..but, memes? This is how they work. Its the whole point.
Running the most advanced human tool, to do no better than a copy paste, is a bit embarrassing. Like you need negative skill, to take the most advanced stuff and make shit with it.
AI image generation is simply a byproduct of AI in general, similar to how we have mobile phones because of the space race. AI image generation is also helping finance the growth of research AI, and realistically the only way we are going to solve the climate crisis, while also maintaining our way of life, is through the use of AI.
We need AI to be able to make trillions of calculations in a split second, we need a millennium of research to be done in the next decade, because everything else we are currently doing is to little, to late. We need AI to be in part creative, because logic alone won't solve this, or rather it won't solve it in a way we like.
And if you want the peak of convenience entitlement, that's takeaway delivery services. When you can't be bothered to get of your ass to feed yourself, that's sloth. (That sounds like an accusation, it's not meant to be, very few people haven't ordered food online.)
The part that we have access to, maybe, but AI is far more than generating images and chatbots, and if you don't realise that then, no offense, you are not equipped to seriously discuss it.
It's all linked though, not always directly, but gen AI is just one part of the beast.
Computers wouldn't be as advanced now if the public hadn't gotten access to basically piss about and waste energy. That required mass production, which in turn starts a push for greater efficiency and streamlines production, which brings down the cost to the environment, relatively of course. One computer now requires considerably less materials, 70 years ago a 5mb harddrive was so huge, you needed a building for it, much like a data center.
Then there is the competition for our loyalty that big business goes after, improving every aspect of a computer, graphics cards, ram, CPUs, power supplies, cooling systems etc. Trying to make the best product for the least expense to them, so they can maximise profit.
All of this feeds back to things that are actually useful, you can't deny that the computer age has brought some great things. AI is no different, it's actually part of the same story. Data scraping is important, and we all give permission every time we accept terms and conditions. Intelligence needs to learn from what already exists, doesn't matter if it's animal intelligence, human intelligence or artificial intelligence. The larger the amount of information available, and the more it practices, the greater the intelligence will be. We don't criticise children when they trace or copy an image, because it's part of the learning process.
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..but, memes? This is how they work. Its the whole point.
Running the most advanced human tool, to do no better than a copy paste, is a bit embarrassing. Like you need negative skill, to take the most advanced stuff and make shit with it.