There’s no point in panicking about AI – it’s already on its way
I’m standing on an eroding cliff edge. As it inches towards me, various objects teeter cartoonishly before disappearing into oblivion. One by one sculptures, paintings, books, buildings and other artefacts of human creativity are swallowed up. The erosion is accelerating, vertiginous, starting to give way beneath my feet. Stormy. Crashing waves. HD. Photo-realistic.
“Is that Land’s End?” my partner asks absentmindedly as she looks at my screen. The prompt I entered into the generator was supposed to be an expression of AI vertigo, but I clearly need to brush up on my prompting skills because the image generated is not the apocalypse I had in mind. It looks more like an ad for a holiday destination starring Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer.
About Author
More Stories
Newborns treated with antibiotics respond less well to vaccines, study shows
As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’