Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he'd used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he'd hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, "Do cool shit." I made what I hoped was a polite noise.
What reaction was this man looking for?
He probably hoped someone, maybe me, would say it was cool or inspiring.
It seemed I was not the first person he'd told about this poster. "You know, it's funny," he said to me. "No one ever says anything about it." I have been thinking about this now for several days.
There's a sort of turducken of things that I find off-puttin … Read the full story at The Verge.