Doug Rambles on AI Art/AI Art Saved My Sanity

Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the middle of a mountain peak in the furthest reaches humans have ever known… well, how are you reading this, exactly? Let me get back on track. Unless you haven’t heard about it, AI art is still the talk of the internet. I won’t go into details because I don’t feel like rehashing years worth of debates in what’s supposed to be a quick post, but this is the first video that I’ve seen discussing a different aspect of AI art.

I’ll admit that I’ve been remiss in watching Nostalgia Critic videos. It was my gateway YouTube drug but lately I’ve been freebasing Vinesauce. The switch coincided with my decision to head deeper into some soul searching, which eventually turned into trauma healing. It’s not that NC would have brought up memories; to use a tired phrase, the NC videos were some of the things I watched when I was going through some dark times, man. But similar to a journey that one must take to find their true selves, I kind of had to put the Critic aside for a while. And I have every intention of bingewatching when I’m ready to return.

But I feel bad about it, because I’d learned recently that Doug Walker had suffered from shingles and its effects for the past six months. Not that my words of “get well” would have surfaced in the sea of well wishes, but it feels like I should have said something at the time. All that aside, the important point here is that while he was recuperating, Doug played around with AI art and discovered a benefit that I haven’t seen brought up anywhere else.

Now, Doug is a goofy guy. You’d have to be to create and maintain a maniac like the Nostalgia Critic. But there’s an incredibly astute mind capable of nuance behind the Critic, and it came up with the fact that AI can be used for therapeutic purposes.

I won’t go any further than that, because the video is worth a watch. So go watch it already. You’ve got fifteen minutes to kill, go!

Also, I’m glad you’re doing better, Doug.

(The header I’m using was AI-generated. It’s supposed to read, “My mental health is doing much better.” And it was turned into a hashtag. I guess that intelligence is artificial for a reason.)