Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Prompting an AI to draw you a picture consists of just a few decisions, orders of ...
Prompting an AI to draw you a picture consists of just a few decisions, orders of magnitude fewer communicative acts than are embodied in a human-drawn illustration, even if you refine the image through many subsequent prompts. What you get is something "soulless" - a thing that seems to involve many decisions, but almost all of them were made by a machine that had *no* communicative intent.
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