An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

Posted by participant3 4/3/2025

An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip(theaiunderwriter.substack.com)

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twodave 4/4/2025|

I could see a "Devil's Plan" style game show where, for one of the challenges the contestants have to come up with AI prompts that produce results, that then get fed into another AI prompt to determine whether they satisfy the conditions or not. E.g.

[ Challenge Image: An aquarium full of baby octopodes, containing a red high-heeled slipper in the center and a silver whistle hanging from a fern on the right-hand side ]

Then the contests have to come up (under pressure, of course) with a prompt that produces their own rendition of that image, and the game will decide if their image contains enough of the elements of the original to score a point.

2099miles 4/3/2025||

The issue I have with this article is that I can ask it “generate me a picture of tomb raider and pikachu on a couch” and it does it. This article makes it seems like it’s skirting the guardrails, dude OpenAI took them off, it’s out in the open.

low_tech_punk 4/4/2025||

And interesting comparison between Web search vs Gen AI.

Web search seems divergent: the same keyword leads to many different kinds of results.

Gen AI seems convergent: different keywords that share the same semantics lead to the same results.

Arguably, convergence is a feature, not a bug. But on the macroscopic level, it is a self reinforcing loop and may lead to content degeneracy. I guess we always need the extraordinary human artists to give AI the fresh ideas. The question is the non-extraordinary artists might no longer have an easy path to become extraordinary. Same trap is happening to junior developers right now.

drob518 4/4/2025||

If you haven’t read Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture, I highly recommend it for addressing some of these issues. It’s vintage now but all the arguments are still relevant. Lessig was one of the drivers of the Creative Commons licenses.

fidotron 4/3/2025||

One tangential thing with these generators is they're sort of brilliant at data compression, in aggregate at least. The whole user experience, including the delay, is oddly reminiscent of using Encarta on CD ROM in the mid 90s.

bawolff 4/3/2025||

Its kind of weird how everyone is complaining about copyright infringemet in memes now.

Memes are pretty inherently derrivative. They were always someone elses work. The picard face palm meme was obviously taken from star trek. All your base is obviously from that video game. Repurposing someone else's work with new meaning is basically what a meme is. Why do we suddenly care now?

CaptainFever 4/4/2025|

I believe it's because AI hatred is quite trendy now. It's true though, memes were always copyright infringement; it's just that no one bothered to sue for it.

gsf_emergency_2 4/4/2025||

Hmm author seems not to have noticed that Quatermain's love interest was played by Sharon Stone

https://youtu.be/LI4xsKHBx8c

zem 4/4/2025||

I am going to keep this post bookmarked to send to everyone who says "AI art isn't plagiarism, they're just using the corpus to learn from the same way human artists do"

froh 4/3/2025||

Creepy Craig is hilarious. can't be Daniel Craig because the physiology is too different. And whoever this is they're Daniel Craig's dark younger brother.

https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-arche...

and I'm all in on this conclusion:

> It’s stealing, but also, admittedly, really cool.

lionkor 4/4/2025|

I personally think Studio Ghibli, and by extension their artists and former artists, have created a beautiful art style. The fact that we call it Ghibli, when really, its the artists there (and former artists) is misleading.

The people leave, go to different studios, and make different art. This is not their only style, and Ghibli is not known to make many movies these days.

The only thing this is hurting, if anything, is Studio Ghibli, not the artists. Artists capable of drawing in this style can draw in any style.

tobr 4/4/2025|

I don’t know. Studios have distinct styles. Think Disney, Pixar, Aardman, Hanna-Barbera. Most of those obviously come from early influential artists (like with Ghibli), but they have become recognizable for the studio itself. It’s not just the style of the individual artists.

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