Not going to bother recapitulating the usual counterpoints,
except to mention a particularly egregious recurring oversight in analyses like this:
the (erroneous) presumption that what AI tools are going to do is what their designers (mostly) had in mind, which is, making existing processes/workflows/products but in some variety of "better" (or at least quicker, or, automatible, or, fungible) ways.
What these systems do more which is much more interesting, important, and influential on any real time scale,
is allow for new processes workflows and products.
I'm no more concerned that AI image generators are going to "swamp" the world with their output than I am that the mimeograph is going to swamp bookshelves with fanfic.
What they do in video, and AR, in responsive realtime, though? Now that might be interesting.
except to mention a particularly egregious recurring oversight in analyses like this:
the (erroneous) presumption that what AI tools are going to do is what their designers (mostly) had in mind, which is, making existing processes/workflows/products but in some variety of "better" (or at least quicker, or, automatible, or, fungible) ways.
What these systems do more which is much more interesting, important, and influential on any real time scale,
is allow for new processes workflows and products.
I'm no more concerned that AI image generators are going to "swamp" the world with their output than I am that the mimeograph is going to swamp bookshelves with fanfic.
What they do in video, and AR, in responsive realtime, though? Now that might be interesting.
PSA it already is.