AI-generated art (if you wanna call it that) is like Google Glass and the Metaverse. It’s not that most people don’t want it in their lives, they actually actively despise it. It’s a product that generates feelings of loathing rather than delight; dismay rather than joy.
I really thought, in the big build up to the announcement, it was gonna be a jetpack. I could never forgive the Segway for so bitterly disappointing me.
I always remember this one guy whose view of the Segway was sortof akin to the way many of us today view the Kidcrusher 3000 pickup trucks. They invited him to a demo to prove him wrong, so he got on one and started 'driving' full-tilt into the folding chairs, sending them tumbling across the room