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Ai generated journalism just made shitty journalism easier. The same shitty "top 10 whatever" sites were posting a similar level of pointless drivel 10 years ago but now they can produce more of them, I guess?

As someone with very limited artistic skill, I think your opinion of AI art is gatekeeping. Sorry not everyone can pick up a pencil and put down the exact image they want to see. For me, it's just another tool of creativity that also happens to lowers the barrier to entry. You'll find very different ability in producing specific results among users, too. I've gotten a bunch of people at work to join me in coming up with prompts and it's fascinating to see how different people come up with different ideas, and how some definitely understand how to work with image generators better than others.

Not sure what you mean by shitty answers. Ever asked a human the answer to something? They often get things wrong too. I've definitely googled something many times only to find misinformation and bad results. This isn't exclusive to LLMs.

I agree with your last statement though. It's a great tool that has only been broadly publically available in its current form for less than a few years now. Certainly there's a long way to go. I just think all the doomers in these comment chains are simultaneously not giving its current capabilities enough credit, but also vastly overestimating the impacts AI generation will have societally.