I am usually eager to explore and adjust to new technologies. But so far, I am not so jazzed over AI.

When all this started blowing up and becoming accessible to  someone like me, I was in the middle of some projects for a disposable glove client. “Wonderful!” I thought. I need some images. Oops. Apparently, at least at that point, one of AI’s biggest bugaboos was the imaging of hands. I now had multiple thalidomide babies coming at me in anything but a clean textured poly film! Well okay, what happens if I ask it for horrifying images of leaking, infective gloved hands? Oh, the manga gore was impressive but still too many prehensile fingers. A different app popped up promising, with just a few selfies,  a professional quality portrait suitable for resumes and personal posts. It did an impressive job and I now have nice age-range selection of what could be my unborn son. Apparently AI has gender issues based on short hair cuts. But I am a handsome fellow if I do say myself. ? At this point I will venture out with AI for first round drafts of copy / content which will be heavily edited by me to take the oily mechanical smell from them. I don’t like repetitive click-bait copy any more than the next guy. There was a nice article likening the AI process to mad cow disease. As it gleans and feeds off of al the content it can find on the web, AI begins to consume itself in a cycle of decay.