AI will change TV news forever

As we all know, the last few days have been filled with terrible news out of Israel and Gaza, and this news – on mainstream or social media – has been suffused with appalling pictures of cruelty, carnage and suffering. Like many, I have therefore been doing my utmost to ignore all of this, and bury my head in other tasks, lest I expire out of bleak despair.

My personal diversion has been exploring the latest evolutions of AI creativity – drawings, designs, cartoons, paintings. I am trying to discover if AI can be serviceably employed as a graphic designer, or maybe an illustrator. Unfortunately, however, even here – deep in cutting-edge computer-land – the Israel-Gaza conflict has intervened, and in ways which might say something profound for the future of news journalism, indeed the future of humanity in many fields.

Here’s the deal. My particular self-assigned task this week (as I shut down X and block out TV news) has been to play with an AI image generator called Midjourney.