Yesterday, I watched a YouTube video, thinking I might be able to use it at Neatorama. The story was interesting, it was fairly recent, and less than ten minutes long. The narrator's voice wan't annoying, and it had images instead of just a talking head. But about three-quarters of the way through, he mispronounced a common word and then there were a couple of instances of mashing two words closely together. Oh, this is artificial intelligence. It's an improvement over previous AI narration, but still, I got a creepy sensation that I'd been fooled for several minutes. I lost all interest.
I'm just a blogger, but I spent years as a commercial voice artist, and I know how it's supposed to be done. How does an actual artist feel about the rise of AI? Matthew Inman brings us a long form comic about what AI-generated art has done to artists, the creative process, and how the rest of us regard art. Sure, it's an essay, but with Inman's delightful and sometimes gross illustrations, it goes by fast. Read the whole thing at The Oatmeal. -via Metafilter, where opinions vary wildly.
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maybe someday there'll be AI techs that spend hours or days checking over their work, counting fingers, toning down the orange & getting the posture right. And maybe someone will write an app that does it faster.
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