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 We already had something that turned text prompts into art, it was called paying an artist. 
 @30b6b534 I find it quite amusing that there are now so many ML-generated images, that image-generation ML models are now trained partly with ML-generated images.
Digital incest, kinda. 
 "AI" is really the new "blockchain" in how every company is trying to hit the buzzword bingo with... 
 @30b6b534 Interestingly, Apple actively tries to avoid it. In the last WWDC keynote, 'twas nowhere to be seen, in favor of using "Machine Learning" in every part of the presentation.
Which is the more appropriate term, as there is still nothing intelligent about AI.
Also, as the German proverb says: "Lieber natürliche Dummheit als künstliche Intelligenz."