking how close I get to what I was seeing. My friends will often use it for humorous situations that are happening to us in the moment. Overexagerations or putting one of us in a crazy situation. That's about as meaningful as using a gif keyboard, sure, but it gets a pretty good laugh out of me sometimes. There are recurring ones that have become a type of shorthand for us. I've used it for highly personalized Christmas cards and anniversary invites for other people that they just otherwise would never have made because they don't have $500 to pay an artist and Clipart is too impersonal to bother with. I've turned my mother's drawing into a beautiful realistic picture that she absolutely adored. I turned a baby picture from decades ago into a movie of a kid laughing which made my mother instinctively grab the phone from my hand with a big grin. To me AI art is only about the why. It brings entertainment, comfort, hilarity and agency. I would never charge anybody for it I'm just doing it because I find it a neat set of tools to mess around with. And the tools aren't just asking chatgpt to make something. You can spend months refining the craft of it similar to learning something like Photoshop.

wrp 1y ago
I am professionally interested in the narrative structure of texts, as a teacher and researcher, so I ask this out of genuine interest. I often see posts like this in discussions of LLM use and I wonder where they are coming from. They read like ad copy from a marketing department rather than a non-professional expressing personal feelings. Are you in marketing, or perhaps was this post generated by LLM?
- ragequittah 1y ago
  Neither. And this is another bias I keep seeing. Anyone who actually uses the technology in the way I do must be using it to write (I don't) or a shill. Nope I just have been using it for various things since the early days and I wonder why people are so allergic to being able to express themselves clearer and with more agency. Not everything has to be about money. LLMs and image generators can just be fun. I like that my writing is considered well structured / grammatically correct enough to be llm worthy though. I often think I make several obvious errors when I write off the cuff internet posts (and probably did).

wrp 1y ago

I am professionally interested in the narrative structure of texts, as a teacher and researcher, so I ask this out of genuine interest. I often see posts like this in discussions of LLM use and I wonder where they are coming from. They read like ad copy from a marketing department rather than a non-professional expressing personal feelings. Are you in marketing, or perhaps was this post generated by LLM?

ragequittah 1y ago
Neither. And this is another bias I keep seeing. Anyone who actually uses the technology in the way I do must be using it to write (I don't) or a shill. Nope I just have been using it for various things since the early days and I wonder why people are so allergic to being able to express themselves clearer and with more agency. Not everything has to be about money. LLMs and image generators can just be fun. I like that my writing is considered well structured / grammatically correct enough to be llm worthy though. I often think I make several obvious errors when I write off the cuff internet posts (and probably did).