17 March 2023 - image generation 3

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For every generation, there is an equal and opposite degeneration. Ask anyone who remembers the 1960s. For AI image generation, the degeneration will be that nobody will bother to learn to draw. With no new input available, the AIs will be trained on the same old images and on the output of their relatives, and progress will come to a halt with a sound like a dead tree falling in the forest with no one to hear. Either that, or small children will rule the art world.

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