AI Within Threads - AI Section

From the initial responses, including my own, there is good reasoning behind consolidating AI information into its own Topic Section.

With the intent that less usage ends up in a typical Topic Section.

This is not a challenge to anybody already using the available info; many who post are quite content with sharing the information source.

My take is the information used in a Thread with many posts can become an info that has steered the thread, and is an influence on later-in-thread content. Later visitors to the thread may not read content prior to AI being introduced and 'possibly'?, influencing the thread.

Indirectly, AI 'can'?, be the content that is the influence of another's decisions being made. 

I must ask, because I am unsure. What is being stated as a necessary course of action? Is that AI is distrusted and should be isolated or that somehow AI is conceptualising something and therefore needs isolating. I would ask how?. The AI question appears often, but to be frank other than AI's current  frailties which will not last for long, I see no task

@elliottbnewcombjr - photography can be a sticky wicket there; I find AI to be quite helpful in photography; I scan film and it's great for helping to remove dust and scratches from the concert photos I've taken in the 70's. 

The best thing is that I also use the AI Remove Tool in Photoshop to get rid of mic stands, amps, and other distractions that I don't feel add anything to the compositions of the photo and are feasible to remove.

I don't claim to be a documentary photographer and will happily say I use AI for this purpose; I'm not trying to deceive anybody, just make a better looking picture of the artist I was photographing; I didn't go to shows to take pictures of mic stands and amps; it's the end result that counts with me and I've got control over what I do.  

@larsman

I take (took) a lot of photos of musicians for many years, concerts, and open mics of local nj musicians.

I never used AI, just because it wasn’t good then and I’m not interested, no ideas of right or wrong.

I used the mic stand to prefocus, then my ’bob and weave’ method, if the singer moves his head back from the mic, I move my prefocused camera forward the samee distance, when a fun or characteristic smirk occurs, bang, finish the shot.

I was using Sony’s red beam of death which helped the camera focus in low light when photographing Cassandra Wilson at the Blue Note. I thought it was infrared and she couldn’t see it. After a while, she looks at me, and says "are you allowed to do that?" I reply, "yes, no flash allowed". 

Oh my, I learned to pre-focus on the bottom of something the same distance I wanted, piano leg, stand-up bass. It helped when shooting the drummer behind others as well. 

For definite results, I used Manual Focus combined with AEL which I got good at changing shot to shot if needed.

I've used 'spot' touchup to get rid of litter, gum on sidewalks, ..., some tools you use ( for many years) in PP is a form of AI isn't it?

@elliottbnewcombjr 

Thanks for explaining what your notation means!  I did not know ...

As a more self-explanatory approach, when I post content containing AI results, I preface with something like "ChatGPT says:" and use the quotation capability.

(For those who don't know, you highlight the content and select the " control in the toolbar)

If the subject is likely to be contentious, I also quote the exact question posed.  This means anyone can replicate the process - although Large Language Models can learn as they go and vary their answers as a result.

AI can give huge productivity increases and improve readability.  Provided you identify which AI you have used, what content was AI's work, and what question was asked, I think it can legitimately be used at any point in any discussion.

No need for any form of quarantine!