Here's your question for the night courtesy of Dax (Thanks!): Are you worried about the rise of AI art and writing tools, or are you indifferent about it compared to proper writing?
I've been messing around quite a bit with AI Art and Writing sites and, the truth is I have a lot of thoughts on this subject.
Short answer is, at the moment, I don't have any worries about AI art or Writing tools, at this point, they're simply toys, no more no less.
I've pretty treated them as places to experiment with, seeing how it would react to various things I'd throw at it, including some pretty grody stuff (nothing that would involve the phrase "Legal Grey Area" but the point remains, that it's not stuff you'd see on CSS.
I grew kinda bored with AI Art because I'm not sure what it can do at the moment.
It can't draw Rogue, it draws Storm as a white woman and I've tried to get it to draw me pictures of Nightwing and Wonder Woman (Not even fucking, just pictures of them hanging out and shit) and it's done this weird thing where it puts what appears to be a fucked up version of Wonder Woman's symbol on their foreheads.
AI writing is incredibly tough to deal with, because you have to really hammer home points with it.
For instance, you can't hint that something is wrong with Character X (to plant the seeds for a later reveal) you have to repeatedly have scenes where the story reiterates that Character X is secretly evil.
This is to say, of course, nothing of the ethical issue of people having their works used without permission.
I've had it randomly post the tagline for a tumblr blog, multiple times it's posted the title for a totally different story, an issue of a comic book and, at one point, what I'm 99 percent sure was a literotica comment.
At the end of the day there might be a time in about 10 or so years where you can load up a program tell it "I want a story about Sabertooth seducing Rogue set in the X-Men the Animated Series universe, it should be 5 chapters and here's a rough outline and the main character beats you need to hit on" and it'll get you what you want.
Then you load up an art program and tell it to make you comic based on that story and you'll, once again, get what you want.
But it's gonna take a lot of effort to get there, it's gonna take people spending years training those programs, getting them familiar with concepts.
Make no mistake, corporations are gonna abuse the shit out of AI, it's in their nature, but, end of the day, it's a simple program on a computer.
And I just can't see it being all that dangerous in it's current form.
They'll try to replace humans with AI as soon as they can, but it just isn't gonna work.
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