it is agonizing to see ppl lump in every type of AI with genAI as if agri-AI that sorts fruit is somehow the same as making an AI slop engine

And the worst part is these LLMs are COUNTING on the confusion so they can put everything as a catch-22, that's why there's the sudden rise of "AI is will be everywhere", and if they go down, so does every infrastructure that relies on machine learning and we are all using abacuses

Put differently, if you see value in the process of iteration and creation, but *don't* see the value of taste and sensibility in that, then it becomes easy - logical even - to break any creative act into an engineering one.

Which is, more or less, what generative AI does.

This is where it calls back to the role of empathy.

Because empathy is necessary to, among other things, recognize the validity of other people's taste.

In the absence of that, there is only YOUR taste, which you can easily reframe as criteria for truth.

Really fantastic things happen at the intersection of art and engineering, and the two disciplines can feed on each other really fruitfully, if that is the desire.

But, if you are so inclined, it's also easy to see either one as a pale shadow of the other, based on which you favor.

An obnoxious technology for obnoxious people.

"Cameron, who is a director of UK-based company Stability AI."

Huh, didn't know that.