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The rise of AI generated content, and why it may not be so good

When I say the word AI, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Is it Cortana from Halo or Replicants from Blade Runner? The phrase "robots will take your jobs" is inferred to be a while away, but for many people, that phrase could be much closer to reality than we think. And spoiler alert: it might not be a humanoid robot that takes your place. Recently, there’s been a massive influx of AI-generated content and websites. We’ve all seen the humorous pictures from DALL-E mini (now called Craiyon) that take prompts from the user and create pictures from them, often to wild and hilarious results. These results are often in the uncanny valley, as the AI used in DALL-E mini isn’t quite good enough to make the pictures realistic, causing distorted body parts and the picture to look quite off. But DALL-E mini’s older (and original) brother, DALL-E makes many more realistic pictures with its more established algorithm.  With the hype around DALL-E, a surge of AI content gene