shrimpy
2yr ago
As someone quite familiar with the space, it's less of a tool and more the tool.
Progress will most likely continue at its current breakneck pace; there's no real architectural reason as of now why it shouldn't. And I suspect 2-3 years from now, image models will completely invalidate the need for Photoshop (nor will there be a need for Procreate, Lightroom, etc). You'll Just Add Language™ and achieve functionality several orders of magnitude more effective than the old point-and-click approach.
I anticipate a future where every seed for every concept in every imaginable latent space will be pre-generated, and humans will simply browse through the results until they find something they enjoy. Does that sound artistic to you?
And to your point on AI generated imagery having a "distinct appearance": that may have been true a handful of months ago, but the most recently open sourced Stable Diffusion model (v1.5) no longer suffers from any real stylistic slant. Try a free generator here if you're still skeptical. AI is really getting to the "blink and you'll miss it" stage, and it's exciting to see.
shrimpy
2yr ago
That's a fantastic idea. I often find my first drafts are extremely cogent and powerful, but upon re-editing, a lot of the power/meaning gets lost. I wonder how much self-censorship contributes to this.
shrimpy
2yr ago
Yes, absolutely. My experiential peak w.r.t music was 16-17 years old. I could lie in bed in the dark and have vivid visual hallucinations in-step with a song. These days, no matter how hard I try, I can't replicate that experience.
Part of me thinks this isn't just age -- it's also just overexposure to music in general. Most teenagers and young adults play music between 4-8 hours per day, every day, and that's definitely having an impact on our brains.
shrimpy
2yr ago
Yes, especially last episode. The degree to which the characters are purposefully kept morally gray -- like Rhaenyra pressuring Sir Criston into sex, for instance, yet she's also the main character and we're presumably rooting for her -- is extremely fascinating. I've been genuinely excited every week thus far.
Spraying things down is understandable, even after it was shown to have little effect. The cost of being wrong was much higher than the gains of being right.
Put another way: COVID was framed as a deadly disease from the outset. Most people (health ministers included) still believed this more than a year in. So a few minutes & a few milliliters of sanitizer meant little if it could reduce the likelihood of infection by even 1%.
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