As I wrote the previous post about how young men these days are surrounded by opportunities for easy, small, free dopamine hits, it occurred to me that Gemini's AI image creator is just that. It's kind of like a slot machine. You type in a prompt, click Enter and then wait 40 seconds or so. Instead of wheels spinning and lights flashing like they do in Vegas, it tells you your image is being generated. At the end, you may or may not be a winner.
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| Generate a photorealistic image of an old southern man and his cat drinking coffee and watching the sunrise from the porch of their bayou home |
Meh. That's OK, but the cat should be a gray tabby and I wanted old trees with Spanish Moss around the place. If I fiddle with the prompt, I can get something better. Maybe.
Like a slot machine, you keep playing, hoping you get the jackpot. Instead of feeding the thing coins, you feed it your time.
Like sorcery, you have no idea what you're doing. You're trying various incantations, hoping you get the desired result. That's because Gemini itself doesn't know what it's doing.
Nescio quid facio! (A small vole appears at my feet.)
Hmm, that didn't work.
Ego sum trying quae temere! (Three toads fall from the ceiling making a squashy sound when they hit the floor.)
I didn't really want the toads. Let's try again.
Hoc superfluum! (My wand disappears and is replaced by a rake.)
Maybe this is a hint I should do it for myself instead of relying on AI.
That's the way AI will fit into our world of instant gratification. You don't need to learn how to draw, how to write, how to summarize a book or even an essay, you just feed it into the bot and get a result. If you don't know how to do the task in the first place, you'll have no idea if the result is any good or not.
It's just one more cheap dopamine hit.
1 comment:
Given the wording of the prompt, shouldn't the cat also be drinking coffee?
You have incidentally just said pretty much what my daughters both say: having the AI do art for them pretty much defeats the purpose of art in the first place, and so neither of them use it. They don't even like using computer assistance in general, they are straight pencil-and-paper types, because they don't find anything else satisfying.
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