Differentiating between the reality of AI and exaggerated fiction can be challenging. This is why we have developed the AI Hype Index—a straightforward, quick overview of everything essential regarding the industry’s current condition.
Last year, fantasy writer Joanna Maciejewska gained widespread attention (if that’s still feasible on X) with a tweet expressing, “I desire AI to handle my laundry and dishes so I can focus on art and writing, not for AI to take over my art and writing while I manage my laundry and dishes.” It clearly resonated with the disgruntled populace.
Unfortunately, 18 months post Maciejewska’s tweet, the entertainment sector asserts that machines ought to create art while artists tend to laundry. Disney+ plans to enable its users to produce their own content using its intellectual property rather than, you know, compensating humans to create new Star Wars or Marvel films.
In other developments, it appears that AI-composed music is striking a dismally large chord with listeners, as the AI group Breaking Rust has reached the top of Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. If the audience demands AI-generated content, who are we to refuse them?
