#185: The Painted Word

Imagine creating an entire painting by typing a few sentences. AI tools like Stable Diffusion will forever change how people create art. But will AI help or hurt artists? And what lessons can we learn from history on how this will play out? Here's the breakdown 🧵

This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is ... See more