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I think people need to just delete the pseudo-religious term AGI from their vocabulary, honestly.
Automation is about producing things faster, better, and more efficiently. Image gen is super fast and produces pretty good quality - but it is vastly cheaper than commissioning bespoke art, and vastly faster and more accessible to the public.
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I think people need to just delete the pseudo-religious term AGI from their vocabulary, honestly.
Automation is about producing things faster, better, and more efficiently. Image gen is super fast and produces pretty good quality - but it is vastly cheaper than commissioning bespoke art, and vastly faster and more accessible to the public.
That's the real value, not "AGI". Why would you want an intelligent robot? You wouldn't. That's just a slave.
What you want is a highly efficient machine that accurately does what you tell it to do.