None of them feel like tools, at best you have to force them to be that, but are still really bad at it, see vibe coding and “AI-assisted” or higher effort AI images.

It’s also like they skipped a few steps too. I think an actual synonym search could be way more useful than a sycophantic chatbot built into my text editor (wonder if something like that already exist). At least in case of animation I heard some frame interpolation tool actually made for artists got trashed due to their makers wanted to hop onto the still in-infancy full-on generative AI bandwagon.

However I have to give it to them when it comes to amazing outsiders. They often already thought digital art or composing on the PC was something like what the AI was, only they didn’t know what button to press.

  • ZDL@lazysoci.al
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    4 days ago

    There is a plan, but it is not the plan people think it is.

    There’s an initialization people at large need to learn: TESCREAL. It’s essentially a religious movement (though the loose association of people in it would not agree to that label) that comes straight out of the pages of LessWrong, which is itself effectively an AI religious cult, complete with its own eschaton in the form of a godlike AI at the end of time that will resurrect all of humanity in the form of algorithmic simulacra, eternally punishing those who did not work toward helping it come into existence. (But no, it’s not even slightly a religion. 🙄)

    So all these AI techbrodouches? Their fanatical devotion to the “AGI” that’s coming just around the corner? Their utter contempt for any form of consequences their literally fantastic beliefs and actions may hold? There’s a reason for that, and that reason aligns with the neologism TESCREAL.