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I’ve used ‘AI’ at work and as a hobby.

It’s fun to experiment and see what it does.
For creative things it is like a big encounter table that some rpg’s have.
You give it a hint and it will generate some nonsense that you can use to build on.

I would never trust anyone to use the generated output in a semi-professional product.

It is scarily good at writing code, but it can easily f*ck up and invent things that make you go ‘hmm’.
It needs constant human super vision to be somewhat functional.

One thing that I do wonder about is that this must have been what it was like when photography was invented.
We went from having to pose for days so a skilled artist could paint a portrait to mere minutes.

Heck … if you spent any time on art forums you will see similar arguments about the use of post-processing for photos.
As such I have no doubt that ‘AI’ that generates ‘art’ will end up in a similar situation once we get have copyright attribution and training data figured out. The only problem is that companies have cheated their way to the current state.

They have blatantly stolen more data than even the biggest leech on the peer-2-peer torrent network, but unlike mere mortals they haven’t been sent convicted for theft and sent to prison with a multi-billion fine.