A Woman Used Chatgpt To Make Strange Crochet Animals That Went Viral On Tiktok. Viewers Seized On Them As An Example Of Ai’s Failings.

Alex Woolner, one of the cofounders of the arts-advocacy group Attack Bear Press, decided to test OpenAI’s ChatGPT by asking it to generate crochet patterns. The results were illogical but many viewers thought the patterns were cute. The experiment showed the limits of the new technology, but it also showed that AI may not be a threat to artists’ jobs.