Artificial intelligence is being used to design magazine covers and provide pictures for internet newsletters. What could possibly go wrong?
Warzel’s newsletter consisted of an interview with someone who had worked for the Jones media empire in its heyday and, as such, was interesting. But what really caught my eye was the striking illustration that headed the piece. It showed a cartoonish image of a dishevelled Jones in some kind of cavern surrounded by papers, banknotes, prescriptions and other kinds of documents. Rather good, I thought, and then inspected the caption to see who the artist was. The answer: “AI art by Midjourney”.
You could, say, ask for a portrait of Shrek in the style of the Mona Lisa or Jane Austen as an astronautis not the only established publication in which the Midjourney tool’s work has appeared. The normally staid. This is significant because it illustrates how rapidly digital technologies can make the transition from leading edge to commodification. And as they do so, new fears and hopes rapidly emerge., which can generate vaguely plausible English text.
In the event, though, some of the steam has gone out of the GPT-3 controversy . However much sceptics and critics might ridicule human hacks, the crooked timber of humanity will continue to outwit mere machines for the foreseeable future. Journalism schools can relax.
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