Today in Generative Media

Why people prefer human art to AI; AI images threaten democracy; Death by LLM

• New psychology research reveals why people prefer human-created artwork to AI-created artwork (PsyPost)

• AI-enhanced images a ‘threat to democratic processes’, experts warn (The Guardian)

• Death by LLM: Stack Overflow's decline, and its plan to survive, shows the future of free online data in an AI world (Business Insider)

• 4 Charts That Show Why AI Progress Is Unlikely to Slow Down (Time)

• The Economic Case for Generative AI and Foundation Models (a16z)

• I’ve come to recognize generative AI art as the next paradigm change, away from drawing the image, towards specifying a scene through a combination of prompts, infills, and hand edits - whatever gets to the best result fastest. (Tim Sweeney, X)

• AlpacaML has launched a public beta of their Photoshop plugin. (alpaca.ml) Early users show the sketch input mode works well! (X)

• An adversarial attack on the text pipeline of MidJourney that bypasses their safety controls. (X)