Originally published at: This 1923 cartoon predicted the 2023 advent of generative AI | Boing Boing
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My all-time champ of science predictions is Murray Leinster’s 1946 story A Logic Named Joe, which comes very close to predicting personal home computers and the modern internet.
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Can’t see any ‘output’ in the blog post.
Weirdly, what they missed was that if it worked, the cartoonist would be out of a job, not going fishing…
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Unless he owned the machine, and was selling the results to someone else.
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Nonsense! Someone has to press the button to turn on the machine, right?
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That’s… not how automation works, which is what they missed.
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Yep, in this dystopian future “cartoonist” is at risk of being replaced by “prompt curator specializing in cartoon imagery”, which is a much less exciting prospect than getting paid to sit on your ass and draw all day, lemme tell you.
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Plot twist, the cartoon was generated by Stable Diffusion with the text input, “1923 style cartoon showing art being created by a machine”.
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*sighs
When the grid finally fails and society itself falls, taking with it all our cool a/f tech, there will still be artists who use whatever media they can fashion to make art.
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I suspect the reason that there were included in the post multiple references to places where this had been published (“it’s also in this book from 2013!”) was to slyly reference this possibility.
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