I like that the author saw a cartoon of a skeleton looking at the back of a tablet and thought “this is good enough to describe as a white walker reading Wikipedia”
No. People create art as a form of expression and other people enjoy it because it resonates with them. Nobody that’s inclined to artistically express a thought or feeling is going to give up on creativity because maybe somebody that isn’t really interested in creating art might be able to type words into their computer and spit out something vaguely similar.
That aside, humans are necessary for making up new forms and styles. There was no cubism before Picasso and Braque, or pointillism before Seurat and Signac. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone argue that if you trained a diffusion model on only the art that Osamu Tezuka was exposed to before he turned 24 it would output Astro Boy.
Apologies if I wrote my original comment poorly, but that was I was trying to communicate.
Not only was this person able to write good comedy, but they knew what tools were available and how to use them.
I previously wrote:
> "AI won't replace you, but someone who knows how to use AI will replace you." ...
The missing part is "But a person who was excellent at their pre-AI job, will replace ten of the people down the chain."
The possible analog that just popped into my head is the nearly always missed part of the quote "the customer is always right" ... "in matters of taste."
> a person who was excellent at their pre-AI job, will replace ten of the people down the chain
I think comedy is a great example of how this is not the general case.
In this instance, the video you posted was the result when a comic used a tool to make a non-living thing say their jokes.
That’s not new, that’s a prop. It’s ventriloquism. People have been doing that gag since the first crude marionette was whittled.
The existence of prop comics isn’t an indicator that that’s the pinnacle of comedy (or even particularly good). If Mitch Hedburg had Jeff Dunham’s puppets it probably would’ve been… fine, but if Jeff Dunham woke up tomorrow with Hedburg’s ability to write and deliver jokes his life and career would be dramatically changed forever.
Better dummies will benefit some ventriloquists but there’s no reason to think that this is the moment that the dummies get so good that everyone will stop watching humans and start watching ventriloquists (which is what would have to happen for one e-ventriloquist putting 10 comedians out of a job to be a regular thing)
I like that they call openai’s image generator ground breaking and then explain that it’s prone to taking eight times longer to generate an image before showing it add a third cat over and over and over again
I’ve never quite understood the meme about Warren Buffett being a More Ethical Billionaire™. The defenses are always like “It’s not fair to judge him solely for BNSF giving rail workers one paid sick day per year because he also owns GEICO, which settled a suit last year about (among other things) illegally surveilling and telling employees to call the police on people that approached them about unionizing”
> I just don't think this is the sinister power move they are claiming.
Where did they claim that this is a sinister power move? Those words don’t appear in the article or in any filings as far as I can tell. Are you saying that it isn’t the sinister power move that you imagine that they could have claimed?
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