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I get why this is bad, but gimp is free for years and you can make whatever you want with it. Is it just that these AI programs need no skill at all? Where do you draw the line here?
why do I need to know where to "draw the line" when something clearly sucks shit?
> billionaire funds the mass production of vampires
> "look, people have been eating meat for ages. where do you draw the line? you can't say this is bad unless you draw the line"
That's a major reason. That Grok's complete lack of guardrails is openly touted as a feature is another.
It's also an accountability issue. If you create something in GIMP or whatever everyone agrees that you did that and are responsible for any copyright issues or defamation or whatever else arises from that work. That becomes fuzzier when people start saying "Grok made this!" Especially because Grok does operate according to a model that can and does go beyond whatever it's been instructed to do, so you might be able to plausibly argue that if you craft the prompt right.
And I can guarantee that the cesspool formerly known as Twitter will try to play whichever side of that is more advantageous to them. Copyright infringement? That's on the user. Unique IP? Well, Grok had a profound and independent creative role and so we deserve a piece.
Yeah. It's literally text/ideas based.
"Godzilla buying a hot dog from a street vendor" renders you a 1024×1024 or equivalent, high quality image of exactly that, in 20-30 seconds flat.
Our monké brains aren't equipped to deal with that.
The next social shock is going to be "the imagination machine" that can save whatever you daydream or think about to hard disk, as movie files or stills from thereof that you can share on social media.