As a few of us are already aware, AI is now capable of taking a simple sketch and converting it into a photorealistic image:
Click image to watch videoclip.
Ok, it's nowhere near perfect, but the technology is always improving. At some point in the future, we might be able to generate characters which not only follow a predetermined script but actually interact with the viewer. It'll be like a 2D precursor to the "holo-novel" concept from the Star Trek franchise. It's still early days, of course, but the potential is certainly there.
I'm curious how others in the community feel about this emerging medium. Has anyone else experimented with AI‑assisted art or animation? Do you see it as a threat, a tool, or something in between? I'd be interested in reading your thoughts on the subject.
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I prefer text, actually
I hope people will continue to post stories in text form. For one thing, I process things better in text form, I have a really hard time with videos. For another, there's an uncanny valley aspect to all the AI-generated pictures I see on this site, and I imagine it's only more so with AI-generated videos.
Generating a few stills is one thing
but going to full blown AI generated videos is IMHO several steps too far down a dark deep hole.
It won't be long before we get inundated with AI Slop generated stories. The 'human touch' will be vastly diminished in all sorts of fiction. given the Garbage In, Garbage Out of all current LLM's, we will see lots of very similar stories full of basic plot errors because there is no human editing skills left.
If you go onto YouTube and search for HOA stories, you will see what I mean. Lots of very similar stories full of errors and clearly AI generated and using AI voices that lack inclination, empathy, emotion and a whole lot more. They are also very boring because the AI models don't yet understand proper plot twists. That might change in the future. GIGO rules OK.
sorry people you asked for AI (it isn't proper AI but that's another story entirely) and that is what the future holds.
I will continue to write stories with ZERO AI input to the prose. It helps me keep my brain active.
Samantha.
Be careful what you wish for!!
As a huge advocate for the paperless-office in the late 1990s, just before the huge Y2K debacle, I have become increasingly paranoid of the whole fully digital and AI (a.k.a. Absolute Idiocy) hype that has started to permeate our lives in the post-COVID era!!!!
I have lost financial history, for lack of a paper trail from which to rebuild in case of a catastrophic failure.
I have got a lot of phishing calls, because of leaks in my digital patient files.
I have had attempts to debit my bank account, from [unscrupulous] telemarketers making me offers that seem legitimate, while recording the call and splicing my responses for apparent consent.
On my graduation from high school in 1988, one of my class-mates predicted [in jest] that within 10 years I would be married to a robot. (Which was following a line of long-term mobbing.)
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find legitimate information, because of all that ChatGPT [et al] generated digestive byproduct floating around on the Internet.
A lot of that computer generated content is utter male, masculine bovine digestive waste product, where the voice gives very wrong inflections and the transcribed subtitles merit a failing grade for spelling horrors at the grade school level. (waist or waste, sole or soul, facts or fax)
Not to mention the reputational murder done through deep fakes circulated on the various social media platforms.
And last, but not least, the ever increasing incidence of violent crimes by ever younger perpetrators, who are imitating what they see on TV and various video and social media platforms.
On top of all that is the fact of stolen intellectual property being used to train all the Absolutely Idiotic modules and engines! Authors of electronic books are not being payed for the use of their books, when they are used to train the language models.
Sorry for the rant on a subject where I see a lot of danger in the short and medium terms.