True or false: image creation is an area in which you have practice and expertise.

Kind of. Learned Photoshop in high school, messed with Illustrator recently. I script command line image manipulation (ImageMagick) and video (ffmpeg). I'm only artsy enough to upset my Christian mother sometimes. I think you're asking about that, specifically, and no, I'm not the best painter, sculptor, drawer, logo-designer, or whatever. Sora's doing wayyyyyy better than me.

See, you're going "everyone is an idiot but me."

Kinda, but I'm an idiot too. Just hopefully not about this. You've posted stuff yourself that shows how quick so many people are to be fooled by some AI images. People are busy. They're in a hurry.

Microsoft funds OpenAI because they KNOW it's poisoning Google.

Oh this is absolutely true.

We've been watching Hotel Hell with dinner. One of the games we play is "what happened after Gordon left."

My wife and I have literally done this for years. And Kitchen Nightmares, too.

The website scam is pretty solid, there's gonna be a lot of that. It's already illegal, I'm sure, and companies should get in big trouble if their LLM is an accessory to fraud. The litigation surrounding stuff that's in a more morally gray area will be thrilling, I'm sure. One way or another.

LLMs have no understanding.

I understand. Ha no, but it's kinda the ol' "magic is science we don't understand yet" thing. If it's passing the Turing test, it will feel intelligent. Indistinguishable, most of the time. It's easier and more productive to talk to online than at least half of America. And you can just photoshop out the extra digits and save yourself potentially hours upon hours of time without having to synthesize too much, my dude.

Again, yeah, legal stuff's gotta get sorted, but this tech is mos def my bet for most disruptive in this generation. Like a 15-year span. It'll be: cell phones -> internet -> social media -> LLMs. Wish I could tell you what I thought was next. Would if I could.