Alex Kantrowitz

This was the case with the Studio Ghibli moment that OpenAI's 4.0 model kicked off.

After some initial novelty, everything eventually became Studio Ghibli.

And then the excitement faded and nobody Ghiblifies their images anymore.

AI sameness problem is perhaps most apparent in writing.

Forget the em dash, it seems like most business communication reads exactly the same these days, since much of it was written via prompt.

It's not that the public relations industry standardized its pitch format.

AI has done it for them.

I don't want to minimize how impressive this technology is.

The Sora videos are a breakthrough, demonstrating AI has some basic understanding of physics in a way that surprised even the most advanced researchers.

AI images are useful, and I often rely on them to illustrate this newsletter.

AI text generation, at least within ChatGPT, is incredibly popular and often helpful.

But for AI-generated content to achieve its potential, it's going to have to increase its variety.

And given the technology's fundamentals, that might be a tough problem to solve.

Okay, so back to NLW here.