
63 See Through AI Hype with Arvind Narayanan
Reimagining the Internet
Is the Future of AI Changing the Art of the World?
This is a genuine set of interesting technical advances. I think these text-to-image models are producing interesting outputs and they're probably also going to have some economically useful applications. There is none that is super clear yet. They will enrich the art world, perhaps, just like chess engines have enriched the chess world as opposed to putting art artists out of work. And moving beyond those, there are certainly applications in entertainment that are plausible. All these kind of metaverse wet dreams, the idea that someone could say Ethan writing a horse and a forest on the moon. And the model will, in real time, generate a video of that. So all of those things are possible if it has