There seems to be two ways of viewing generative AI. The first, which many anti-AI people take is that Generative AI will be captured by big business and will decimate the creatives financial streams. The outcome will be less art with less meaning and shallow profit seeking art will rule the world.

Then there is the flip side. Everyone in them has a story they want to tell. Everyone has a artistic vision they want to produce. Everyone has a song they want to write and sing. Everyone, if given enough time, talent, practice, resources, and yes, money, could produce something beautiful, deep, and unique to themselves. But they don’t. Why? Because there are barriers. Barriers among barriers. It is the hope of the “AI bros” that AI will tear down those barriers and allow more people to create.

But because these people have never created before, their work will obviously not be up to pair with professionals. Just give it time. In the words of Randall Munroe: If we want to write Ulysses, our generation might not be sexting enough.

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Manager: Before we put these models into something that can implement code, we should test what it would do.

LLM: Tries to do bad things, but it can’t because that functionality hasn’t been implemented

Researchers: We found it doing bad things. Perhaps fix that before function implementation

This thread: The researchers are lying! It didn’t do bad things because it can’t! That isn’t implemented!

Manager: Yes… hence the test.

Wait, I came here to make a joke that he had the same name as the former Lib Dem leader… it actually is him?