I theorize that in reality, AI generated video and images are much better1 than we are currently experiencing. That’s because there are non-technological limits on them driven by prudence and prudishness. This several limits artistic and entertainment use.
- Most people are restricted to ten seconds or less and a limited number of generations a day.
- Most services stop you from uploading pictures of other people. Being the cruder of the lot, Grok lets you. 3 The video generators are incredibly prudish. Most all of Western are from the David to the Grande Odalisque, and all those nursing Mary’s from the centuries before would be a content violation. See receipts below.
The technology is hamstrung. Imagine those limits removed, and you can imagine how good AI generated could be.
The same applies to chat-AI, of course. Would it have written Naked Lunch or A Clockwork Orange?
Art is a content violation
Hint-of-ass and side-boob?
Full frontal dong?
Yes, but, while ChatGPT it' cool with dong:
Also, after posting this in Bluesky, we find out that Bluesky also does not like hint-of-ass and side-boob, nor full-frontal dong:
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“Better” and “good” are not moral terms here. If AI is threatening your livelihood, ethics, and aesthetics, it is terrible that AI is could be “better” and “good” at faking human-efforts. And, like many Internet tools, assholes will asshole if we let them. ↩︎