What’s striking about the advent of TikTok’s “AI greenscreen” is how quickly this technology is becoming widespread. The most recent cycle of development for text-to-image AI started in 2021, with the release of DALL-E by OpenAI. Less than two years later, the technology is now in the hands of millions of people via apps like TikTok.
Given the potential for both good and evil in these systems, things are just going to grow weirder from here on out.
