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As the pendulum has shifted way (way) over to art as commerce, as a product, then AIs are plausibly useful. Why not make the 'product' more efficiently and chea
by wolverine876 3y ago
As the pendulum has shifted way (way) over to art as commerce, as a product, then AIs are plausibly useful. Why not make the 'product' more efficiently and cheaply.
But art for me is self-expression; I'm encountering another human being or I'm expressing myself. AI creating that art (really the only "art" IMHO) is a useful as an AI writing memoirs or a love letter or a condolence note.
In general perception, art always has been some mix of those two and people seem to unconsciously conflate them, to slip from one to the other. If AI - plus the current socio-political madness of dismissing all humanities, all compassion, and all humans as anything but economic devices - effectively wipes out art, what have we wrought?
What has the IT revolution, what has Silicon Valley wrought? Look at the world we are creating. And for what? So a few people can make lots of money?
- aprilthird2021 3y agoAI generation is like any tool. Once it's available to everyone, you have to do something unique with it to have something worth grabbing people's attention. If AI can illustrate and flesh out the plot of a comic book on a simple prompt, then we'll quickly get bored of those comic books. When someone takes the energy and time to create a unique plot, setting, rich characters, timely themes, etc. and then feeds that to the AI, the result will be interesting to people. People who put less effort in, will get bland, unsellable output out of an AI