>>4383570Personally, I find it impossible to find that generated images bear any meaning, as to me one must have intention to assign meaning: the classic comparison involves myriad ants miraculously assembling in the sand an image of Winston Churchill. Yet it is not actually an image of him, because the ants have no concept of what 'Winston Churchill' is, and so cannot actually have created such an image. That is what 'generated' 'images' are. False equivalencies.
Irrespective, the reality is that instead of Union we are sleepwalking into an endless mechanical nightmare. Sure, such technology has potential for good; in my field there is use for it to perform tedious work no human wishes to do. All science has this potential; knowledge itself can be neither good nor evil. Mankind however is vain and impatient, and demands everything immediately. We have no sense of long-form time, no ability to think in terms of centuries, as was once said, rather than mere hours. We cannot see beyond ourselves. And that will be our downfall, I am convinced, short of outside intervention.
