Summary: Generative AI for images torments users with alternating emotions of euphoria and anguish as it metes out sublime or disastrous pictures with wanton unpredictability. This makes users feel like the rat in an operant conditioning experiment, entrapping them in a ceaseless pursuit of rewards amidst sporadic punishments.
Perhaps using Midjourney should be construed more as a type of video game. Yes, you could fall off a cliff and die, only to be quickly regenerated to pursue the reward, but you also strongly believe that you can master it attain the reward.
And in fact, when you go beyond our cursory Midjourney abilities and see what the “top gamers“ are producing with it, you can see it resembles a kind of gamer community as well.
Perhaps using Midjourney should be construed more as a type of video game. Yes, you could fall off a cliff and die, only to be quickly regenerated to pursue the reward, but you also strongly believe that you can master it attain the reward.
And in fact, when you go beyond our cursory Midjourney abilities and see what the “top gamers“ are producing with it, you can see it resembles a kind of gamer community as well.