for some insight on how AI generated images can quickly ruin everything, go onto Threads and "like" one or two AI-generated landscapes; your feed will instantly turn into and endless stream of hyper-colorful, mind-bending AI-generated landscapes, each one more dramatically trippy than the last one, and within 5 minutes your brain just shuts off to the whole thing, images that if you saw an artist make just one would be amazing now looks like meaningless trash.
It's like playing Minecraft with full mods turned on that find you all the diamonds to mine automatically, or like drinking 4 liters of Coke and trying to enjoy a high quality pastry afterwards.
did you miss the part where Threads' feed algorithm is also "AI" as much as any other machine learning model is ? Human appreciation of art is linked to human creation of art and I think AI is going to show us that truth in new ways.
As a data scientist, no, I think that’s a dumb take. Without bothering to debate the definition of “AI”,
One is a synthesis of general knowledge that can be used to generate new ideas.
The other is a multi arm bandit and some collaborative filtering. Maybe there’s some AI there to classify what things are to begin with, but the decision of what to show is a very different kind of thing.
I don't want to use the term "dumb" for your take since I don't really address people that way but it does not matter if threads shows me ten AI landscapes or 100, the point is that once images displaying what would take a human dozens of hours of technical skill to produce are easily churned out by the thousands each hour, the entire value of such art for human enjoyment drops to zero as it's no longer special or interesting.
You made an argument that threads was showing people a hundred landscapes and that this decision was also ai ergo it’s an AI problem.
It might take humans a dozen hours to make a landscape but there are still thousands of human drawn landscapes and you’ll grow equally bored looking at all of those, no AI required.
It's like playing Minecraft with full mods turned on that find you all the diamonds to mine automatically, or like drinking 4 liters of Coke and trying to enjoy a high quality pastry afterwards.