Having taken a break from certain social media platforms in recent years, I might be missing the valuable content amidst the trolling, spam, and slop I imagine having to continued to fester.
However, I don’t feel compelled to give any fucks on the news about Sora 2, except those which I give for all of generative AI (some of which I use): concern for its energy consumption, as a source of societal and civic distraction, and potential to cause confusion. Is there truly any art or communication being created with it or similar tools that was impossible or significantly more valuable than before its existence?
I should add: I’m hardly a gen AI scaredy-cat: if I don’t have an expert to quiz endlessly, I will quiz a couple of different AI models, ask for sources, and run them down if I think I’m really going to use anything I believe I’ve learned. It’ll help script something, or just do the task I was going to script for me, but only when I feel I have the capacity to vet the output.