All vague colloquialisms aside, AI… powered?—definitely not generated, though—pages are popping up online and are joining the ranks of entertainment content.
One such page is @hardaipics, an Instagram page that’s all about those “hard and sometimes cursed” AI pics. The page was created just last month, but already has a whopping 119,000 followers after only 200 posts.
The page also has a subreddit that serves pretty much the same purpose, but also acts as a depository of images that are later picked out and featured on the Instagram page.
And, so, speaking of the images, it’s genuinely amazing to see just how much AI has moved on in terms of visualization, but it’s even more so amazing to think that there is a dedicated community of netizens who regularly sit down and come up with the most ludicrous prompts to feed into the machine.
Now, you wouldn’t be wrong to think that if you’ve seen AI work its magic, you can practically say you’ve seen it all. I mean, do you think anything can compete with a rapcoon, Walter ‘Skeleton’ White, Roman army pizza, crochetma, and Jesus getting swol?
All jokes aside, yes, it can get better, crazier, and more creative. As long as the AI has enough intellectual property to mess around with, it’s bound to eventually generate an image of a shrimp on fire dunking a basketball through a hoop that’s in the middle of a storm in the ocean full of very angry sharks… oh… wait…
Two wizards dressed in red (one of whom is either Tom DeLonge from Blink 182 or Will Ferrell) having a lightning fight in a fast food joint, are you kidding me?! … oh, sorry. It just baffles my mind how that which has never been done before is going extinct right in front of us.
Well, AI is pretty creative, but it has its limitations. Whereas humans, they do have limitations too, but not to the same degree as AI would. At least not in terms of creative power.
AI works under a particular set of rules, bound by algorithms and restrictions set in the software itself. Human creativity, on the other hand, is not. WE are capable of exploring all possibilities—even the ones beyond any scraped database or the ones we’ve even considered. Sure, we need some input to jump off of in order to create new things, but there's much more freedom there in our head than in that of an AI.
Another aspect is that human creativity is not just about generating ideas. It’s about finding new ways to express who we are—identity, culture, society, all that jazz. It’s what pushes the arts forward.
And, in pretty much the same fashion, just like humans need input, AI needs it too. And, at least for now, AI is reliant on human input to do what it does. So, humans are at an advantage here.
