This clever artificial intelligence seems to have got the idea very quickly. Add my love of uniform girl rears and of Indian-type girls and you get this.
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@Ynotisay But a painting isn't real either. The painter is more in control of his or her tools than the person who prompts an AI to make a picture, and (s)he has to work a lot harder, but neither will represent a real thing with complete accuracy, and if the thing is invented (like my policewoman), of course it isn't real, just as the characters in a novel aren't real. I'd hate AI to take over from traditional art, but is it worse than photoshopping?
@MagneticSid That's right. A painting isn't real. Photoshopping isn't real. I think most looking at them understand that. It's people attaching themselves to AI as if it WERE real that's the issue as I see it. And not just images.
@Ynotisay Yes, I agree. This thing Facebook is trumpeting - I forget the name - but it's a virtual world in which you could travel, meet people, carry out transactions - OK, a good second best to going to all those places I'll never visit, but the reality could be pollution, growing crime, dead coral reefs, extinct tigers, corrupt police, and yet in their virtual world none of this would happen, so maybe people wouldn't care so much about the real world.
@MagneticSid Which is why I think it's doomed to fail. At the end of the day we're animals and we're intrinsically connected to our natural environment. And while those things you mentioned are true in places it would be just as easy to state the awesome, beautiful, positive things going on in the world.
@Ynotisay Yes. The danger is that the virtual world is an unreal world. I can see Facebook or its rivals producing beautiful experiences - or war without real deaths, say - but there is no commercial reason for it to show poverty or desertification. Some physical experiences are probably impossible to reproduce in the virtual world, but if it's doomed to fail, why does it already take up so much of people's lives?
@MagneticSid Well said. And to why? I don't know. Maybe it's a just a new shiny thing or maybe it's the result of a generation that has grown up with their eyes constantly on screens.
