People search and remember things visually. Even if they're not
consciously aware. So on the Cybershow [0] we decided to jump-in and
use AI images as a quick way to visually tag episodes with something
meaningful and fun.
We did that despite some moral ambivalence/uneasiness around AI
"art".
For example, give me a "young and exciting Dana Meadows in front of a
board of systems theory"
I'm not awful at photoshopping things, and sometimes that's the only
way to get a specific image one has in mind. But it saves time and
lets us concentrate on writing and researching instead.
TBH if an artist/illustrator came along and said "Let me do the
episode icons even though you can't pay me yet" I'd feel inclined to
ask the AI to step aside.
We did that despite some moral ambivalence/uneasiness around AI "art".
For example, give me a "young and exciting Dana Meadows in front of a board of systems theory"
I'm not awful at photoshopping things, and sometimes that's the only way to get a specific image one has in mind. But it saves time and lets us concentrate on writing and researching instead.
TBH if an artist/illustrator came along and said "Let me do the episode icons even though you can't pay me yet" I'd feel inclined to ask the AI to step aside.
[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php