If you support unions (DUers should) but still think it's OK to post AI slop, see the hundreds of Bluesky replies

[cachukis]

49. Would that the subject matter be in a glass jar, controlled.

But it is not.
I am frightened for my children and grandchildren.
Yet AI is the natural offshoot of curious minds trying to make computing the best technology.
As a Luddite, I would like the tool to be mindful of us all, but I also understand experimentation and mistakes brought us to our modern world.
Art is the finest representation of a spiritual explanation. And yet, even Picasso understood copying. Folklore and a Bob Dylan modernization are linked in his library.
We are here. We have made the leap from analog to digital and HAL is sneaking into our platforms.
Renaissance masters used camera obscura to raise their techniques beyond the classics.
I still prefer a knife to all the culinary gadgetry available, but a mandolin eases my scalloped potatoes.
We already are entertained by the special effects in so many areas. Color television. Technicolor.
I go to live performances as much as possible.
Will we, the older generations, be impressed with the computer technologists who use AI to expedite their special effects? Will we be thrilled with an AI solution to rebuild cartilage in an aching knee?
Our grandchildren won't know anything different.
I spent years buying and selling antiques. The real thing was costly. The reproduction was inexpensive.
We let reproductions into our world. They are here to stay.