Especially in the case of DALLE-2 and Stable Diffusion, we are not convinced of any fundamental social benefits that access to general-purpose image generators provide aside from, admittedly, being entertaining.
It's fairly clear that widespread access to these models has dramatically accelerated a broader transformation of creative industries. Early users are fascinated with the novelty of playing with the AI model as a "new toy", but the model and related models are rapidly becoming integrated into other tools and creative workflows. Art... (read more)
It's fairly clear that widespread access to these models has dramatically accelerated a broader transformation of creative industries. Early users are fascinated with the novelty of playing with the AI model as a "new toy", but the model and related models are rapidly becoming integrated into other tools and creative workflows. Art... (read more)