What Does Artificial Intelligence Do Well? – PRINT Magazine

Many of us have, by now, seen a new crop of images online that look not-quite-right, or not quite believable (in the sense of slightly wrong images of famous people doing strange things); and many of us know, or have heard about, the explosion in AI imaging through programs like DALL-E, Midjourney, and an ever-increasing number of others. Some of us have friends or online friends who are producing images that have us intrigued. I have such a friend in Jonathan Hoefler, and as a discussion of the ethics/dangers of AI ensued on one of his Facebook posts (and for the purposes of this article, unless noted otherwise, when I refer to "AI" I am referring specifically to the image-generating form of AI, not the text-generating or any other kind or use), I decided I'd better check it out for myself before arguing either for or against. I was a bit afraid of getting into it because I was worried it might "imagine" better than I do, leaving me feel useless as an artist. I'd also heard it's addictive, and I was worried about that too.