Thoughts about AI Text-to-Image Creation and the Future

Over the last couple of years, the impacts of AI for creative purposes were coming closer but still felt far away for actual use. Tech demos and papers gave us a glimpse into the black box of AI, but it always felt like tests or gimmicks. The earlier image-to-text recognition tests, with their sometimes racial biases and errors, always had a strange vibe. Google's dreaming AI was indeed impressive on its own but it was hard to see a use for this other than filters. Then there was the sheer endless amount of GAN morphs, which would have been much more impressive if I had understood anything of the tech behind them.