At first using ChatGPT and MidJourney feels like having a superpower. Words and images magically appear, seemingly out of nowhere.<\/p>\n
But eventually you realize that it’s precisely the opposite. Those words and images are actually appearing out of everywhere.<\/p>\n
We are just being fed our own collective words and images, all of the things we’ve put out there into the public sphere. Our keywords are simply prompting a giant search through all of that data.<\/p>\n
And that’s when you realize that it’s not that different from what happens when you do a Google search. You are simply sifting through vasts amounts of information, and finding the part that interests you.<\/p>\n
The only difference is that the information is coming in the form of imitation. Instead of simply pointing you to a set of webpages, the computer is answering your query by building for you a simulcrum of those pages.<\/p>\n
And that’s when you realize that it’s really no more magical than Google search. Marvelous, powerful, yes, but not magical. You are not actually getting anything original. Like a Google search, you are just getting a remix of what we humans have already created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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