Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
cross-posted from: https://thebrainbin.org/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/1223961
Noooo........... Why the fuck would someone use AI for this instead of, I dunno, inviting local artists, including the local kid artists (seriously, if you're a creative as a kid, participating in a big community art project like a town mural would be a dream opportunity), to paint that mural?! Leave AI out of shit like this!!
Seems like the title is misleading. Apparently it's put up privately by a landlord and not actually a community owned/operated thing.
I've been in a few stores/public places that used self-generated images for murals like this. The reason they're doing it is because it's free. It used to be some graphic design student's first job but they can now cut that position entirely. Who cares if the end result is liable to summon unholy extradimensional horrors?
Letting the community paint a mural could also be free at least to the people participating, and as I stated, would be a dream opportunity for particularly creative kids in the community, although I don't know about current kids given I grew up at a time when huge wooden playgrounds put up by the community were a thing.
Sadly the one where I live got torn down and replaced with a modern plastic facility after 25 years, but the art tile walls and towers made by the members of the community who originally built the wooden facility, were all preserved.
-sigh- Lawton, OK, you used to be cool once.....
If I were that ten-year-old, I still would rather actually draw, paint, or craft for real than to let an LLM do it for me. Hell, I still would rather create for real than let an LLM do it for me even now when I'm much older.
No, but really, it's more fun especially for an actual kid, to play with things like crayons, paints, or any other sort of art or craft supplies, than to type in a prompt, let alone for older people.
If you ever get the glitter out though, keep it in a tray or else you'll be cleaning it up for the rest of your life, lmao.
Ed...Ward...
My sad prediction:
AI won't get much better. Its current state is the peak, since it's already been trained on everything the internet has to offer, regardless of copyright, and is already consuming unsustainable amounts of compute, and therefore energy.
But it also won't go away. We're just not living in a world where a product that sucks will fail anymore, as long as it's pushed by big corporations.
And they'll keep pushing it, cause if they stop, they'll go bankrupt.
So where does it lead? A shift in culture! AI will keep being pushed down our throats until we start to accept it. It'll become an "art style". I think it already is.
Just look at this year's Coca-Cola christmas ads. One of the largest corporations in the world uses AI for its most important ad campaign of the year, regardless of all the obvious errors in it. This is the new normal, and anyone criticizing images of humans with crab claw hands will just be called a luddite.
That’s a little extreme.
“AI” that actually works is much more modest than you think: it’s trained on small, focused, curated, legally licensed datasets mixed with synthetic data. It’s small and task focused. It’s heavily augmented and constrained to actually do what it’s supposed to, and not a bajillion other things.
It’s getting lower power. If bitnet takes off, inference costs will plummet, which means a lot will probably just be done on phones, with more control from the user.
Don’t get me wrong, AI is still going to be sloppy shit. This kind of stuff is going to be the norm, and way worse.
…But I think a “race to the bottom” will be a mixed bag, not pure cyberpunk. There’s a point where some uses get so cheap and “good enough,” it’s just too cheap to sell. Like someone trying to charge money for basic text editors. This is why the tech bros push the existential AGI angle so hard, as “devolving” into sets of specialized tools means their profit scheme implodes… Hence, hopefully, lazy landlords will have something a little less shitty to make an ad with than ChatGPT.
Alternate title:
“Is it possible to vandalize your own building? For one landlord, the answer is an emphatic YES”
Chthonic: of or relating to the underworld
Oh thank you for defining this
You got it.
I appreciate the writer using a thesaurus, but figured a close-at-hand definition couldn't hurt.
“What in the AI is going on here"
Lol this is my new favorite phrase. :-P
Please make this thing the community logo