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Tell you what, given the project I've been working on for months, AI very definitely does not offload my cognition. It only augments it, and there wasn't a lot of that to work with to start.

I think this is what bugs me about people automatically calling everything out of AI slop or vibed. I promise you, there is actually a talent gradient involved. You just need to learn to recognize it.

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Relatedly, I am way less interested in AI media (imagery, videos) which try to hide that they're AI, and way more interested in the ones that embrace the bizarre and jarring quirks of the medium and turn them into something challenging or interesting.

I was explaining to someone this is more or less the approach of being handed a theremin. Sure you could try to play traditional music, but come on. You're gonna want to go wild with this thing.

The best of that sort of weird stuff was the early diffusion models with Dall-E, and (still) Midjourney, which has wild stuff like 'show me this prompt in 50 random style prompts', and then a chaos knob to sort of stretch out the distance between points in latent space of a prompt response.

Engineer husband and I were discussing this tonight. There should be a basic "AI Primer" to explain the good and bad. Media is running wild with the scare headlines. I despise my AI experiences so far, but husband has rational points. Would be nice to have an unemotional guide to this future.

It's pretty tricky to navigate! And the cement is not dry *at all*. Creating guidance within Bluesky's engineering staff has been a challenge, and those people are built for it