No. But I do appreciate how it helps people, specifically those who may not have the time or patience for the arduous years of practice art skills usually take to hone, to create and visualize things that would otherwise be stuck in their head.

But it doesn't tho. There's like 0% chance the AI gets it right, it gets "close enough". I mean I'm not gonna flip my shit over using AI to generate Shrek does 9/11 or whatever but that's stlll just AI slop. Get on MS Paint and crudely draw it in there for all I care, at least it means somebody gave enough of a shit about the concept to put literally any amount of effort into it.

I also think that AI is great for general comedy purposes, whether that's audio, video, or meme images. I've seen great uses in this way whether it's the various AI U.S. president videos where they make them say silly shit, or the Jack Black Elden Ring movie trailer that was posted here recently.

I hate to go to bat for Jack Black but generating photorealistic images of somebody half naked is unethical even if it is him and it's not exactly sexual. I know expectations of privacy differ between hollywood stars but how would you feel about this?

Basically, if AI is used for stuff like that, I don't think it deserves the same hostility as when it's used in it's worst possible ways (Tech bros putting far too much faith in it and replacing people, usually leading to their regret).

There is genuinely good uses for AI. Speech transcription via an LLM is a good idea for contexts where it's not life or death, so, most of them. AI Search Functions for big huge databases can be very good because they "understand" context and it can expedite a lot of research. But that's boring logistics instead of hilarious AI slop