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As with all tools, the intention of AI use is everything

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There is a fine line between using AI as part of your process and using it as your process.

I’m not really here to say where that line is. It’s different for each industry and each art form, and it’s up to each individual — and perhaps their audience — to decide how much they relinquish their creative process to a machine (remember, creativity is the fun part, and I’d suggest doing as much of that on your own as possible).

I have softened a little on my stance with AI over the past year. I do use it, mainly as a search engine, and also as a poorly paid assistant, giving it the prompt equivalent of “hey, this task is mind-numbingly boring, can you do it for me?” But I think my stance has eased also because recent releases have continued to underwhelm, and we’re seeing signs that its current form is not far off its ceiling. You might even say a bubble? Scaling is only going to take the technology so far, and there is a shrinking pool of data left for it to train on. Yes, there are still fears about its future impact, but I’m also starting to feel optimism again, as it becomes clear that AI is too unreliable to fully replace us.

So, for the foreseeable future, Generative AI models will remain what they are as of now…