i'm sort of pleased to see that with DeepSeek and the o-series, the hype/energy is shifting back towards coding and mathematical tasks, and away from generating images and videos. Programmers seem to be mostly happy with LLMs, unlike artists and musicians who almost all hate them. It seems possible that the incentives will continue to be aligned well, because it's staff at AI labs automating the skills that make them valuable (rather than putting others out of a job).
It's also not so unpleasant. I don't want to see AI images any more. I certainly don't want to listen to AI music. People are right to call it "slop". I understand how the field of machine learning got to image generation as a task, and that the products can be sometimes useful and fun as a novelty. But there is just a giant externality caused by the existence of these products.
It's also not so unpleasant. I don't want to see AI images any more. I certainly don't want to listen to AI music. People are right to call it "slop". I understand how the field of machine learning got to image generation as a task, and that the products can be sometimes useful and fun as a novelty. But there is just a giant externality caused by the existence of these products.