The Spark

Guest Post by NicklethroweR

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Get ready for several lifetimes worth of change before the end of the year because we have created a monster.  I do not say this as clickbait.  I do not say this to be bombastic.  I say it because I’m convinced that something evil has been created in a lab and has now been turned loose upon the world.  If you grant me a few minutes of your time, I will prove it to you.

As a content creator, I follow trends in technology as I’m constantly looking for shortcuts that will simplify my workflow.  After all, it is easier now to have a text-to-image creator make photographs than search Shutterstock or Getty Images for a suitable image.  The same is true if I need some ambient music to fill space in a video as AI generated piano music now takes care of 75% of what I need.  Currently, I’m using around half a dozen different AI type applications to help me produce media.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard talk of ChatGPT.  For those of you that do not know about it or are unsure as to what it is, I’ve asked ChatGPT to define itself.

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