Are We Okay with “Good Enough?”
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Are We Okay with “Good Enough?”
Something that has been bothering me recently is the idea of “good enough”. By that, I mean the acquiescence we have for something being “fine” for its purpose, even though we very well know that it could be better.
Generative AI is the area where I find it most prevalent. The fact that a computer has generated something is often the reason people use it, not because it’s any good. I know many people had fun with the Studio Ghibli-inspired image generation trend a few months back, but the reason people enjoyed them was the novelty that they were generated by a computer that could make them quickly according to the prompt it had been given. When set side by side with some genuine Studio Ghibli art, the results are objectively bad. But on their own, the vague, handwaving similarities to the real art were “good enough” for a large majority of the meme-sharing public.