I am glad to be out of the education business as well, Ann-Christine… at least professionally.

Our tour guide said that there are rumors that they will finish the cathedral in 2026 based upon plans being made for potential celebrations, etc. We’ll see.

I can’t disagree with you, Paul. I know of several issues, the lawyer who got in trouble, the professor who asked ChatGPT if the themes students submitted were written by the program. The program lied and took full credit. No doubt some had probably used the tool, but some could prove they did not. The professor had to give everyone credit.
With Generative Fill AI in Photoshop and other similar AI tools, we are going to have the same issues in photography.
It’s up to the creator to be true to the work. I have been known to use sky replacement, for example, but I always “fess up” when I do. That’s professional integrity, something that seems to be lacking these days in many professions.
I’ve had my fun, written three posts using the tool just to see what it was all about. It’s not trustworthy enough to use it for fact checking, so I’ll be moving back to my own brand of writing (however good or bad that may be) before the end of June. 🙂

AI? Maybe I’m just being an old ‘get off my lawn’ guy but I think it’s one of the worst things since ____ (fill in the blank). It’s a tool for the plagiarist, the lazy and the unimaginative (and this is NOT meant to be a reflection on your use of AI as you were doing it as at experiment).

I first heard about it when an acquaintance told me he’d written a children’s book and then owned up to the fact that it was in fact written by ChatGPT. That told me all I needed to know.

I suppose that the response to my criticism is that it’s one of those innovations that can be a boon but is being misused. Well, maybe there are some innovations that shouldn’t be developed.

Just ask the New York attorney who relied on ChatGPT to research prior cases in a lawsuit against Avianca and found, to his dismay, that the case law cited was all bogus. Or the tech geeks who warned that AI could lead to extinction. It most certainly will lead to the extinction of some jobs.

Remember the old commercial, “Is it live, or is it Memorex?” We’re going to be returning to that question, times a thousand. Did Scotty Pippen really say that Michael Jordan was a terrible basketball player or was it AI (not Allen Iverson)? I can hardly wait till the 2024 presidential election.

Okay. I apologize for the long missive.

I don’t plan to turn my writing over to AI anytime soon, but I am intrigued by the range of abilities of this tool. Two more experiments follow on the next two Tuesdays.
Thanks for your comment!

Thank you! ChatGPT won’t replace me for long. Bear with me for a couple more Travel Tuesdays as I share some experiments with the technology. Next week, it is poetry time as I share a reworked photo. ☺️

Thanks, Amy! I think you are right about photography… good or bad. Glad I don’t have to make a living off my photos. >grin<