OpenAI’s DALL-E Makes Me Sick: Am I the Only One?

I’ve recently been toying with the idea of making YouTube videos as a bit of a project, so I was looking into AI tools that could help with the process. I’m left feeling oddly creeped out.

Maybe I’m late to the party on this one, but I was under the impression that AI has become so advanced that anyone can make video content with ease using these tools.

I almost worry that the very idea of creating content online has become redundant, so good have AI tools become.

I seem to keep seeing articles and videos about ‘How to Make Millions on YouTube using AI’. So, I decided to Google around and find some AI that would generate images and came across DALL-E and what came next was not what I was expecting at all given all the hype!

My only relief is that it obviously has a long way to come.

Here’s How it Went:

So I thought, what if I wanted to repurpose my blog: 4 Reasons Why You Should Talk To Yourself as it might make for an interesting YouTube video and I’ll show you what I typed and what it gave me.

There is something deeply upsetting about these images. They are so inhuman. I actually feel haunted by them. I can’t explain why. I feel just the same as when I watched Black Mirror as a teen confronting unsettling Dystopias that always lead to…