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Luis Enrique Cuéllar's avatar

Painters responded to the invention of photography by expanding their themes, techniques, and horizons. In this case, I fear, that might not be enough, because, it doesn't matter what you do, it can be imitated in a second.

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Joe Repka's avatar

Style can be reproduced, and that truth has been demonstrated to the extreme. But training on style cannot give current models the creativity to speak novelty through the style. The mad burst of people using the Ghibly style for a wild variety of purposes (albeit with the typical statistical distrubution of success) demonstrates the value of making style freely usuable.

I think the same applies to formal languages for computors, the agent/tool concept of system design, and all the other directions in which LLM-based systems are pushing into domains that were previously unique to human artists and builders. It may be true that hammers, sufficiently advanced can build houses, but no matter how advanced a hammer may become, it will never be able to design based on needs and purposes that advanced Large Hammer Model can recognize on its own.

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Luis Enrique Cuéllar's avatar

Of course. But as Ghibli Day proved, many people don't care about that, as long as they get the cute image they want.

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