But even as their output tends to be disappointing, AI tools have become the internet’s favorite game — not because they often produce objectively great things but because people seem to love the process of producing and sharing them. Few things are more satisfying than tricking (or watching someone trick) a model into doing something naughty or incompetent: just look at the flurry of interest when xAI released an image generator that could make Disney characters behave badly or when ChatGPT persistently miscounted the letter “r” in “strawberry.” One of the first things people do with AI tools is mash together styles and ideas: Kermit the Frog as the Girl With a Pearl Earring, a Bible passage about removing a sandwich from a VCR, any movie scene directed by Michael Bay.
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