Drake: There's been a lot of image generation bots that have become really popular in the last year. But there are also sort of very open source ones called stable diffusion, mid journey and they're free for anyone to use. They were mainly used by researchers, but now they're available on the open web. And so people are asking them to do all sorts of weird things. Drake says it seems hard to imagine a world where this isn't a part of the future.
Between chatbots and image generators, artificial intelligence has gotten scary good lately. The Verge’s James Vincent explains what’s behind the latest wave of AI-powered creations.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro with help from Paul Robert Mounsey and additional music by Brandon McFarland, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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