Seeing other people’s AI art is like hearing other people’s dreams
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#66RKQ)
A DALL-E depiction of a dream that is fun to experience but boring to tell other people about." | Image: DALL-E
If you've been on Twitter (or Discord or plenty of other places) this month and your feed is anything like mine, it's currently full of weird machine-generated text and art. The launch of ChatGPT, Lensa, and other tools has made a once difficult-to-access tool ubiquitous, and the result is an explosion of people posting their interactions with artificial intelligence.
I love these tools, and I've been playing with them for a while now - at least since the release of AI Dungeon 2 in 2019. But over the years, I've realized there's a huge gap between the way I experience work I generate and work created by someone else. The closest way I can describe it is this: seeing somebody else's AI art is like hearing the plot of someone else's dream....