If you had a kid, let's say 6 years old, and they had a "super hero" they wrote stories about.
What would it mean, if you took away their creative process and replaced it with this.
Does that child have a lesser "life-experience?" Or not?
What about you?
What it really is is a kind of choose your own adventure. You can be 6 years old and write stories and then an hour later play a choose-your-own-adventure game and no one would find that weird
We are going to have kids who, instead of imagining their own fantasy lands, are given them by AI. Of course the AI will be far superior to a 6 year old- how will they be able to resist the AI drip, when even adults can't.
A generation growing up without imagining. So depressing.
I guess we have a few years before it starts. Or maybe it already has.
Wow.
I hope this doesn't happen. I hope the kids are smarter than us.
Creative people love to play with new tools. Photography was supposed to destroy all art, but it became its own art form. Did synthesizers destroy music? Musicians even figured out how to turn a record player, a device made for nothing but replaying existing music, into a musical instrument. Look up "turntablism." Give an artist anything and they'll start fiddling with it and seeing what it can do, and they'll do that with AI just like they did with electronics and record players and anything else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgpZag6xyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnRVmiqm84k
The people flooding e-book markets with slop are doing a new variation on the dropship get rich quick scheme, not trying to create books. They don't care what's in there, just that they can game reviews.
I expect artists playing with AI to get into hacking models and model runtimes themselves. It's one reason I think open weight models are so important. They're hackable, remixable, re-trainable.