Dall-E 2

I am assuming that any adult reading this understands that professional porn is quite different from the sex most of us experience in our private lives in a number of major ways, both emotionally and physically.[1]

But anyway, yes. By "real" I mean "real human beings, having real sex."

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[1] There is a lot of homemade, amateur porn on the big well-known porn sites and it seems quite popular, and much of that is closer to what typical folks do at home. But that's beside the point.

Algorithm space is large and guess-checking through it takes a lot of effort even when it’s automated like now. It requires huge amounts of compute. And meaningful progress requires the combined effort of the entire worlds intellectual and compute resources. It sounds implausible at first but this machine learning ecosystem is in fact subject to sanctions. There are extreme but plausible ways of reducing the stream of progress to a trickle. It just requires people to actually wake up to what’s happening.

It's important to note that we still need professionals to guarantee the quality of the output from AIs, including this one. As noted in their issue tracker, DALL-E has very specific limitations, but these can be easily solved by employing dedicated professionals, who are trained to tame the AI and properly finish the raw output.

So, if I were running OpenAI, I'll clearly be experimenting with how their AIs and human interact, and build a training program around it for producing practical outputs. (Actually, I work in consumer robotics, and human adoption has been the biggest hurdle here. Thus, my claim here.)

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In case of fine art, thou, I don't think they'll not get hit by this AI advancement. The biggest problem is that you simply can't get the exact image you want wit this AI. Even humans cannot transfer visual information in verbal form without a significant loss of details, thus a loss of quality. It's the same with AI, but, worse, because AI rely on the bias in a specific set of training data, and it never truly understands the human context in it (in the current level of technology).

40+ years ago, it was hard to access the equipment necessary to learn music production, so only a small slice of the population was able to learn these skills. And availability made the process take years.

Today, you can download free software that enables music production, and if you have a good ear, can create something "good" in weeks. This has led to an explosion of musical experimentation by the youth: a teenager can now create a great electronic dance song with devices they already own if they have the right creativity, taste and dedication.

Similarly, everyone has an imagination - many people have visual imaginations. The gating factor of art production is largely the mechanical memory of how to transform mental concepts into the right shapes and hues to express that visual concept to others.

With these sorts of tools we are going to have an explosion of art hobbyists. I've played with some similar, more primitive AI art generation tools and it is a lot of fun. People will be creating works of art from their couch while watching TV that rival the quality of what professionals are producing today.