As my readers surely know, generative AI continues to make impressive/frightening strides. Chatbots pass the Turing test with flying colors. AI-generated images, music, and videos have eerie detail and depth, providing new aesthetic possibilities as well as easy tools for propaganda and harrassment. AI can animate your old family photos, or add detail that was never there. It can generate a realistic podcast based on any document you give it. Massive data centers are springing up to handle the surging demand, boosting our electricity consumption to alarming levels. And the AI future has barely begun.
Yet there is one thing AI can’t generate … at least not yet.
This is “typewritten text” according to Midjourney:
Midjourney attempts to generate a particular typewritten word:
Meta AI gives it a shot:
Several image generators provided by Nightcafe don’t do any better. This one is atmospheric and eye-catching, but that’s not typewritten text:
This one gets a “participant” badge—not even “honorable mention”:
As for this one, uh … what?
“Cem por cento
Feito por umanos”, todas minhas máquinas são capazes de escrever isso ! Vida eterna à tiposfera.