As you can imagine, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is on everyone's mind, particularly those whose jobs or livelihoods are threatened by the new technology. As a writer, I'm grateful I've carved my niche with both my fiction and nonfiction editors before AI became a threat. (That said, I have yet to meet an editor who even remotely wants or encourages AI submissions.)
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Recently, while lurking on a writer's forum, the discussion turned to using AI as an aid in generating cover art. One woman, seeking a prototype for a western-themed romance cover, wrote the following, which had the whole forum cracking up (and proved this woman can write!).
She started by giving the AI some prompts, and it went downhill from there:
"I tried AI to do scene suggestions. I prompted it to give me two people, a man and a woman, on a horse fleeing through the wilderness. I got two horses. I politely said they needed to be on the same horse. This time it was two horses with riders fleeing a fire. I, more firmly, said they needed to be riding the same horse. I got two horses with the riders using English saddles. I refrained from calling AI an idiot and went back through the list. I finally got two riders on the same horse. But they were missing legs. With gritted teeth, I said 'TWO PEOPLE, A MAN AND A WOMAN, ON A SINGLE HORSE, WESTERN SADDLE, EACH HUMAN HAVING TWO LEGS, FLEEING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, NOT RUNNING FROM A FIRE.' I got one horse, one rider, no bridle, and a fire.
I'm currently not speaking to AI."
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What a great laugh for the day. Thanks for sharing. Jenny
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DeleteThat sounds scarily like the results I get when asking my grandchildren to do something. I get pieces with lots of things missing!
ReplyDeleteThis is fun to chuckle at, but just before I came to your page, I was reading Christian Post about singer and songwriter Forrest Frank. He put out a social media post that the top Christian album and top 2 Christian singles on iTunes are AI. There are 4 AI singles in the top 40. His concern is there is no Holy Spirit in this music. Too true!
ReplyDeleteMonths ago my husband was playing what we thought was a Billy Graham sermon on YouTube. The longer I listened, it creeped me out. It was all about finding answers and strength in yourself and almost nothing about God, but it was Billy Graham's voice, plain as day. I looked up the channel and found hundreds more just like it, telling people what they want to hear. The masses will be misled...willingly.
Many people are suggesting that ai is somehow demonic.
DeleteAI pops up and tries to interact with me. I just click off it. One day, it tried out loud talking to me. I loudly told it to go away. It was not easily dissuaded, but eventually, it said okay and went away. Creepy!
ReplyDeleteMostly among authors who publish independently, AI illustration and cover design has become popular. Some authors in fact have a side gig designing covers. I think the more experience you get with using AI, the better results you get (and it also depends on which program you use). Few of these writers make much money on their books, so minimizing the expense of cover design is important.
ReplyDeleteHer experience has been mine also. I recently bought an Amazon Alexa+, plugged it in and connected it to my internet thru wifi. As is it turns out, it is an expensive alarm clock and time teller. It does not even know my location, the thing is dumber than my phone. And it give me weather in an area 1100 miles away. I am seeking assistance from a relative who has an older version, but it is frustrating to hear all the hype, then find out it is dumber than a rock.
ReplyDeleteOld-Fart here:
ReplyDeleteJust another step in the dumbing down of humans. “They” are doing a great job of doing so.
If one (humans) finally gives up the "Thinking Process" totally, then why would "AI" need Humans?
Anyone here actually remember needing to do AND turn in homework in school that the STUDENT actually does, NOT (AI)?
How about getting a "Passing Grade" in all studies in school?
How about actually showing up for work and WORKING if you have a job outside the home.
Want to get ahead in life? How about actually using your own brain to accomplish what you need, not AI making those decisions for you.
BTW, how the HECK do ya get AI off a computer, it’s invading everything. Ya can’t even turn it off if’n you want to.
BUT, I guess it’s (AI) great for those hundreds of thousands that have already lost their jobs and income to the invasion of (AI), ya ain’t seen nothing yet.
HAHAHA Maybe we can get AI to replace Congress???? Just a thought.
Have you noticed all the mistakes that AI makes, such as the Lady with the 14 different Horse renditions, ALL incorrect!!!! And all the lawsuits going on whereas AI is “wrong”.
Ahhhhhh yeah, tis going to be fun for sure.
Now I’m sure I’m going to get notified from the AI Police… LOLOL
All in fun folks, all in fun.
AI does a much better job with language than with images.
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DeleteYour absolutely correct, AND AI can take a recording of anyone's voice and manipulate it to say anything "they" want it to...
AKA AI Song impersonations and voice recordings used in Court....
Wonderful.
This morning I've had AI design printable full size templates for the building I want to turn into a gingerbread house, for our local contest.
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DeleteSo if you win the "Contest" are you going to take full credit for the win?
Ya damn right I am! Anyway I probably won't as I am planning to build the local 7 Eleven, which cracks me up. It's the highest grossing 7 Eleven in the entire world.
DeleteA phone system update changed some settings and I couldn't switch them back, so I asked the Bing Copilot (Chat GPT) how to do it. The answers it gave were wrong. When I told it that, it acknowledged giving me incorrect information. It offered other suggestions which were also wrong. I replied, "You just don't know the answer, do you?" It then praised me for my sharp insight in catching its mistakes. I returned the clown emoji with no words. Its response: "I get the sense that you're calling me out for not solving your problem. Fair enough, let's work on this together." It included some sources for its answers, which were random blog posts. The weird over-building of AI capacity in this country is the tulip mania of the 21st century. It won't end well.
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