• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    4 months ago

    I look forward to more AI failures and flops and hope the public and financial backlash is intense for each every one of them. You cannot automate human creativity, and until the powers that be feel that in their wallets, we’re going to be getting more and more of this inane drivel while actual, talented writers lose job opportunities.

    The company has since promised to refund customers, but whether they’ll all actually get their money back remains to be seen.

    I’d be demanding it in full.

    • fluxion@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      They didn’t even proof read the promotional flyers to make sure they made sense. It’s an absolutely absurd level of laziness.

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        4 months ago

        You’re describing AI. We are in the get rich quick period of AI usage.

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      4 months ago

      This was clearly a scam from the start. AI art is a tool, just like a paintbrush - if you don’t know what you’re doing (or if you just dont give a fuck, like this event), the outcome will understandably be shit.

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      4 months ago

      This wasn’t a failure of AI. It was just a low-effort charade. If you want to put in the least amount of effort possible in such things, AI is there for you.

      If they had put in any effort whatsoever they would’ve taken the first “draft” BS generated by the AI, made some minimal changes, then fed it back into the AI for further improvement.

      Chat AIs are just that: Chat. You’re supposed to go back and forth in conversation with the AI in order to get a good result. It appears the organizers of this event put together some terrible prompts and didn’t even bother to spend an extra ten minutes refining things.

      AI is a tool like any other. This pathetic event is a textbook case of how AI can’t replace humans entirely (not yet, anyway). You still gotta put in some effort.