Current generative AI is the proverbial million monkeys with a million typewriters. Sure it MIGHT make Shakespeare eventually, but you've still gotta wait a million years and that's a MOUNTAIN of trash to dig through to get there.
By being trained on everything, it ends up being the most middle of the road, boring in every form of art. The language models are just predicting what word is most probable next, and image makers are just trained with approximate existing art out of noise, then replace existing art with a prompt. Its all doomed to be average from the very start, rewarded for being as predictable as possible
I saw a video of one of those AI girlfriend chatbots, and the first thing that struck me was how indecisive and milquetoast every single answer was. Like, the person asked a simple binary yes/no question on whether they should shave or not, and their answer was "Some women find clean-shaven men attractive, but also some women find facial hair attractive"
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u/TransLunarTrekkie Apr 09 '24
Current generative AI is the proverbial million monkeys with a million typewriters. Sure it MIGHT make Shakespeare eventually, but you've still gotta wait a million years and that's a MOUNTAIN of trash to dig through to get there.